This has been a problem for me in CorelDraw for as long as I can remember. Outlines don't scale globally with objects. I have a crest with a bunch of elements in it. Some have outlines and some don't. It's 3 inches. I would like to enlarge it to 10 or whatever. If I select the crest and enlarge it, the outlines don't scale. The only option I've ever known of was to take them all individually and check off the scale outline on each object. It's a real workflow killer.
I spent the day reacquainting myself with CorelDraw. This and other similar show stoppers remind me of how difficult it is to make the switch from Illustrator back to CorelDraw. So how are people dealing with this? Are you simply taking however much time it takes to change each individual element to scale with object or is there a preference somewhere that I'm missing? This is a big stumbling block for me. There are a lot of major features I know I'd be leaving behind but there are others that I'd have access to. It's the little things like this that allow me to fly rather than crawl.
Try to look on Outline Pen properties - Option Scale with image
You can also change this option by Edit Find and Replace - Replace Object - Replace outline pen properties.
Best regards,
Mek
I think you're missing the point. The point is global vs local. The checkbox you're point to is not global. Here's what happens. I open a piece of clipart. Before I can scale it, I need to make sure that every element will scale it's outline proportionately. In Illustrator I just make sure that the single global checkbox is checked. Then I just scale all I want. In CorelDraw, there's no solution. I open that Outline Pen dialog you have there. It shows a solid square box inside the checkbox. That solid square box means that there's a conflict in my selected objects. Some of the items I have selected have outlines, some don't. I tick the box once and the solid square goes away replace by nothing. I tick it again. Now there's a check mark there. Good right? No. When I press OK, my art suddenly changes before my eyes. The objects that had black outlines now have none. All the elements in my art are now "the same". They all either have an outline, or they don't. That changes the art completely. It doesn't work. It's designed to operate on a single element, or at least elements that have the same properties. When you have a bunch of elements with different properties, the "Scale with image" simply fails. Worse than fails, it changes your elements to have all the same properties.
By the way, Find and Replace is an impossibly longwinded operation that actually requires that you ungroup all of your art for it to work. It's terrible. Illustrator has a one click solution to both issues here.
Hello,
check out this macro ?
http://macromonster.com/index.php?mod=descr&id_desc=101&pageNum_rs_products=1&keyword=outline&Submit=Go
That's definitely useful and works well. But there's still a problem with what I'm trying to do. I open the crest art. It's all grouped together. I Control click an element to select it, then use the macro. It works as expected and selects all the other "same" objects. Great. I open the Outline Pen box and check off the checkbox. Now what? Once I deselect this set of elements, I have no idea what elements have already been processed. There's still a whole lot of other elements to deal with and they all look pretty much the same. I can't isolate the parts that I just processed from the parts that I have yet to process. In Illustrator, Select same, for me is always followed by either the "Hide" command which makes it vanish from the screen, or the lock command. Neither is possible at this point in CorelDraw. I could lock the selection only if I were to ungroup everything first. I wouldn't want to ungroup it for various reasons. So while this macro is good, great even, it still doesn't solve this particular problem. Corel would do well to have the "hide" feature from Illustrator. And to make "scale with image" a part of the global preferences.
check out http://macros.cdrpro.ru/cdrtools
look to sTools Outline
but I not tested if it works as