Corel X4 Help needed

[Shawn Handley]

... nevermind. LOL.. I found it.

[Gary Hair]

Glad we could help :cool:

[Shawn Handley]

LOL!

Ok, now I have a real question that just popped into my head. Most of us use the upper left corner of our machines as a zero point (starting point, etc). Is there a way to take my multi layer project and make it so the top corner of the drawn project is in the upper left corner of the page setup/layout?

[Larry Bratton]

Align and Distribute? That function under Arrange will allow you to move to Top/Left. I use that a good bit to get my work in that upper left page position. I have my page size set to the table size-36x24 for the EXT.

[Shawn Handley]

As an example, I tried that and took a couple screen shots. This one shows that the objects within the outer object move as well. I do not want that.

http://i419.photobucket.com/albums/pp280/Shandleyman/Engraving/CorelAlignment01.jpg http://i419.photobucket.com/albums/pp280/Shandleyman/Engraving/CorelAlignment02.jpg

[Larry Bratton]

You didn't make a Group of them before you moved them, subsequently they moved as individual objects. Select them all, then go to Arrange/Group (Cntl G), then move the group to the upper left

[Mike Null]

Orr make a group and position to upper left then use arrange, lock object.

[Shawn Handley]

That's SUPER! Thanks so much!


Now that I have you, perhaps you can tell me how to set up a default colour.
IE: I want to always use black (real black, not that brownish default black colour). I do not use any sort of colour mapping (yet) and I always forget to change the colour to good ole black.

[Larry Bratton]

That's SUPER! Thanks so much!


Now that I have you, perhaps you can tell me how to set up a default colour.
IE: I want to always use black (real black, not that brownish default black colour). I do not use any sort of colour mapping (yet) and I always forget to change the colour to good ole black.
Shawn, I'm still on X3. X4 may be different, so I'll pass on that one. Maybe Mike can answer. I am not totally sure of your question either. You should always be using RGB colors though if your looking to do color mapping. Are talking about your line color?

[Mike Null]

Your Epilog book should give you instructions on how to set up your rgb palette but for default colors you can simply open a blank page in Corel, right click on the color you want to be a default outline color or left click on a fill color. This will call up a flyout which will ask if you want to make certain items default. Select what you want.