Spraying images in CorelDraw vs. Photo-PAINT

This is a powerful feature in both CorelDraw and Photo-PAINT.

When it comes to having the sprayed images follow a path, they work quite differently. If rotation relative to a path is important to you, CorelDraw is the faster way.

In Photo-PAINT, it's possible to call up cells based on "direction". The Mad Scientist in me has painstakingly created Spraylists for Photo-PAINT to force it to work. The pain was in making a macro to help simplify the process. There needs to be 359 cells to represent each degree of rotation. It's possible to skip a degree or 2, and you'll end up with less cells. But you'll also lose these angles.

In the chain example below, the Photo-PAINT example was based on only 2 cells.

The technical overhead for sprayed images in Photo-PAINT is less, since they are combined with the object/layer as they are sprayed. In CorelDRAW, each image is separate. However, you can modify the Curve in CorelDRAW and the items will update. You can see there are advantages to each method.

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You've probably seen warnings in the past in older version of Reader that suggest some elements may not display properly when you load newer generation PDF's.

I'd never thought too much of it, but here is a case of what the difference can look like. Obviously, this is a critical difference...

Handy Acronyms

AFAICT, not everyone knows acronyms.

BTW, FYI (and FME) they can speed up your messages.

Sure, you might be ROFL at all this, but OTOH, IMHO they are great!

FWIW, there are some FAQ's out there about these. The only way to get 'em down is to RTFM.

See the attached PDF, and print it. Then learn 'em. Kids of all ages will be amazed at your knowledge of this new "interweb". ROFL

HTH, but... YMMV!

TTFN

J (AKA Jeff)


HandyAcronyms.pdf

Cool macro for text-editing fans

This new macro allows you to adjust all kinds of text spacings using shortcut keys.