Friday, May 30, 2008
wOxxOm Color Swatch This awesome macro scans for colors in the document and makes swatches at the bottom.
Shelby's PowerClips 2 Bitmaps Macro
Shelby's PowerClips 2 Bitmaps Shelby & Jeff put together this handy macro that can force PowerClips in your document to bitmaps. This can reduce CorelDRAW file size significantly, and simplify complex files during production. PowerClips become WYSIWYG!
Jeff's Text to Curves Macro
I have a handy macro for forcing all text to curves. Useful to run before sending certain jobs as PDF's for proofing/printing.
Hendrik's Character Count Macro
Hendrik has created a macro that counts characters in either the entire page, or some selected text.
Monday, May 19, 2008
My first CorelDRAW video on YouTube
Last week, someone told me that there is this new site called "YouTube".... :-)
OK, Just kidding. Yep, I've known about YouTube for a loooooong time.
Regardless, here is my first video.
OK, Just kidding. Yep, I've known about YouTube for a loooooong time.
Regardless, here is my first video.
Creating borders for bitmaps
Shelby has created a macro that creates borders around selected bitmaps. Go get it!
A better text docker for CorelDRAW X3
Sancho Text Docker for X3 is here!
Finally, an improved text docker for those who are running CorelDRAW X3.
Finally, an improved text docker for those who are running CorelDRAW X3.
Sunday, May 4, 2008
Pics from the North
This isn't CorelDRAW related, but some of you might be interested in where I was recently.
A little place called Kugluktuk.
I was up there as a musician for a special event. Here are some pics:
A little place called Kugluktuk.
I was up there as a musician for a special event. Here are some pics:
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Copying Charts from Excel to CorelDRAW
During the X4 beta process, Valdas Vilutis astounded many of us with a hidden feature in Excel. For nearly a decade, many of us have been pasting sub-optimal EMF files from Excel. He knew of a way to get vector charts out of Excel with much more accurate curves. How?
Follow along...
Follow along...


