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Screen Printing Graphics & Design

What's Your Best
Option?
Corel offers users more CorelDRAW
Graphics Suite purchase options:
* CorelDRAW Standard Membership:
Those purchasing a licensed box or
downloading X7 from the Internet are
eligible for the free membership that
includes access to performance and
stability updates, as well as online content accessible through Corel Connect.
* CorelDRAW Premium Membership:
This is a paid option that includes access to exclusive online content, fonts,
and new features and services when
available. Premium users also are
given automatic upgrades to the next
major version of the suite with active
premium membership.

The Font Navigator is a font manager
for the Windows operating system that helps you
ﬁnd, preview and install fonts.

* 30-Day Subscription: This option lets
you rent the full CorelDRAW Graphics
Suite X7 for 30 days.

The new Content
Exchange is an online
repository that integrates
with Corel CONNECT and the
suite's applications, making
it quick and effortless to
access and share vector ﬁlls,
bitmap ﬁlls and fountain ﬁlls
with other users.

* 365-Day Subscription: This option
lets you rent the full CorelDRAW
Graphics Suite X7 for a year, which includes all the options of the premium
membership.
To download a 30-day trial, visit corel.
com. - R.R.

The new Outline Dialog allows you
to specify the position of an outline of a path:
inside, outside and split.

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for beginners, options for illustrators and
page layout, as well as the classic workspace for those who do not want to change
from previous versions. With customizing
at your ﬁngertips, it now is easy to add or
remove buttons, tools, menu items and
dockers, thus enabling the user to spend
more time designing and less time looking
through menus to ﬁnd the necessary tools.
Premium users of the Graphic Suite X6
were presented with a ﬁrst look at the new
Font Playground, which was released to
everyone in X7. It gives users a docker for
sampling multiple instances of font styles
and options without having to clutter designs or work on various pages or documents. This makes for quicker designs by
simplifying the old workﬂow.

MORE NEW OPTIONS
Color styles also have been enhanced
with new Color Harmony rules. This

allows for quickly modifying complementary colors more easily than before.
A Hints view now indicates which objects
use a particular color style and the Page
Sorter view allows users to see how color
changes in the Harmony Editor will affect
colors across the entire document.
Outlines were given some love in X7
and users now can control outline positions of any path and specify the positioning outside or inside a path, as well as the
"legacy" way of centered on the path. This
feature alone is a huge bonus for those
who use cutters and plotters.
Object ﬁlls now are easier to apply and
customize within the Object Properties
docker. Fills now can be set to stretch, as
well as repeat and mirror. One of the best
features is the ability to specify the opacity of each color stop; the effects users
can make with a single object are endless.
Users also can share their custom ﬁlls and
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