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| CorelDRAW X5 : Finding and Saving Important Characters |
| Picture (Pi) fonts, also called Symbols, are terrific for embellishing design work, but locating a specific character within a Pi font isn’t straightforward because your keyboard has letters and not very many symbols; no two font designers agree on a specific mapping for symbol sets, although occasionally there is a progression as you type across your keyboard. |
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| CorelDRAW X5 : Typography Rules and Conventions - Finding the Font You Need |
| In this age of online transactions, you might find it hard to simply walk into a store and ask a knowledgeable person for a specific font. This is not a problem; fonts are small enough in file size to be downloaded in seconds, you can find the font you need in scores of places, and CorelDRAW X5 has a feature that makes it a snap to identify a font you want to own. |
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| CorelDRAW X5 : Typography Rules and Conventions - Font Families and Font Styles |
| When beginning a project, it’s usually best to cruise the Installed Fonts drop-down list in CorelDRAW, see what you think is an appropriate typeface choice, find fonts that work harmoniously if you need more than one typeface in the design, and then, if you’re drawing a blank, check out the typefaces you own but have not installed |
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| CorelDRAW X5 : Text and Styles |
| You can create styles for artistic and paragraph text in CorelDRAW. Styles store the text attributes from one object and can be used to apply those attributes to other objects at a later time in the same document. |
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| CorelDRAW X5 : Wrapping Text Around Other Shapes |
| Grouped objects will accept Contour Straddle, but not all complex objects will. For example, if you want to straddle text around a blend group, group the blend objects first, or the Wrap Paragraph Text option will be dimmed. |
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| CorelDraw X5 : Getting Artistic with Text - Formatting Paragraph Text |
| Stepping inside the frame and column formatting of paragraph text, CorelDRAW has extensive options for specifying how lines of text look compared with one another, how tightly characters and words are spaced, and how you want individual paragraphs to separate from each other. |
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