Saving Your Drawings

Saving drawings

CorelDRAW drawings are saved to the CorelDRAW file format (CDR) by default and are compatible with the latest version of the application. You can save a drawing so that it is compatible with an earlier version of CorelDRAW Graphics Suite. This is especially useful if you want to use the drawing in Corel R.A.V.E. You can also save a drawing to other vector file formats as well. If you want to use a drawing in another application, you must save it to a file format that is supported by that application.

In the application, A drawing can also be saved as a template, allowing you to create other drawings with the same properties.

 

The CorelDRAW program allows you to assign notes, keywords, and thumbnails to drawings so that you can find them more easily. If your drawing will be used on the Internet, you can have the application automatically replace spaces in the filename with underscores, to prevent potential display problems. If your drawing will be viewed on a system that does not have all of the fonts used in the drawing, you can embed all fonts to ensure that text will appear as originally created.

To save a drawing

Click on File

Click on Save as.

Type a filename in the File name list box.

Locate the folder where you want to save the file.

Choose a version from the Version list box If you want the drawing to be compatible with a previous version of CorelDRAW

From the file format from the file type list box If you want to save the drawing to a vector file format other than CorelDRAW (CDR).

Click on Options and then specify the settings you want

click  on Save.

·         To save a drawing to a previous version of CorelDRAW, this may result in loss of certain effects that were not available in the previous version of the application.

·         If you want to save changes made to a previously saved drawing,

click on File

click on cSave

To save only a selected objects

Select the objects.

Click on File

Click on Save as. Click on Options.

Enable the Selected only check box.               

Locate the folder where you want to save the file.

Type a filename in the File name list box.

Click on Save.

Closing Drawings

To Close one drawing, Click On File  and Select Close

To Close all open drawings, Click on File and Select Close all

Quitting CorelDRAW

You close  one or all open drawings at any time before quitting CorelDRAW.

Click on File, Select Exit.