Corel CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3, EN, CD, Win32 CDGSX3IEPC User Manual

[ 18 ] Reviewer’s Guide

Brush size and shape controls: Corel PHOTO-PAINT X3 

now provides controls on the property bar that make it quick and easy for 
users to adjust brush size and shape. Users can quickly choose from many 
squared, rounded, and patterned nib shapes.

When designing logos, multipage brochures, signs, and posters, text is often 
a critical design element. CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 provides considerable 
enhancements to text formatting that give professional designers better 
layout capabilities, increased control, and more flexibility.

Text handling: CorelDRAW X3 provides significant 

improvements to text handling that make it easier for users to select, edit, 
and format text. New controls have been added for alignment, drop caps, 
tabs, bullets, and columns. For more flexibility and accuracy in design, users 
can now specify text size in inches and create hyperlinks for specific 
characters. In addition, the application works better with text from other 
sources.

Visually control the flow of text: When working with text, 

professional designers need to control text flow to achieve their desired look 
and feel. With CorelDRAW X3, the Text menu includes the new Insert 
Formatting Code menu that lets users insert specialized characters to help 
better control text flow. Users can choose from em dash, em space, en dash, 
en space, 1/4 em space, optional hyphen, non-breaking hyphen, non-
breaking space, and column/frame break. In addition, users can create custom 
optional hyphens.

Font matching: CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 gives 

designers improved font matching and more options when they work with 
files that use fonts not installed on their system. In such cases, both 
CorelDRAW and Corel PHOTO-PAINT now offer more accurate suggestions 
for replacement fonts. In addition, users can choose to save their work with 
the replacement font or with the original font.

Font selection: An element used in virtually all designs, text 

helps to tie graphics to a message. To save time for designers when choosing 
fonts, the Font list now includes a preview of each available font type.

Character Formatting docker: With CorelDRAW X3 and 

Corel PHOTO-PAINT X3, the new Character Formatting docker makes 
formatting artistic and paragraph text easier than ever before. This 
convenient new docker includes easy-to-use controls for adjusting kerning, 
changing the angle of selected characters, and applying character effects, 
such as Underline, Strike-Through, Uppercase.