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To Position Guidelines by
Dragging
Ensure that the rulers are
visible (View Menu Rulers)
Place the cursor in the
vertical ruler (for a
vertical guide) or the
horizontal ruler (for a
horizontal guide). The
cursor shape will change to
a white arrow when it is in
the correct position
Hold down the main mouse
button and drag on to the
page. You will see a dotted
line moving with your
cursor. Release the mouse
button when the guide is in
the correct position. The
guide will now appear as a
dotted red line
Click the main mouse button
away from the guide to
de-select it. Its colour
will change to blue
For an angled guide, place a
horizontal or vertical guide
as above, then, while the
guideline is still red,
click on the guideline
again. If the guideline is
blue, click on it to select
it and turn it red, then
click it again
Rotate handles will appear
on either end of the
guideline, with a centre of
rotation in the middle of
the guideline. The centre of
rotation can be dragged to a
new position if required in
the same way that you would
for any other object
Place the cursor over either
of the Rotation handles,
hold down the main mouse
button and drag to angle the
guideline
To Reposition a guideline
Click the guideline to be
moved – it will turn red
Drag it to a new position
If you need to position a
guideline more accurately,
drag it from the ruler as
above, and then double click
it to produce the Guidelines
Setup dialogue window. Key
in the precise horizontal
and vertical positions
relative to the current
ruler's zero point, and
specify an angle for an
angled guide.
To Delete a guideline:
Drag it back to the ruler,
or
Click once on it to turn it
red, and then press the
Delete key on the keyboard,
or
Double click it to produce
the Guidelines Setup
dialogue window, and then
click the Delete button to
delete the selected guide,
or the Clear button to
delete all of the guides
currently showing in the
Guides list box.
Using Guidelines the
Coloured Way
Using you pick tool, select
the guideline.
Go to your colour palette,
choose a colour and click.
The original guideline will
now turn the colour chosen.
This is particularly
effective when using a lot
of guidelines in your page
view. Change guidelines for
registration reasons, object
groups and images that you
want to set specific
distance or controls for. At
QuickSmart Signs we colour
our guidelines often to
represent the placement of
internal and external
lettering objects once
broken apart.
Very Handy and when used
wisely, can save many
drawing errors in your
production.
TIP: DO NOT USE CORELDRAW'S
TEXTURE FILLS! Textured
fills are suitable only for
display on your monitor.
They will not color separate
and can not be printed to an
imagesetter. If you want to
use a texture, create a
texture image in a program
such as Photoshop and import
it into your Corel file.
4 Colour ‘Rich' Blacks
Larger areas of black will
print beautifully if a "rich
black" is used. We suggest
making a new colour using
80Cyan, 00Magenta, 00Yellow,
100K(black). This will
produce a deep, lustrous
black. Make sure text is not
set to print in this four
colour black! Text or fine
line work should be left
100K only when printing for
offset style printing.
Pictures off the
internet.
We are sign printers and
must assume you own
copyright on your images
printed.
Some customers provide us
with images that have been
downloaded from the
internet, and which are
generally low resolution
images intended for screen
viewing, not printing. These
will always print out
blurry, jagged and poor.
See our Ezine's on
improving small images for
large image printing.
Photoshop
Photoshop duotones, tritones
and quadtones to be printed
as part of a CMYK document
must be saved as CMYK first,
otherwise they will
reproduce as greyscale
pictures. This conversion
will strip all duo-, tri-
and quadtone information for
the file, so make sure you
have a backup copy.
How To Supply Material On
Disk
• When you supply material
on disk for output, please
supply only files relevant
to the job or jobs. Remove
all others.
• Please put all files
required to output a
particular job in one
folder. Don't use separate
folders for graphics.
The
reason for this is that when
you copy the job from your
computer to your removable
disk, you break the link
established between your
layout file and associated
graphics files. If
these elements are in
different folders, we have
to re-establish those links.
If those links are in a
number of separate folders,
and if there are files on
the disk that are not
relevant to the job, this
can be a time-consuming
process with potential for
error.
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