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When eCut Designer Toolkit was original conceived and released, it mainly served as a tool for users who needed to cut with a laser, knife or router. So for those who cut, it is an invaluable add-on for CorelDRAW. Yet even those of you who will never cut will find...
Loyal readers already know that the eCut macro is a powerful tool that is loved by customers as I pointed out in A Customer Loves All That eCut Designer Toolkit Does in CorelDRAW. It has recently been updated a very powerful new feature has been added. Think of the...
I spoke with a loyal reader recently who was having trouble using the right shade of color to enable cutting on a laser engraver. The answer was relatively simple and could be rectified using the Replace Wizard shown below. For more details on the process, read the...
How many times have you opened up some artwork and scaled it to a different size only to find that the outline width didn't scale with the artwork? There are a variety of ways to resolve this in CorelDRAW, though I've only found one way that is truly reliable. Even...
If you have looked into most any macro for CorelDRAW, you'll probably see a note somewhere about how that macro requires VBA. I was working with a client on a Hire The Geek session and I was asked how to test and find out if VBA was installed. While there are...
It is easy for me to tell you that a product does amazing things, but I'm sure you want to know what real users think about a product. Recently we saw more traffic on our site going to the page for eCut and discovered the source of the traffic was a post on the...
I've had many people ask over the past few years about the various Oberon macros for CorelDRAW. They had not been updated to work with CorelDRAW X6 or X7 and users wanted to know when the updates would be available. Good news, that day has arrived and new versions...
You like to get things done faster, right? You also want to present fresh new creative ideas. If you want to speed up the process, make sure to get a copy of the Design Base Automation Plug-in. It installs into CorelDRAW X3-X6 and you can get a copy completely...
Jeff Harrison has announced a number of macro updates in the last week. Below are links to each of his posts with details on the macros and the updates.Alexander Penkin's LEDTool Updated to Version 7Dizzy Shaping Updated to Version 3.3Alexander Penkin's NeonTool 7...
Some days I think back to the very first versions of CorelDRAW and all the things that could be done at that time. That was 24 years ago and fountain fills were in the first version. Then there was a big leap a few versions later when more than two colors could be...
Way back in the early days of CorelDRAW, it was a real hassle to move and/or re-order pages. With each new version, things get a little bit easier. Features like the Page Sorter makes it a snap to re-order pages by dragging and dropping. Now there is a free macro...
One of the features I use quite often in CorelDRAW is the Edit | Copy Properties From command. It does a great job of copying font, fill and outline properties from an object to other objects. Unfortunately there are many attributes that it is unable to copy....
I got a call from a customer the other day. This customer was still using CorelDRAW 7 and had been printing separations for screen printing to a printer even older. The printer was failing and the customer realized it was time to get things into the current...
Quite often users will import files directly from a digital camera into CorelDRAW. If it is just one or two photos, the file size won't be too painful. But if you bring in several of them, the file size can get massive in short order.One answer is the resample each...
How many times has someone provided you a CorelDRAW file full of text for which you didn't have the required fonts? It sure happens with a lot of files that I get. So that you don't cause this problem for others, just convert all the text to curves.OK, so that may...
For those of you who spend a good part of your day working with vector graphics in CorelDRAW, one of the tasks requiring your time is node editing. Having a macro that makes those tasks easier and faster can be incredibly valuable and that's where GDG Node...
From time to time it is important to look back at some earlier posts because something important was covered. Today we're going to look back at three valuable (and free) add-ons for CorelDRAW along with some popular posts from our Facebook page.First up is the...
Let me first get this out of the way to prevent someone asking me a question. If you do not have a full version (that includes upgrades) of CorelDRAW, it is very possible you don't have the VBA or VSTA macro language needed to run macros. So those of you who felt...
There are some questions that always come up no matter how many times I cover them in the blog. One that tends to frustrate users quite often is the inability to see thumbnails for CorelDRAW and Corel PHOTO-PAINT files. I'll go over the software that controls the...
CorelDRAW has had the ability to create process color separations for many versions now. But the ability to separate a bitmap into spot colors required a very expensive Photoshop plug-in or standalone tool. Now there is a tool that can create the spot color...
I usually find that CorelDRAW users either have a need to add dimension lines on a regular basis or they rarely if ever use them. There just isn't a middle ground on a feature like this, or at least I don't see the middle ground.Should you fall in the rarely need...
One thing you are sure to see during the holiday season is a lot of glitter. Holiday glitter isn't necessarily something you'd create with rhinestones, but they certainly give you a way to create blingy garments. Trying to layout a rhinestone pattern manually in...
Do you ever wish you could search the installed font list you see in CorelDRAW? How about discovering what fonts are already used in a document? The GDG Font Helper macro does that and more. Heck, just look at the documentation shown at right for all the things you...
When you are working in CorelDRAW, do you ever need to know the length of a line or need to measure a distance? That's where the GDG Measure It macro can come in very handy. You can even get measurement values in the document scale. Best of all, the macro is free....
