This is a comprehensive list covering specific issues ranging from mismatched layout sizes to spot colors with similar names. Use the check box options in the list to activate or deactivate each option, or use the “Don’t check for this issue in the future” option, located at the bottom of the Issues tab of the Print Options dialog when an issue is discovered. Corel’s Duplexing Wizard You can create booklets and other double-sided printed documents on your personal printer by using the Duplexing Wizard. You can access this feature independently of CorelDRAW by choosing Start | All Programs | Corel Graphics Suite | Duplexing Wizard, or by pressing CTRL+D while in Print Preview. This wizard is fairly self-explanatory and straightforward to use. When a driver is set to use the duplex printing feature, the Manual Double-Sided Printing dialog displays when CorelDRAW’s print engine starts to print, asking whether you want to print on both sides of a printed page. For specific page-insertion directions, you’ll find an option that will print an instruction sheet to show you which way you should reinsert the sheet of paper after printing the first side. The Duplexing Wizard is not intended for use with a PostScript printer. 884 CorelDRAW X5 The Official Guide FIGURE 27-12 Preflight options let you control how and when detected printing issues appear. Using the Collect for Output Wizard CorelDRAW provides a wizard that collects all the information, fonts, and files required to display and print your documents correctly if you don’t own an image setter or other high- end output device and need to send your document to press. Corel has a service bureau affiliate program, and service bureaus approved by Corel can provide you with a profile to prepare your document with the Collect for Output Wizard. This profile can also contain special instructions that a service bureau needs you to follow before sending your files. Check with your vendor to see whether it is a Corel Approved Service Bureau (CASB). If it’s not, and your printing need is a do-or-die situation, it’s easy to use File | Export. Choose PDF-Adobe Portable Document Format (*.PDF) from the Export Save As Type drop-down list, and then choose Prepress from the PDF Preset drop- down list in the PDF Settings dialog box. The PDF file is usually accepted by commercial press places and the results can be quite good. To launch the wizard, choose File | Collect for Output. From there, the wizard guides you through a series of question-and-answer pages that gather the information you need to upload or put on a disk to deliver to a printer or service bureau. When you finish the process, all necessary files are copied to a folder you define, and optional documents specifying your required output are included, depending on your wizard option choices. Figure 27-13 shows the succession of wizard dialogs from the beginning to the end of the process. At the end, CorelDRAW offers a final screen with a summary; click Finish. CHAPTER 27: Printing: Professional Output 885 27 FIGURE 27-13 In five steps your files are prepared for sending to a service bureau. 12 3 4 5 Print Merge Print Merge gives you the design and business opportunities to merge database information with specific fields of your CorelDRAW documents at print time, to print personalized documents with only a click or two. If you create mailing labels, short runs targeted at a specific audience, and marketing documents, this feature will be invaluable. By creating special fields, you can merge specific database information into your document and set properties such as color, font style, and so on. This feature also lets you use ODBC Data Sources from database management systems that use Structured Query Language (SQL) as a standard. Follow these steps when you need to create a Print Merge: 1. Choose File | Print Merge | Create/Load Merge Fields. Choosing this command opens the Print Merge Wizard, and you either create a database from scratch or choose an existing one. 2. If you need to create a custom merge document, choose the Create New Text option and then click Next. Create fields for your custom database by entering unique names in the Text Field and/or Numeric Field, shown in Figure 27-14, and then click the Add button. As you build your field list, you can change the order of the fields by clicking to highlight a field in the Field Name list, and then clicking the Move Up 886 CorelDRAW X5 The Official Guide FIGURE 27-14 Create your custom database fields by typing in the Text and/or Numeric Field box and then click Add. and Move Down buttons. You can also edit the fields you’ve created by using the Rename and Delete buttons to change or remove a selected field. Choose the Incremental Field Data option while a field is selected in the list to number each entry in the field automatically. If you need numeric data, enter the value in the Numeric Field; when this option is used, new fields display, letting you specify the numeric sequence of your data and formatting. You can also choose the “Continually increment the numeric field” box to save time making your field entries. Once your list is created, click Next to proceed. 3. The next page of the wizard, shown in Figure 27-15, gets you right into building your database by entering values to build sets of field entries. To begin a new entry, click the New button, and then fill in the fields with the appropriate data; click the spreadsheet-like box to highlight it, and then type your entry. You can quickly revise an entire field by highlighting it and then pressing DELETE or BACKSPACE. To delete an entire record, make sure it is the only one with a check to the left of it, and then click the Delete button. Browse your database entries using the navigation buttons, or search for specific entries by clicking the Find button. Once your database is complete, click Next to proceed. CHAPTER 27: Printing: Professional Output 887 27 FIGURE 27-15 Use this page of the wizard to begin building your field entry sets. Show multiple or single records. Add record Delete record Click to enter data in field. Select record to delete. Find 4. The final wizard page is where you save your database to reuse and update in the future. Choose the Save Data Settings As box, and then browse your hard drive for a location to save the file in Windows Rich Text Format, Plain Text, or File With A Comma Used As A Delimiter (CSV Files). You probably also want to save the incremental field data to make looking up a record easier in the future. Click Finish to exit the wizard and automatically open the Print Merge toolbar, shown here. If you are still running Windows XP, you must navigate to a folder to be able to save your database. You’ll receive an error telling you that CorelDRAW failed to save the print merge data if you don’t “spell out” the save path for CorelDRAW. Ill 27-12 5. By default, the toolbar opens with your newly created database open and the individual fields it includes listed in the Field selector. To load your fields from a different database, click the Create/Load Print Merge Fields button to relaunch the Print Merge Wizard. 6. By inserting fields, you’re creating a link from entries in your database to insertion points in your document. To insert a field into your document, make a selection from the Field selector, and then click the Insert button. Use the cursor to define an insertion point in your document with a single click. As you insert a field, a code appears in your document with the name of the field bracketed, such as <Street Address>. Repeat your insertion procedure for each field you want to include in your print merge operation. 7. The print merge fields can be formatted as artistic text, so you can apply any properties associated with artistic text to the field text to format it as you would like it to appear when printed. This includes color, alignment, font, size, style, and so on. Fields can be inserted as stand-alone text objects, inserted into paragraph text, or simply typed using the same code format. 888 CorelDRAW X5 The Official Guide Create/Load Print Merge Fields Merge Date to New Document Perform Print Merge Field selector Edit Print Merge Fields Insert Selected Print Merge Field 8. Once your fields have been placed and formatted, the print merge document is all set up, and you might want to click the Merge To New Document button to proof the different pages with the data entered. When it comes to merging your printed document with the Print Merge feature, use the Print button on the Print Merge toolbar. If you simply press CTRL+P, CorelDRAW will prompt you to choose to Perform Print Merge, or to Print As A Template. Alternatively, choose File | Print Merge | Perform Merge. Doing so immediately opens the Print dialog, where you proceed with printing using your print option selections. 9. Finally, if you want to import text from a file or ODBC database, you must do this by first opening up a new document, or by closing a merge document, reopening it, and choosing File | Print Merge | Create | Load Merge Fields. This chapter has shown you where the print options are for both PostScript and non- PostScript output, how to check for errors and correct them before you send your CorelDRAW file to an output device, and how to make your work portable so someone with more expensive equipment than mere mortals own can print your work to magazine quality. But this is only half the story of CorelDRAW output. Take a trip to the following chapter, where output for the Web is explored; you’ll want companion pieces up on your website in addition to printed material. Regardless of whether you put dots of ink on a page or broadcast pixels to a screen 10,000 miles away, today it’s called publishing your work. CHAPTER 27: Printing: Professional Output 889 27 This page intentionally left blank CHAPTER 28 Basic HTML Page Layout and Publishing 891 W hether it’s for personal pleasure or selling your wares, the Web connects your ideas with your business and social contacts. It’s far less expensive than other publication media such as television and print, and the really great thing about it is that it’s hot. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to get media up on your website using CorelDRAW, and once you’ve designed a piece for print, it’s practically ready to go on the Web. Create once, publish many times! In this chapter you learn about the many tools and features at your disposal in CorelDRAW for optimizing your work for the Web, and about how to create special web graphics such as rollover buttons that turn your art into interactive art. Download and extract all the files from the Chapter28.zip archive to follow the tutorials in this chapter. Web Page Navigation Buttons and Hotspots What makes the Web a web are the links that connect pages to other pages. The World Wide Web is engineered by connecting this bit of this page to that bit of that page on the same site—or on any other website in the world. The engine that performs all this interconnecting magic is actually the text-based hyperlink. Although text-based hyperlinks are the foundation of the Web, text links by themselves aren’t very visually attractive, and the links themselves often are just a bunch of letters and numbers that mean something to a computer, but mean nothing to a human. However, if you put a graphic face on a link—perhaps one that changes as a visitor hovers over or clicks it—you have a web page that speaks well of your artistic skills. You also get a chance to provide nonverbal communication, the sort that plays to a worldwide audience, many of whom might not speak your native tongue. With a graphic, you can clearly point out that Area X is a link and not part of your text message. Using a graphic also gives you the opportunity to provide a visual clue about where the link goes. How about the humble shopping cart icon? A great many people in this world now know that clicking a shopping cart button takes them to a page that has something to do with buying something. That’s a pretty all-encompassing message using only a few pixels. Creating and applying attractive, well-thought-out navigational aids to a web page are a must in the competitive online marketplace. The following sections take a look at how you can combine CorelDRAW’s tools with your input and ingenuity to create web pages worth a thousand words. CorelDRAW’s Internet Toolbar You’ll find that several web tools and resources are located throughout CorelDRAW, but the central location for many of these resources is the Internet toolbar. Here’s a look at the toolbar; you choose Window | Toolbars | Internet, or right-click any visible toolbar and then 892 CorelDRAW X5 The Official Guide choose Internet from the pop-up menu. The buttons on this toolbar are dimmed unless you have an object or two on the current drawing page; now is a good time to create a few button-shaped graphics for tutorial steps you can follow a little later. Ill 28-1 From the Internet toolbar, you can apply web-specific properties to objects, such as hyperlinks, rollover effects, and image maps. Hyperlinks are links to existing web pages (or to bookmark links applied to objects in your CorelDRAW document). Rollovers are objects that can change their appearance and perform an event in response to a user’s cursor action over the object. Image maps are objects that have one or more linked areas to web page destinations. Rollovers are unique object types (that this chapter shows you how to make); however, hyperlinks can be applied to any single object or to specific characters in a paragraph text object. Arial, Verdana, Times New Roman, and several other typefaces are web compatible; when CorelDRAW exports these fonts—when you use them as paragraph text on a page—they will appear as editable text in the audience’s browser. Be sure to click the Make Text Web Compatible button before exporting your HTML; otherwise CorelDRAW will export the text as a bitmap graphic, as you’ll see when you get to the Images tab while exporting. See “Web Text Options” later in this chapter. The Internet toolbar provides a convenient hub for applying nearly all web object properties. Many of these properties can also be found and applied elsewhere in CorelDRAW, but it’s more convenient to use the toolbar. Making your graphics actually perform the duties you’ve assigned to them (by applying web properties) requires that a matching piece of HTML code is added to the web page HTML. CorelDRAW will write this code for you when you export your Corel document. You will need to provide the HTML along with the graphic to your client or to the webmaster to make the interactive graphics you’ve created do what they’re supposed to do. In the sections to follow, you’ll learn what options are available, and where to find them. CHAPTER 28: Basic HTML Page Layout and Publishing 893 28 Create Rollover Edit Rollover Extract All Objects from Rollover Finish Editing Rollover Live Preview of Rollovers Active Rollover State Duplicates State Deletes Rollover State Hotspot Rollover Options Behavior Show Hotspots (toggle) Make Text Web Compatible Export HTML Internet Address Target Frame ALT Comments . field list, you can change the order of the fields by clicking to highlight a field in the Field Name list, and then clicking the Move Up 886 CorelDRAW X5 The Official Guide FIGURE 27-14 Create. visible toolbar and then 892 CorelDRAW X5 The Official Guide choose Internet from the pop-up menu. The buttons on this toolbar are dimmed unless you have an object or two on the current drawing. you should reinsert the sheet of paper after printing the first side. The Duplexing Wizard is not intended for use with a PostScript printer. 884 CorelDRAW X5 The Official Guide FIGURE 27-12 Preflight