This document provides steps for performing various drawing and viewing tasks in CorelDRAW. It outlines how to draw basic geometric shapes like lines, ellipses and rectangles using different tools. It also explains how to perform file-related operations like opening, saving and closing files. Additionally, it describes different view modes available in CorelDRAW like Normal View, Wireframe View and Page Sorter View and how to switch between them. Common editing tasks like undo, redo and repeating actions are also summarized.

1. CorelDRAW
Presented by
V.Santhi,
Department of Computer
Application,
Bon Secours College for women,
Thanjavur

2. Drawing Basic Geometric Figures
• Drawing Freehand Lines
• Joining Freehand Lines
• Drawing Bezier Lines
• Drawing Ellipses and Circles
• Drawing Rectangles and Squares

3. Drawing Freehand Lines
STEPS:
1. Click Freehand Tool(F5)
2. Place the mouse-pointer
3. Click and Release left mouse-button
4. Move the mouse pointer
5. Finally click the left mouse button

6. Joining Freehand Lines
STEPS:
1. Click Freehand Tool
2. Place Mouse pointer
3. Move mouse pointer down, to the right of
the previous click and double click, end of
the first line and starting of second line
4. Follow these steps to create a zig zag pattern

8. Drawing Bezier Lines
STEPS:
1. Click small arrow at the lower right corner of
the Freehand Tool(Flyout menu option)
2. Click Bezier tool
3. Place the Mouse pointer and click left mouse
button

10. Drawing Ellipses and Circles
STEPS:
1. Click Ellipse tool
2. Place mouse pointer
3. Press left mouse button and keeping it
pressed, drag the mouse pointer to define
the ellipse
4. Release the mouse button

12. Drawing Rectangle and Squares
STEPS:
1. Click Rectangle tool
2. Place mouse pointer
3. Press left mouse button and keeping it
pressed, drag the mouse pointer to define
the ellipse
4. Release the mouse button

14. Drawing Polygon
STEPS:
1. Click Polygon tool
2. Place mouse pointer
3. Press left mouse button and keeping it
pressed, drag the mouse pointer to define
the ellipse
4. Release the mouse button(Ctrl + Object -- >
Circle)

16. Saving a File
STEPS:
1. Click on the File menu.
2. Click Save option, Save Drawing Dialog box
3. Type a name for the file
4. Click Save button

17. Closing a File
STEPS:
1. Click File Menu
2. Click Close option

18. Opening an Existing CorelDRAW
STEPS:
1. Click File Menu
2. Click Open option  open Drawing Dialog
box
3. Browse the file
4. Click Open

19. Views
• View refers the way of Viewing the
Documents.
• CorelDRAW provides 6 types of View modes.
1. Normal View
2. Full Screen Preview
3. Simple Wireframe View
4. Wireframe View
5. Enhanced View
6. Page Sorter View

20. Normal View
• Displays a drawing without PostScript fills or
high-resolution bitmaps. This mode refreshes
and opens slightly faster than the Enhanced
mode.
STEPS:
1. Click View Menu
2. Click Normal Option

22. Full Screen Preview
• Full Screen Preview Provides a full view of the
Work and hides all other components of the
screen.
STEPS:
1. Click View Menu
2. Click Full Screen Preview options.

24. Simple wireframe
• Hides all the complex object properties and
displays the bitmaps in black and white
• Useful for editing objects
• Displays an outline of the drawing by
hiding fills, extrusions, contours, drop
shadows, and intermediate blend shapes; also
displays the bitmaps in monochrome. This
mode lets you quickly preview basic elements
in a drawing.

26. Wireframe
• Displays a drawing in simple wireframe mode
plus intermediate blend shapes
• Allow us to edit our drawing quickly
• Displays the drawing in a Skeletal form

28. Enhanced View
• Best possible display of a document
• Displays a drawing with PostScript fills, high-
resolution bitmaps, and anti-aliased vector
graphics.

30. Page Sorter View
• View is useful in case of more than one pages
in our document on a single screen
STEPS:
1. Click View Menu
2. Click Page Sorter View

32. Undo, Redo and Repeating Action
STEPS:
1. Click Edit menu
2. Click Undo, Redo and Repeat

33. Undo, Redo a Series of Actions
STEPS:
1. Click on Tools menu
2. Select Undo Docker option
3. Undo window showing list of all the actions
performed will be displayed on the right side
of the application window