October 2000 - Corel Solution Partners Newsletter
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CorelDRAW®10 for Windows has been added to the CSP software order form
CorelDRAW® 10 - available to all CSP members
CorelDRAW® 10 Graphics Suite (full version) is now available for shipping to all CSP Platinum & Paradox members at "No Charge".
All Platinum & Paradox members interested in receiving this product should email their request to partners@corel.com
Also, all Standard CSP members can purchase CorelDRAW® 10 by completing the online CSP Software Order Form.
CorelDRAW® 10 Graphics Suite - What's New!
On Screen Look and Feel
- Customization - All the commands available in the applications can be displayed in a single list in the Options dialog box, allowing you to customize the menus, toolbox, toolbars, and status bar all at once. You can also drag-and-drop menu items from the menu to a property bar or to another menu by holding down the ALT key.
- Common Workspace - The toolbox and all of the menus and property bars have been revisited so that icons and tool placement matches throughout the applications.
- Export/Import Workspace - You can export your customized workspace, or portions of it, and share it with others. Also included is a built-in option to export your customized workspace to email.
Productivity and performance
- Undo Docker - A new Undo Docker window, similar to the one found in Corel PHOTO-PAINT® keeps track of all the actions you perform, so that you can undo multiple actions in one step or save a series of actions as a Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications script.
- Real Time Preview - You can now preview formatting options and effects before applying them to your document using RealTime Preview. You can scroll through and preview formatting options and effects, such as fitting text to a path, and see how they affect the active object or document.
- Presets - Many of the interactive tools now come with presets that let you view and apply predefined settings for those tools quickly and easily.
- Page Sorter View - The new Page Sorter lets you view thumbnails of all the pages in a document. The Page Sorter has drag-and-drop functionality that allows you to reorder and manage pages in their document. You can also reorder pages by using the page tabs located at the bottom of the workspace.
Tools
- Perfect Shapes - The addition of PerfectShapes lets you save time when creating complex objects by giving users a library of ready-made objects in a variety of useful categories, such as arrows, stars, callouts, and flowchart shapes.
- Interactive Contour Tool - You can now contour an object or group of objects, as well as control the object acceleration and color acceleration of a contour.
- Knife Tool and Eraser Tool - The Knife tool and Eraser tool have been enhanced, so you can now use these tools on bitmapped images as well as on vector graphics.
- Interactive Distortion Tool - Change the shape of an object by manipulating the object's nodes and you can now apply distortions to paragraph frames to achieve interesting text effects.
- Interactive Extrude Tool - New drag-and-drop functionality you drag colors from the color palette to any of the extruded surfaces and to the bevel. You can also extrude a single object from within a group of objects, or extrude all the objects in the group.
Text Handling
- Multilingual Text - CorelDRAW® 10 now supports text in multiple languages within the same text box, letting you create and correct multilingual documents without having to change the language of the writing tools.
- Format Text Dialog - The Format Text dialog box has been changed to reflect the use of styles and to make it easier to recognize formatting options working at a character level versus a paragraph level.
- Selecting and Editing Text - The text cursor now flashes when text is being edited, and there is no longer a white box surrounding text that is being edited.
- Quick Correct - Type Assist has been replaced with QuickCorrect, which uses the Corel WordPerfect® libraries.
Web Features
- Roll Overs - Create rollover graphics, known as Web Buttons from the Object Properties Docker window, the Internet toolbar, or the Effects menu. Each Web Button can have up to four different states (Normal, Down, Over, and Out) that react to the viewer's mouse actions.
- Export to HTML (Dialog) - The Publish To The Web feature has been enhanced to give you more control over the resulting graphics and HTML code.
- Image Optimizer - Corel Image Optimizer helps you reduce the file size of an image, letting you save bandwidth for faster downloading of Web pages. Image Optimizer lets you see four separate, live previews of possible export modes or other image variations before sending an image to the Internet.
- Web Connector Docker - The new Web Connector Docker window lets you browse the World Wide Web right from the application This lets you connect to Corel's community Web site for graphic designers at http://www.designer.com/ on the Internet without leaving the application.
- HTML Preflight - A Preflight tab has been added to the Publish To the Web dialog, saving you time by providing preflight warnings that will alert you to potential problems prior to publishing to the World Wide Web.
Color, Printing and PDF
- Color Management - A completely redesigned UI makes color management more intuitive by combining all the essential color management options in one redesigned dialog box. You can now take advantage of the predefined color management styles, or save your own color management profiles.
- Publish to PDF - You can now embed an ICC color profile, author and keyword information, and embed any type of file into a PDF file. Fountain fills and Mesh fills are now exported as native PDF 1.3 objects, resulting in smaller file sizes and faster and more accurate rendering.
- Color Sliders - New color sliders have been added to the Color Docker window that work with all the standard color models as well as with Web-safe colors.
- Print separations - You can now specify the order of color separations and can align all printers' marks to the edge of a graphic or to the edge of a page.
- In-RIP Trapping - You can streamline your workflow by specifying trapping parameters in advance with a full range of In-RIP trapping options for PostScript® 3 output devices.
Supporting Applications
- Bitstream Font Navigator 4.0 - Bitstream Font Navigator 4.0 offers a quick and easy way to find and install fonts, organize fonts into manageable groups, and view and print font samples.
- Canto Cumulus Desktop LE 5.0 - Canto Cumulus Desktop LE 5.0 organizes media and graphics files into a catalog, which can be indexed so that you can find images, designs, clipart, stock photos, and Apple QuickTime movies quickly and easily.
- Corel TEXTURE 10 - Corel TEXTURE® lets you simulate natural textures, such as clouds, marble, and wood, by combining up to seven user-defined material layers.
- CorelTRACE 10 - CorelTRACE® 10 is a bitmap-to-vector tracing utility that converts bitmapped images to vector images.
- Corel Capture 10 - Corel CAPTURE® 10 lets you capture on-screen computer images and record on-screen actions as animation files. You can capture images of an entire screen, individual windows, toolbars, flyouts, menus, or any rectangular, elliptical, or freehand area the user defines.
Comdex - November 13-17, 2000 - Las Vegas, Nevada
The Corel Solution Partners Program (CSP) invites all its members and customers to join us (FREE) at the world's most comprehensive technology event
taking place in Las Vegas, Nevada starting November 13th. Come on out to Booth #LN235 to see demonstrations of CorelDRAW® 10 Graphics Suite and
other Corel products. And, if you're attending the Linux Business Expo, be sure to drop by
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Developer TIPS
PerfectScript macro which controls temp files.
Here is a PerfectScript macro written in Corel WordPerfect® 9 that will help
control the the build up of temp files in the Temporary directory.
The build up of these files can lead to a problem with printing and
Corel WordPerfect® crashing. This code can be plugged into almost any macro or a
template macro. It will delete any temp files that are not in use.
* Macro: CleanTemp.wcm
* Purpose: Clear out temp files
* Date Created: November 8, 2000
* Date Last Modified: November 8, 2000
*/
// Turn the error state off and when an error occurs have it jump to the
label lblJump
Error (State:Off!)
OnError (Label:lblJump)
// Get the temp directory
Global vTemporaryFolder = EnvVariableGet (EnvVariableName:"Temp")
// Find all files in the temp directory and attempt to delete them
vFilename = FILEFIND(vTemporaryFolder+ "\*.*"; Normal!; 1)
DeleteFile (Filename:vFileName; Prompts:NoPrompts!)
WHILE(vFilename != "")
Label(lblJump)
vFilename = FILEFIND(""; ; 1)
DeleteFile (Filename:vFileName; Prompts:NoPrompts!)
EndWhile
//Turn the Error state back on
Error(On!)
Corel Paradox® : utilizing OPAL to create Toolbars
The following example creates two Toolbars using the create method (the Edit and File Toolbars).
method pushButton (var eventInfo Event)
var
tbEdit Toolbar
tbFile Toolbar
endvar
; Create a Toolbar named "Edit" with 3 buttons: Cut, Copy,and Paste
if tbEdit.create("Edit")then
tbEdit.addButton(ToolbarEditCluster, ToolbarButtonPush,
MenuEditCut, BitmapEditCut, "Cut")
tbEdit.addButton(ToolbarEditCluster, ToolbarButtonPush,
MenuEditCopy, BitmapEditCopy, "Copy")
tbEdit.addButton(ToolbarEditCluster, ToolbarButtonPush,
MenuEditPaste, BitmapEditPaste, "Paste")
endif
; Create another toolbar "File"
if tbFile.create("File") then
tbFile.addButton(ToolbarFileCluster, ToolbarButtonPush,
MenuTableOpen, BitmapOpenTable, "Open Table")
tbFile.addButton(ToolbarFileCluster, ToolbarButtonPush,
MenuFormOpen, BitmapOpenForm, "Open Form")
tbFile.addButton(ToolbarFileCluster, ToolbarButtonPush,
MenuReportOpen, BitmapOpenReport, "Open Report")
endif
endMethod
Corel Paradox® : utilizing OPAL to playing sound files
Corel Paradox® 7-9 for Windows® 95/NT
The 32-bit counterpart to MMSYSTEM.DLL is WINMM.DLL with its
function PlaySound. The syntax is as follows:
PlaySound( WaveFileName CPTR, How CWORD, Flag CWORD)
The "WaveFileName" must contain the complete path and
name for the .WAV file, "How" is set to 0, and "Flag" can
be set to several settings as follows:
0 ;Play synchronously
1 ;play asynchronously
2 ;silence
4 ;points to memory file
8 ; loop the sound until next
16 ;don't stop any currently playing
8192 ;don't wait if driver busy
1114112 ;alias is a predefined ID
131072 ;name is a file name
16388 ;name is a resource name
64 ; purge non-static events for task
128 ;look for application specific
Here is an example of WINMM.DLL in use:
Uses WINMM
PlaySound(WavFileName CPTR, how CWORD, flag CWORD)
endUses
;//NOTE: Function names in the Uses block are case-sensitive
method pushButton(var eventInfo Event)
PlaySound("c:\\Windows\\Media\\Ding.wav",0,0)
endMethod
If you would like to see specific examples of other Perfectscript macros or OPAL coding, please email
partners@corel.com
with the details.
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