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Print MergePrint Merge gives you the design and business opportunities to merge database information with specific fields of your CorelDRAW documents at print time, to print personalized

This is a comprehensive list covering specific issues ranging from mismatched layout sizes to spot colors with similar names Use the check box options in the list to activate or deactivate each option, or use the “Don’t check for this issue in the future” option, located at the bottom of the Issues tab of the Print Options dialog when an issue is discovered

Corel’s Duplexing Wizard

You can create booklets and other double-sided printed documents on your personal printer

by using the Duplexing Wizard You can access this feature independently of CorelDRAW

by choosing Start | All Programs | Corel Graphics Suite | Duplexing Wizard, or by pressing

CTRL+Dwhile in Print Preview

This wizard is fairly self-explanatory and straightforward to use When a driver is set to use the duplex printing feature, the Manual Double-Sided Printing dialog displays when CorelDRAW’s print engine starts to print, asking whether you want to print on both sides of

a printed page For specific page-insertion directions, you’ll find an option that will print an instruction sheet to show you which way you should reinsert the sheet of paper after printing the first side

The Duplexing Wizard is not intended for use with a PostScript printer.

FIGURE 27-12 Preflight options let you control how and when detected printing issues appear

Using the Collect for Output Wizard

CorelDRAW provides a wizard that collects all the information, fonts, and files required to

display and print your documents correctly if you don’t own an image setter or other

high-end output device and need to shigh-end your document to press

Corel has a service bureau affiliate program, and service bureaus approved by Corel can

provide you with a profile to prepare your document with the Collect for Output Wizard

This profile can also contain special instructions that a service bureau needs you to follow

before sending your files Check with your vendor to see whether it is a Corel Approved

Service Bureau (CASB) If it’s not, and your printing need is a do-or-die situation, it’s easy

to use File | Export Choose PDF-Adobe Portable Document Format (*.PDF) from the

Export Save As Type down list, and then choose Prepress from the PDF Preset

drop-down list in the PDF Settings dialog box The PDF file is usually accepted by commercial

press places and the results can be quite good

To launch the wizard, choose File | Collect for Output From there, the wizard guides

you through a series of question-and-answer pages that gather the information you need to

upload or put on a disk to deliver to a printer or service bureau When you finish the process,

all necessary files are copied to a folder you define, and optional documents specifying your

required output are included, depending on your wizard option choices Figure 27-13 shows

the succession of wizard dialogs from the beginning to the end of the process At the end,

CorelDRAW offers a final screen with a summary; click Finish

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FIGURE 27-13 In five steps your files are prepared for sending to a service bureau

Print Merge

Print Merge gives you the design and business opportunities to merge database information with specific fields of your CorelDRAW documents at print time, to print personalized documents with only a click or two If you create mailing labels, short runs targeted at a specific audience, and marketing documents, this feature will be invaluable By creating special fields, you can merge specific database information into your document and set properties such as color, font style, and so on This feature also lets you use ODBC Data Sources from database management systems that use Structured Query Language (SQL) as a standard

Follow these steps when you need to create a Print Merge:

1. Choose File | Print Merge | Create/Load Merge Fields Choosing this command opens the Print Merge Wizard, and you either create a database from scratch or choose an existing one

2. If you need to create a custom merge document, choose the Create New Text option and then click Next Create fields for your custom database by entering unique names in the Text Field and/or Numeric Field, shown in Figure 27-14, and then click the Add button As you build your field list, you can change the order of the fields

by clicking to highlight a field in the Field Name list, and then clicking the Move Up

FIGURE 27-14 Create your custom database fields by typing in the Text and/or Numeric Field

box and then click Add

and Move Down buttons You can also edit the fields you’ve created by using the

Rename and Delete buttons to change or remove a selected field Choose the

Incremental Field Data option while a field is selected in the list to number each

entry in the field automatically If you need numeric data, enter the value in the

Numeric Field; when this option is used, new fields display, letting you specify the

numeric sequence of your data and formatting You can also choose the “Continually

increment the numeric field” box to save time making your field entries Once your

list is created, click Next to proceed

3. The next page of the wizard, shown in Figure 27-15, gets you right into building

your database by entering values to build sets of field entries To begin a new entry,

click the New button, and then fill in the fields with the appropriate data; click the

spreadsheet-like box to highlight it, and then type your entry You can quickly revise

an entire field by highlighting it and then pressingDELETEorBACKSPACE To delete

an entire record, make sure it is the only one with a check to the left of it, and then

click the Delete button Browse your database entries using the navigation buttons,

or search for specific entries by clicking the Find button Once your database is

complete, click Next to proceed

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FIGURE 27-15 Use this page of the wizard to begin building your field entry sets

Show multiple or single records.

Add record Delete record

Click to enter data in field.

Select record to delete.

Find

4. The final wizard page is where you save your database to reuse and update in the future Choose the Save Data Settings As box, and then browse your hard drive for a location to save the file in Windows Rich Text Format, Plain Text, or File With A Comma Used As A Delimiter (CSV Files) You probably also want to save the incremental field data to make looking up a record easier in the future Click Finish

to exit the wizard and automatically open the Print Merge toolbar, shown here If you are still running Windows XP, you must navigate to a folder to be able to save your database You’ll receive an error telling you that CorelDRAW failed to save the print merge data if you don’t “spell out” the save path for CorelDRAW

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5. By default, the toolbar opens with your newly created database open and the individual fields it includes listed in the Field selector To load your fields from a different database, click the Create/Load Print Merge Fields button to relaunch the Print Merge Wizard

6. By inserting fields, you’re creating a link from entries in your database to insertion points in your document To insert a field into your document, make a selection from the Field selector, and then click the Insert button Use the cursor to define an insertion point in your document with a single click As you insert a field, a code appears in your document with the name of the field bracketed, such as <Street Address> Repeat your insertion procedure for each field you want to include in your print merge operation

7. The print merge fields can be formatted as artistic text, so you can apply any properties associated with artistic text to the field text to format it as you would like

it to appear when printed This includes color, alignment, font, size, style, and so on Fields can be inserted as stand-alone text objects, inserted into paragraph text, or simply typed using the same code format

Create/Load Print Merge Fields

Merge Date to New Document

Perform Print Merge

Field selector

Edit Print Merge Fields

Insert Selected Print Merge Field

8. Once your fields have been placed and formatted, the print merge document is all

set up, and you might want to click the Merge To New Document button to proof

the different pages with the data entered When it comes to merging your printed

document with the Print Merge feature, use the Print button on the Print Merge

toolbar If you simply pressCTRL+P, CorelDRAW will prompt you to choose to

Perform Print Merge, or to Print As A Template Alternatively, choose File | Print

Merge | Perform Merge Doing so immediately opens the Print dialog, where you

proceed with printing using your print option selections

9. Finally, if you want to import text from a file or ODBC database, you must do this

by first opening up a new document, or by closing a merge document, reopening it,

and choosing File | Print Merge | Create | Load Merge Fields

This chapter has shown you where the print options are for both PostScript and

non-PostScript output, how to check for errors and correct them before you send your CorelDRAW

file to an output device, and how to make your work portable so someone with more expensive

equipment than mere mortals own can print your work to magazine quality But this is only

half the story of CorelDRAW output Take a trip to the following chapter, where output for the

Web is explored; you’ll want companion pieces up on your website in addition to printed

material Regardless of whether you put dots of ink on a page or broadcast pixels to a screen

10,000 miles away, today it’s called publishing your work.

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Basic HTML Page Layout

and Publishing

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Whether it’s for personal pleasure or selling your wares, the Web connects your ideas with your business and social contacts It’s far less expensive than other publication

media such as television and print, and the really great thing about it is that it’s hot You

don’t have to be a rocket scientist to get media up on your website using CorelDRAW, and once you’ve designed a piece for print, it’s practically ready to go on the Web Create once, publish many times!

In this chapter you learn about the many tools and features at your disposal in CorelDRAW for optimizing your work for the Web, and about how to create special web

graphics such as rollover buttons that turn your art into interactive art.

Download and extract all the files from the Chapter28.zip archive to follow the tutorials in this chapter.

Web Page Navigation Buttons and Hotspots

What makes the Web a web are the links that connect pages to other pages The World Wide Web is engineered by connecting this bit of this page to that bit of that page on the same

site—or on any other website in the world The engine that performs all this interconnecting

magic is actually the text-based hyperlink Although text-based hyperlinks are the foundation

of the Web, text links by themselves aren’t very visually attractive, and the links themselves often are just a bunch of letters and numbers that mean something to a computer, but mean nothing to a human

However, if you put a graphic face on a link—perhaps one that changes as a visitor

hovers over or clicks it—you have a web page that speaks well of your artistic skills You also get a chance to provide nonverbal communication, the sort that plays to a worldwide audience, many of whom might not speak your native tongue With a graphic, you can clearly point out that Area X is a link and not part of your text message Using a graphic also gives you the opportunity to provide a visual clue about where the link goes How about the humble shopping cart icon? A great many people in this world now know that clicking a shopping cart button takes them to a page that has something to do with buying something That’s a pretty all-encompassing message using only a few pixels

Creating and applying attractive, well-thought-out navigational aids to a web page are a must in the competitive online marketplace The following sections take a look at how you can combine CorelDRAW’s tools with your input and ingenuity to create web pages worth a thousand words

CorelDRAW’s Internet Toolbar

You’ll find that several web tools and resources are located throughout CorelDRAW, but

the central location for many of these resources is the Internet toolbar Here’s a look at the

toolbar; you choose Window | Toolbars | Internet, or right-click any visible toolbar and then

choose Internet from the pop-up menu The buttons on this toolbar are dimmed unless you

have an object or two on the current drawing page; now is a good time to create a few

button-shaped graphics for tutorial steps you can follow a little later

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From the Internet toolbar, you can apply web-specific properties to objects, such as

hyperlinks, rollover effects, and image maps Hyperlinks are links to existing web pages (or

to bookmark links applied to objects in your CorelDRAW document) Rollovers are objects

that can change their appearance and perform an event in response to a user’s cursor action

over the object Image maps are objects that have one or more linked areas to web page

destinations Rollovers are unique object types (that this chapter shows you how to make);

however, hyperlinks can be applied to any single object or to specific characters in a

paragraph text object

Arial, Verdana, Times New Roman, and several other typefaces are web compatible;

when CorelDRAW exports these fonts—when you use them as paragraph text on a page—they will appear as editable text in the audience’s browser Be sure to click the Make Text Web Compatible button before exporting your HTML; otherwise CorelDRAW will export the text as a bitmap graphic, as you’ll see when you get to the Images tab while exporting See “Web Text Options” later in this chapter.

The Internet toolbar provides a convenient hub for applying nearly all web object properties

Many of these properties can also be found and applied elsewhere in CorelDRAW, but it’s more

convenient to use the toolbar Making your graphics actually perform the duties you’ve assigned

to them (by applying web properties) requires that a matching piece of HTML code is added to

the web page HTML CorelDRAW will write this code for you when you export your Corel

document You will need to provide the HTML along with the graphic to your client or to the

webmaster to make the interactive graphics you’ve created do what they’re supposed to do In the

sections to follow, you’ll learn what options are available, and where to find them

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Create

Rollover

Edit Rollover Extract All Objects

from Rollover

Finish Editing Rollover

Live Preview

of Rollovers

Active Rollover State

Duplicates State

Deletes Rollover State

Hotspot

Rollover Options

Behavior

Show Hotspots (toggle)

Make Text Web Compatible

Export HTML Internet

Address

Target Frame

ALT Comments