CorelDRAW 9 : The Official Guide

• Set up page layouts, manipulate text, and shape objects
  
• Manipulate images, add layers, and use extrusion tools
  
• Create extraordinary bitmap effects within CorelDRAW
  
• Take advantage of the new Preflight feature that warns you if your file contains Printing errors
  
• Use the IXLA Digital Camera interface and import images from the most popular digital cameras
  
• Create realistic shadows with the new Interactive Drop Shadow tool
  
• Create complex gradient fills with the new Mesh Fill tool
  
• Achieve spectacular special effects with DRAW 9's filters and plug-ins
  
• Maximize the multiple on-screen color palettes
  
• Publish on the Web using DRAW 9's advanced PDF and HTML support

About the authors
Foster D. Coburn, III began using Ventura Publisher 1.0 to produce
a programming magazine while attending the University
of Kansas back in the 1980s. He also started his own little
company, Smart Typesetting, to produce various projects
for clients.

As Smart Typesetting grew, a product called
CorelDRAW 1.0 came along and did some incredible
things that Ventura couldn't do. Soon Foster was doing
a lot of work using this wonderful new package.

Along the way, he created some little shareware utilities and even helped create some
fonts for inclusion in Microsoft's TrueType Font Pack 2. Then in 1993 the writing bug
caught hold, and he created CorelDRAW! 4 Unleashed.

That first book led Smart Typesetting to morph into the current Unleashed
Productions, Inc. Foster and Pete teamed up to put on CorelDRAW seminars throughout
the United States and even at a few international destinations. Foster also co-authored
three more books, CorelDRAW 5 Unleashed, CorelDRAW 6 Unleashed and CorelDRAW
7: The Official Guide.

The books and seminars led to a videotape series on CorelDRAW and Corel PHOTO-
PAINT for versions 6, 7 and 8 and a version 9 series should be available by the time you
read this. In addition to the one-day seminars, Unleashed Productions now conducts
three-day Boot Camps for those who want to learn CorelDRAW inside and out.

Unleashed Productions continued to grow in 1999. A utility, EZ Metrics, was
created to aid CorelDRAW users in making technical illustrations. You'll find a working
demo version of the product on the CD in this book. They also began selling a series of
multimedia CD-ROMs and doing Web design for a number of clients. The biggest
growth has been at the companies Web site (http://www.unleash.com) which has
grown to be a terrific resource for anyone creating graphics, especially with
CorelDRAW and Corel PHOTO-PAINT.

Peter McCormick became involved with art and
computers relatively late in life. At age 40 he discovered a
latent talent for painting on canvas. This discovery
eventually led him to the world of computer art. In 1992, at
age 53, he discovered computers and CorelDRAW. It was
love at first byte. He entered Corel's World Design contest
that first year and was awarded Grand Prize in the
Landmarks division for an image called Venice. That image
appeared on the August 1992 cover of PC Magazine
following the contest.