CorelDRAW X5 The Official Guide part 43 doc

To create artistic text, you choose the Text tool and then click an insertion point in your document.. You can change the default to anything you like: with the Text tool selected, you c

● To install a font from the upper-left pane, drag the font name into the Installed Fonts pane, or right-click the font name and then choose Install Font

● To create a font group, right-click in the Font Groups pane, and then choose New Group (the menu command is File | New Font Group) A new folder icon appears with its default name highlighted, ready for you to type a name for the group Organization here is key; you might like to create groups by the name of an assignment so you can

install and uninstall them as the occasion calls for it Megatronics Presentation, Birthday Cards, Truck Signage are examples of group names…you get the idea Alternatively, you might want to create groups by types of fonts: Headlines, Body Text, Unusual, Picture Fonts will help you sort out the fonts you need quite quickly To

add fonts you choose to a new group, drag their names into a group from the catalog

in the upper-left pane To install and uninstall groups of fonts, right-click the folder icon to show these options

The illustration below shows the Font Navigator interface; a font in the Catalog is being dragged into the Installed Fonts list, and immediately Windows is updated and the font’s ready

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You might have a problem viewing OpenType previews using FontNav in Windows 7 64x If this creates a workflow problem, try the freeware NexusFont previewing and cataloguing utility at http://xiles.net/programs/, thanks to Junghoon Nog, who accepts donations for his work at his site!

Choose a location

to browse a folder

containing fonts.

Font Groups

Installed Fonts

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Looking Up a Font

You have a wealth of font choices on the CorelDRAW disc, and now you know how to preview

them using Font Navigator So what if you’re looking for a font you’ve seen used in a layout

or advertisement and you don’t own it and you don’t even know its name?

An invaluable resource for font finding and purchasing is MyFonts.com, probably the

largest clearinghouse for type foundries ranging from large such as Linotype and Bitstream

to cottage-industry independent font authors A new feature in CorelDRAW is an URL on

the Text menu called WhatTheFont?!—to use it, you need an active Internet connection and

an understanding of how this command works

WhatTheFont (part of MyFonts.com’s site) is an automated utility that intelligently matches a

bitmap of a sample of text to a best guess at what the name of the font is Like any software,

WhatTheFont (WTF) is “intelligent” up to a point, and your best chance of finding, for

example, the font used on a wedding invitation, is to make sure that the bitmap you have

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of the invitation has the characters neatly spread apart and that the bitmap is of a pixel resolution large enough for WhatTheFont to clearly “see” the outlines of the characters in the bitmap Also have sufficient blank space surrounding the text so that WhatTheFont isn’t confused with surrounding text and graphics Consider using Corel PHOTO-PAINT to edit the bitmap before using the WhatTheFont?! command in CorelDRAW

Here is a working example of how to use WhatTheFont to find out what a specific font used on an invitation is called so it can be purchased:

1. Start a new document (press Ctrl+N) In the Create A New Document dialog, set the

page size to Letter, but also set the Rendering Resolution to 96 dpi—this is screen

resolution and CorelDRAW’s WhatTheFont?! command captures an image of the font you want to discover at screen resolution Click OK to create the new page

2. With the Pick tool chosen, specify Pixels from the Units drop-down list on the property bar

3. There is an maximum area size that WhatTheFont?! can accept for capturing the text: 400,000 pixels combined maximum width times height, so first, pressZ

(Zoom tool) and then choose 100% viewing resolution on the property bar Now your screen resolution matches your page resolution

With the Rectangle tool, drag a rectangle on the page that’s 800 pixels wide and

500 pixels tall This area measures the maximum size recommended by WTF of 400,000 pixels

4. PressCTRL+Ito import the bitmap containing the mystery text, locate it in the Import dialog, click Import after you select the file, and then click-drag the loaded cursor so the placed bitmap falls within the rectangle you put on the page Resize the bitmap

by dragging a corner handle with the Pick tool if necessary If the imported bitmap doesn’t have an 8×5 orientation, you can resize the rectangle, but you need to use Windows Calculator or another utility to recalculate the proportions Calculating 400,000 divided by the width in pixels will give you the ideal height, and vice versa Delete the rectangle when your imported bitmap text is scaled to accommodate WTF’s recommendation

5. Choose Text | WhatTheFont?!

6. Your cursor actually has tiny text that explains what to do now; you drag a box with your cursor to highlight the text you want to send to WhatTheFont In Figure 13-4, you can see the bitmap at top, and what your screen looks like after you’ve click-dragged to define an area around the text If you make a mistake, reset by clicking outside of the box you defined, and then click-drag the crosshair cursor again

7. After you click inside the box, WhatTheFont on the Web guides you through any

help it might need to identify the typeface, as shown in Figure 13-5 At left you can

see that this automated routine occasionally asks you for help identifying characters;

for example, 1’s and exclamation marks are sometimes mistaken for each another

8. Once you’ve scrolled to the bottom of the characters you captured, click Continue

As you can see, WhatTheFont offers a number of foundries for Beesknees, the font

used in the invitation

Font Foundries

Digital typeface files can be broken down into two parts: the information about the

characters themselves—the vector outlines that are pure artistic design work—and the

coding that allows the characters to run as a small application, so you can type using a font

Copyright issues concerning the ownership of a typeface can also be broken into two parts:

what the font looks like and who owns the name It might sound weird, but you will find

several different names for what essentially looks like the same font, because the design of

characters in a digital typeface isn’t copyrighted, but the brand name is

This strange legality can easily confuse a consumer: for the most part, the Bitstream

typefaces on the CorelDRAW CD are trademarked by Bitstream; their names are clear and

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FIGURE 13-4 Click-drag around the text you want to send to WhatTheFont as a bitmap copy

400,000 pixels maximum size

forthright and easy to look up in any traditional typeface specimen book or on the Web You’ll also see the same font name distributed or owned by different foundries and vendors In this case, such as with Clarendon, the original character designs were sold as physical artwork ages ago, and several digital foundries traced off the characters, usually embellishing them with their unique style Almost all the time, if you didn’t own Clarendon and wanted to buy it, the smart thing to do would be to shop around and buy the best-priced version of Clarendon However, a foundry such as Bitstream might have licensed both the design of the font and its name to a different vendor; in this case, Bitstream still offers the typeface, using its original character designs, but offers it using a nonstandard, unique font name This is why WhatTheFont?! is an invaluable CorelDRAW menu command—you might own a typeface but not recognize the unique name! For example, Exotc 350 on the CorelDRAW install disc has a different industry standard name: Peignot Use Font Navigator and WhatTheFont to explore what you own; your personal type case might be better stocked with workaday classic fonts than you imagine

FIGURE 13-5 WhatTheFont identifies a typeface you have in a bitmap version of an invitation

or other printed material

Finding Fonts on the Web

For a specific assignment, you might want to shop for a fresh, unusual typeface The

following URLs are reputable places where you can buy or download for free some

interesting typefaces whose themes run from staples (basic fonts you can’t live without)

to retro to novelty to “goth”:

● Linotype Library www.linotype.com/

● ITC www.itcfonts.com/fonts/

● Bitstream www.bitstream.com/

● URW www.urwpp.de/deutsch/home.html

● Monotype www.monotypefonts.com/

Also, clearinghouses for fonts are the distributors and only occasionally the creators:

● The Font Bureau www.fontbureau.com/

● Adobe Systems www.adobe.com

● MyFonts www.myfonts.com/, probably the largest distributor

Smaller type shops also offer quality, refreshing selections:

● Acid Fonts (www.acidfonts.com) The collection is uneven; you may need

to do some sifting to find quality typefaces you find useful, but you can’t beat

the price, and Acid Fonts is one of the largest repositories of free and

shareware typefaces on the Web (about 4,700 free fonts)

● Harold’s Fonts (www.haroldsfonts.com/) Harold Lohner advertises that he

vends “homemade fonts,” but they’re actually clean and professional in every

regard Harold offers over 100 free fonts including fonts designed to look like

famous product logos

● Stu’s Font Diner (www.fontdiner.com) Stu offers all retro fonts and has

free downloads of some very nice pieces

● 1,001 Fonts (www.1001fonts.com/) Another clearinghouse for free and

shareware typefaces Quality is uneven, but overall a very handsome collection

● Dieter Steffman’s Font Repository (http://moorstation.org/typoasis/

designers/steffmann/index.htm) A collection of excellent freeware

ornamental, unusual, and Blackletter-style fonts designed by a professional

font craftsman

The Last Word on Accessing Installed Fonts

Depending on the programs you’ve used before working with CorelDRAW, accessing the fonts you’ve installed might or might not feel familiar The steps to follow are a brief guide

to getting the most out of all the fonts you’ve installed for your design work Although working with text is covered in detail in chapters to come, you might like a jump start so you can get right down to business with that job that was due five minutes ago!

The Text tool (F8), accessed from the toolbox (the icon with the A), operates in two

different modes: Artistic Text and Paragraph Text Artistic text is usually the best choice for brief headlines Selecting, manipulating, and otherwise editing artistic text is accomplished differently than with paragraph text Paragraph text is intended for typesetting long blocks of text (a short story, an instruction manual) and has different properties than artistic text, explained in Chapter 14

To create artistic text, you choose the Text tool and then click an insertion point in your document Then you type By default, the font you use is Arial 24 point, No justification, which, by default, is justified to the left You can change the default to anything you like: with the Text tool selected, you choose the font, point size, and justification on the property bar, and CorelDRAW displays a Text Attributes box Here you can redefine artistic and paragraph text for all future default documents

A point is a typographic term, a measurement of the height of text Traditionally, there are 72.27 points to the inch, but with the advent of digital fonts, this measurement has been modified to 72 points to the inch Because typefaces are designed by hundreds of different professionals, the actual size of, for example, 24 point Arial is not necessarily the same size as 24 point Palatino It’s always a good idea to measure the height of text cast in different fonts using rulers in CorelDRAW to ensure consistency Usually, paragraph text is set in anywhere from 9 to 14 points (except for aspirin labels, which seem to be set in 2 point type), while fonts used in headlines look best at 24 points to

72 points on a page that measures standard letter 8.5×11".

Paragraph text is entered the same way as artistic text and in the same way as most other Windows applications, but you define paragraph text by marquee-dragging a frame into which paragraph text flows Marquee-dragging is accomplished by click-holding the primary mouse button and then dragging diagonally; top left to bottom right is the most common technique Then you release the mouse button, a frame appears, and you type in the frame (or paste from the Clipboard when you have copied text)

● To change the font and the point size of the font after you’ve entered text, you select either artistic or paragraph text with the Pick tool, and then choose a different font and point size from the property bar The Text tool can also be used to select and change the font of the text

● To change a single character in text you’ve typed, you highlight only that character

and then use the drop-down lists on the property bar to make the change(s) The property bar lists installed fonts alphabetically, with their names shown in the font style itself as a convenient preview method A font family is listed on the flyout for

a font name on the list; you click the triangle and then choose a family member

Single-member fonts have no little triangle to the right of their name The following illustration shows two lines of text being edited to change family members Additionally,

at the top of the fonts list are the most recently used fonts, a handy way to access the same font in a document you’re continuing from two hours ago

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Finding and Saving Important Characters

Picture (Pi) fonts, also called Symbols, are terrific for embellishing design work, but

locating a specific character within a Pi font isn’t straightforward because your keyboard has

letters and not very many symbols; no two font designers agree on a specific mapping for

symbol sets, although occasionally there is a progression as you type across your keyboard

For example, some picture-font designers code an upper-left ornamental frame corner as

“a”, the upper-right frame corner as “s”—if the users are intuitive enough, they can type

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Indicates a font family

across the left end of the second row (a-s-d-f) on the keyboard to make a sequentially correct four-corner picture frame from such a symbol font

Using the Insert Character Docker

CorelDRAW, via Text | Insert Symbol Character (CTRL+F11), removes the guesswork in locating a character or symbol in any font you have installed When you choose this

command, the Insert Character docker appears, and you have two ways to insert a character:

● As text If you need, for example, a fancy bullet that is inline in existing text in your document, you place the Text tool cursor at the location in the text where you want the character, click the character on the docker to select it, and then you click the Insert button (or double-click the thumbnail of the character) You might not always want to choose this method; the advantages are that the character is editable text and stays aligned to the text that comes before it and after it However, the disadvantage is that as a designer, you might want to move this ornamental character around on the page—but as inline text, the inserted character is bound to the line of text you added it to

● As a collection of editable shapes To add a character to your document as a shape you can immediately edit with the Shape tool, you first select the Pick tool instead of the Text tool Then you drag the thumbnail of the symbol you want onto the page It’s easy to spot the difference between an inserted Symbol on a page and a Symbol added as a shape: shapes have a default black outline and no fill, so they’re easy to single out in a document The disadvantage to adding a Symbol as a shape is that you can’t edit it with the Text tool, but overall, you have an endless supply of special characters at your cursor tip with the Insert Character docker, so mistakenly adding the type of symbol you don’t want to a document is corrected in a flash

Figure 13-6 shows the process of adding a Symbol to a document by dragging a thumbnail into the document; you locate the installed font from which you want a symbol

by using the drop-down list at the top of the docker, set the size of the symbol at the bottom (a symbol can be resized at any time in the future by scaling it with the Pick tool), and then drag and drop Notice in the enlarged inset graphic in this figure that the Insert Symbol docker provides you with the extended character key combination for the symbol you’ve clicked This feature is a great help if you’re coming to CorelDRAW from a word processor such as WordPerfect You might already be familiar with certain extended character codes; for example, standard font coding for a cents sign (¢) is to holdALT,then type 0162.

Therefore, for any font you’ve chosen on the Insert Symbol docker, if the font has a cents

sign and you want to choose it quickly, you type 0162 in the Keystroke field, pressENTER, and the docker immediately highlights the symbol—it’s easy to locate and equally easy to then add to the document Conversely, when you click a symbol, the Keystroke field tells you what the keystroke is; you can then access a cents sign, a copyright symbol, or any other

extended character you like in any application outside of CorelDRAW You just holdALT

and then type the four-digit keycode in, for example, WordPerfect or Microsoft Word, and

you’re home free

Using the Symbol Manager

Now that you’ve located the perfect symbol for a design by using the Insert Character

docker, it would be nice to save the symbol so you can reuse it in the future instead of

hunting for it again! This is where the Symbol Manager (CTRL+F3) under Window | Dockers

is an invaluable resource The Symbol Manager provides you with information about

symbols contained and saved only to a document you have open and also provides User

Symbols, an area on the Symbol Manager where you can duplicate a catalogued symbol into

any document at any time

Let’s say you’ve found a great symbol for a layout, you’ve placed it in your document,

and you decide you want to reuse it tomorrow Here are the steps for cataloguing the symbol

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FIGURE 13-6 The Insert Character docker is your ticket to quickly looking up and adding

special extended characters to your designs