CorelDRAW 8 for Windows

CorelDRAW 8 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide is for anyone who wants or needs to create graphics with CorelDRAW. This hands-on guide takes a straightforward, visual approach that enables even those with little past drawing experience to get up and running quickly. New CorelDRAW users will find the step-by-step instructions easy to follow and fun, and readers with some CorelDRAW experience will benefit from the explanations of important new features. Special tips, techniques, and undocumented secrets will enable all users to create professional effects quickly with less effort. All of the book's numerous illustrations are created using CorelDRAW. Readers can learn to duplicate the effects and graphics that appear throughout the book.

Table of contents :

Chapter 1: The Basics

Chapter 2: Startup

Chapter 3: Rectangles and Ellipses

Chapter 4: Select, Move, and Size

Chapter 5: Polygons, Stars, and Spirals

Chapter 6: Nodes and Paths

Chapter 7: Lines and Curves

Chapter 8: Page and Document Setup

Chapter 9: Tools for Precision

Chapter 10: Color and Fills

Chapter 11: Working with Text

Chapter 12: Fun with Text

Chapter 13: Layers

Chapter 14: Transformations

Chapter 15: Special Effects

Chapter 16: Symbols, Clipart, and Bitmaps

Chapter 17: CorelDraw 8 and the Web

Chapter 18: Printing

Appendix A: Fonts & Clipart in this Book

Appendix B: The CorelDraw 8 Graphics Suite

Index