Starting and Opening CorelDRAW

How to Start or Lunch CorelDRAW

·         Click Start

·         Point to All programs

·         Click on CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3

·         CorelDRAW X3.

Starting and opening drawings

 The CorelDRAW application allows you start a new drawing from a blank page, from a template, or from an existing drawing, a blank page gives you the freedom to specify every aspect of a drawing, that is you are starting your work from scratch.

A template provides you with a starting point and leaves the rest amount of customization up to you. The following templates are included with CorelDRAW under the following categories:

• Full page

• Label

• Envelope

• Side-fold

• Web

Starting a new drawing base on an existing drawing allows you to reuse objects and page settings. The program allows you to open existing drawings, saved in various file formats. However, you may not be able to open certain files, depending on their file type and contents. In such cases, you can try importing the files as objects in an open drawing.

If the drawing you are opening contains an embedded International Color Consortium® (ICC) profile, you can extract and save the profile. You can also preserve a drawing’s layers and pages.

If the drawing you are opening is from an earlier version of CorelDRAW and contains text in a language different from the language of your operating system, you can choose code page settings to ensure that text is converted into Unicode® characters properly. Code page settings help you correctly display text outside the drawing window, such as keywords, file names, and text entries in the Object manager and Object data manager dockers. To display text correctly in the drawing window, you need to use encoding settings.

How to Start a Drawing from template

Click on File

Select New from template

Click on the tab that corresponds to the template category that you want

Select a the template you want

How to Start Drawing from a scratch.

Click on File

Click on New

You can now start drawing what you want.

When you start a drawing from a blank page, the drawing is based on the default CorelDRAW template (CorelDRAW.cdt).

Tips: You can specify a layout style (template) by clicking Layout `Page setup, clicking Layout in the list of categories, and choosing a layout style from the Layout list box.