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Recently I had someone come to me wanting to know how to create a "split front" design. The best way to describe this is by using a baseball jersey as an example. On the front of the jersey is a large logo for the team it represents. But baseball jerseys button up the middle so you have to cut the logo in half. In some cases, this may require a slight bit of overlap as well. I'm going to show you two possible solutions, though I think you'll see one is clearly superior.
With either solution, we have a little setup to do first. You'll need to place at least one guideline, maybe two. If there is no overlap, just place a single vertical guideline where the split should occur. For situations with an overlap, you'll want two vertical guidelines to delineate each of the cuts. So that the guidelines will be useful, turn on Snap to Guidelines. You can either do that by clicking the icon on the Property Bar or by selecting View | Snap to Guidelines.
Now we need to draw a rectangle. Make sure the rectangle surrounds the entire right "half" of your artwork. With one guideline, you'll snap the left edge to that. With two guidelines, go to the leftmost guideline. Now we're going to make another rectangle. Grab the right center handle of the first rectangle and drag it across the entire drawing so that it now covers the left half of the artwork. Before releasing the left mouse button, tap the right mouse button to make a duplicate. For those with one guideline, you're done. If you have two guidelines, stretch the right edge to the rightmost guideline.
Now we have to check to make sure one of the defaults is turned off. By default, you can select unfilled rectangles by clicking in the middle of them. I've met one or two people who love this feature and hundreds who absolutely hate it. Make sure you have nothing selected in your drawing. The next to the last icon on the Property Bar has the pop-up help labeled "Treat as Filled." Make sure that this icon is not depressed or you won't be able to select your artwork. The image below shows the file all prepared for splitting.
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Select the artwork and place a copy on the clipboard by clicking Ctrl-C or by selecting Edit | Copy. Since we will be clipping it twice, we'll need another full-sized copy for the second clip.
Now for the part that is specific to PowerClip. Everything so far will also apply if you use the Trim solution. Make sure the logo artwork is selected and then select Effects | Powerclip | Place Inside Container. When you do this a big black arrow will appear on screen. Using this arrow, click on the right-side rectangle. You should see that only half of the artwork is now visible. Paste the original artwork from the clipboard using Ctrl-V or Edit | Paste. Repeat the PowerClip procedure and select the left rectangle. When done, delete the rectangles.
The downside to this solution is that the artwork does not show in Wireframe mode. It will export just fine to any of the major file formats. Just remember to export each piece separately.
For our second solution, you'll need to repeat all but the last part of the first solution. Note that this solution will only work in CorelDRAW 8 and higher. Make sure the artwork is grouped and does not contain any effect groups such as Contour, Blend, etc. This will also only work on vector artwork. For those who are using two guidelines, you'll want to size your rectangles to the nearest guideline. This will leave a gap between the guidelines that isn't covered by either rectangle.
When you Trim, the first object or objects you select is what does the cutting. The last item selected is what gets cut. So click on the right rectangle and then Shift-click on the artwork. Thus, the artwork is the last thing selected. With both of them still selected, click the Trim icon on the Property Bar. Bingo, halfway there. Paste the other artwork from the clipboard and repeat the Trim process using the left rectangle. Delete the rectangles and you're all finished.
The benefit is that you can see the artwork in Wireframe view and you could also make other changes since the artwork has truly been cut in half. The image below shows the finished result of Trimming.
If you use the Contour feature, you've probably seen that it can leave a little to be desired. Occasionally an area of the Contour will be flat when instead it should be curved. This doesn't happen often, in fact I was unable to recreate the problem so that I could show you. The good news is that Contour has been improved in CorelDRAW 10. So simply open files created in previous versions and re-apply the Contour. If you had some of those flat spots before, they will be corrected.
One of the greatest things about CorelDRAW is that there are typically multiple ways to achieve the same effect. You've seen with this project that there are two ways to easily do what we wanted. There are other ways, but they aren't nearly as easy. If you find that you get stuck on the Trim function because it isn't available, you most likely have something in your artwork that can't be trimmed. Remember you can't have groups named after effects. In earlier versions, you'll use Arrange | Separate to fix this. In CorelDRAW 10 the solution is Arrange | Break Apart.
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