Corel CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X6, Lic, 2501-5000u, UPG, ML LCCDGSX6MLUGJ User Manual
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LCCDGSX6MLUGJ
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Design with style and creativity
With its dramatically improved styles engine,
new Object Styles docker, new Color Styles
implementation, new Color Harmony
functionality, and content-ready picture frames,
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X6 helps you focus on
bringing your unique sense of style and creativity
to your designs.
New!
Styles engine and docker:
The
completely revamped styles engine introduces a
new Object Styles docker that simplifies the
creation, application, and management of styles.
A style is a set of properties that governs the
appearance of objects in your document.
CorelDRAW X6 also introduces new Style Sets,
which are groups of styles that make it easier to
have consistent formatting across multiple
objects, produce iterative versions, and apply
formatting with speed and consistency.
You can use Style Sets to quickly modify objects that
share formatting attributes.
You can create and apply Styles and Style Sets to
graphic objects, artistic and paragraph text,
callout and dimension objects, and objects
created with Artistic Media tools. For example,
you can define an outline style by specifying
attributes such as outline width, color, and line
type. For text objects, you can define a character
style by specifying font type, font style and size,
text color, background color, character position,
caps and more.
With Style Sets, you can combine multiple styles,
which lets you combine properties from different
types of styles at the same time. For example, you
could use a Style Set to define fill and outline
properties for a graphic object, or you could define
character and paragraph styles to set the
appearance of paragraph text. This makes it faster
and easier to later adjust those properties, which is
especially convenient for creating iterative designs.
You can also create child styles or child style sets
that retain some but not all of the properties in
the parent style or parent style set. This is
particularly useful when working with long
documents. For example, you could assign a
parent character style for headings and a child
character style for subheadings.
New!
Color Styles:
The new Color Styles docker
lets you add the colors used in a document as
color styles, which makes it easier than ever before
to implement a color change throughout a project.
To create a color style from an object, you simply
drag the object onto the Color Styles docker. If you
apply that color style to other objects, you can
quickly change the color and have it instantly
applied to all objects linked to it.
In addition, you can break the link between an
object and its color style at any time, so that you
can then edit the object independently. Plus, you
can also convert color styles to different color
modes or to spot colors to prepare your
document for production printing.