Copy sizes from one shape to many others

This FREE macro allows you to do it!

Swapping colors inside Fountain Fills

This FREE Macro allows you to swap the locations of the color swatches on Fountain Fill "swatch lines". For linear fills, you can simply drag the line in the opposite direction. For other types, this macro makes it easy.

Television, newspapers, and the media in general are not "public services"

This surprises too many people IMO....

My bro worked at a TV station as creative director, had 8 artists under him. Schools would occasionally bring kids on "field trips" to the TV station.

He asked the kids: "Who's our customers?"

Kids: "WE'RE your customers."

My bro would would pinch them back into reality and state: "NO. YOU are the product. Our customers are... The Advertisers."

The kids become puzzled and queasy, realizing that their attention span up until now, and for the rest of their lives has been and will be sold to others.

Moral: Television shows only are a necessary evil for TV stations, used only as bait to lure humans of all ages into staring at a TV screen - for as long as possible. That's why television ratings are so important to manufacturers/retailers/Networks. They determine advertising rates.

Newspapers & magazines have readership.

Web sites have unique impressions & hits.

The radio has listeners.

The point of this post: media is paid for by the developers of goods and services. Their goal is for you to exchange your money for something you perceive to be of equal or greater value.

As a CorelDRAW user, a large part of your purpose for using the software might be to build persuasive media that entices people to do just that.

Some artists feel nauseous in assisting others into inequitable level of wealth & comfort... others feel liberated realizing that this environment of trade is possible for anyone who has the initiative to pursue their dreams.

As a designer, how do you feel about the purpose of media, and are you comfortable in your role for participating in it?

Attachments Grayed-out in Outlook Express?

Here's a GIF movie that shows the option you need to un-check in order to to access attachments.

Note: CDR's and PDF's are both considered "suspicious".

In order for us to get work done, you'll need to email these types of files from time to time. Your recipients need to be able to access them too!

Click on the image to see the animation.

Here's a GIF movie that shows what you need to do to access attachments.

Shelby's SuperStitch is here!

Superstitch by Shelby may be the macro solution you've been missing! It prevents overlapping lines on geometric shapes.

Excellent solution for filling shapes with semi-transparent tiles

This macro allows quick use of any shapes (including complex vector elements and/or bitmaps) as fills for other shapes.

For the first time in CorelDRAW, complete transparency is supported within a tiling mechanism for fantastic results (including merge modes.)

You can also easily layer different tiles or shapes within the same shape you're filling.

This 4 minute video shows a few possibilities...

Palette Link Professional

About 4 months ago, I wondered if it was possible to have any specific palette open and close with a document. I checked with MacroMonster Shelby, and he made it happen!

This macro allows you to have existing palettes linked to specific CorelDRAW files, so they open & close with them!

Watch the short movie at the site to see palettes automatically open and close with a document.

You can use any palettes you like; the built-in ones or your own custom ones.

Live Fillet macro.. many updates!

This macro made by Shelby allows for live results of Fillets, Scallops, & Chamfers - all new updated features!!!

Basically it's a new product... if your one of the many customers who bought the earlier version, you get the updated version for free!

Go to the site to see the short video...

How to post perfect CorelDRAW.com forum images (screenshots)

If you visit CorelDRAW.com's forums for assistance, you may find it convenient to post a portion of a screenshot in order for others to see what you're writing about.

Read the guide below to ensure your images look great and are of optimal file size.

forum-pics.zip

To attach your exported image to your post, press the options tab in the forum's posting software.

Invalid Argument

I get this error a few times a year on trying to open CorelDRAW files.

Tip: after rebooting my system, the file opened. So keep that in mind! :-D

Breakfast Cereals - Off topic

I love breakfast... I can't even think of a time where I've skipped it!

Here are some of my favorites... lately for fun I've been trying some really old cereals that are close to being bird seed. Sunny Boy, for example, hasn't changed since 1929.

I think it's kind of cool to try such primitive food. It's really close to just walking into a field and eating wheat/flax/rye etc. Hey, millions of cattle can't be wrong! They seem to be able to build enormous protein from eating these plants! LOL...

Of course, I always top my cereals with cut up fruit.

Ways to hide a dotted line - for pattern making

open the file, and check it out.

Pattern.zip

How to simulate a logo on anything

Many folks who are in the promotional products industry use CorelDRAW. They frequently need to put logos on items in order to give customer a proof. Or, just an idea of what their logo would look like on an item.

This training shows many techniques I use in order to do that.

CorelDRAW X4 shortcut keys list

A user named Jack Ross took some time to compile a list of shortcut keys. CorelDRAW has been able to export the list for some time, but often it imported poorly into Excel. So, he had to do some tweaking.

I reformatted it to 8.5 x 11, and put in some gridlines. Then I created a PDF for you, so you don't even need Excel at all.

CorelDrawX4_Shortcuts.pdf