Hi...
I'm a spotty Corel user, trying to get back into it. Using CD11, I have created a black and white graphic image that I'd like to open in my iMac using Photoshop. I select the image and have tried exporting as a TIF, publishing as a PDF, and I'm saving to a USB stick. The files are listed, but when I try to open them in PS, they are blank? I must be doing something wrong here. Maybe I'm screwing up the eject on the Windows machine with Corel? It says save all the files and continue... I've already saved this file so why am I not seeing anything on my iMac screen?
Its probably obvious to a daily windows/corel user... but I'm lost.
TIA for the help!
Mike
First, try saving to TIF on your local drive. You should then be able to open that TIF in the version 11 photopaint, or import that TIF into a new CorelDraw document. This will prove whether your file really is blank, without having to consider whether the USB eject is damaging the file, or the mac is failing to recognise the USB stick.
Then once you have a known-good TIF you can try copying it to the USB stick.
Tried saving the file using "Selected" as a TIFF on my HDD. Tried to open it in Corel Painter 11, it shows up blank and its also the wrong format... its portrait. OK, so I messed around and was able to open a backup which showed up fine. I saved the file and saved the day. But perhaps you can help me avoid the same problem again.
I'm working on a tribal flame design for my truck. One section will go on the hood, the other on the fiberglas bed cover. I'm checking into the possibility of a local sign shop that has a plotter cutter... to cut the mask using an automotive paint mask. She's never done it and is looking ito the mask material. The backup is to have the paint shop guy hand-mask the pattern which is pretty normal. What I want to do is give him a full-size line drawing of the pattern with a 1" X 1" grid. I think trying to save a file with a printable grid is where I got in trouble. The drawing I'm working on now is 33" wide and 82" long. I'd like to know how to spec the grid properly, save the file, and then I can bring it to Staples where they print it on a 36" B&W printer for a very reasonable price... I think around $10.00. I have to go into the drawing and add dimensional lines like a technical drawing so the painter can start by laying down the irregular base coat shape in which the edges are like Lightning bolts. The bolts will be silver and the area in-between will be candy blue. The flame pattern will be ghosted pearl so it will be very visible in sunlight/spotlight but otherwise almost invisible. I also want to print this out at home on a legal size sheet using my HP 2600N. TIA for whatever advice and pointers you can give me. I think my real problem is understanding the saving of the file with the grid.
OK, need to take this a few steps at a time.
First, can you confirm that it is CorelDraw 11, not photopaint 11, which you are using for the initial design.
Next ... grids in CorelDraw are not intended to be printable. The problem is that if you zoom out, you will see they extend a very long way outside your design area. I don't have version 11 to test with, but I suggest you do a quick test exporting without that grid and see if that's the problem. If that's the case, we can suggest a way to make a 1" grid that only covers the design area.
Yes... Its definitely CorelDraw 11 on the PC although I do have Painter on my Mac. Last night, i was able to print this on a legal size page but the grid doesn't scale down with the artwork. For my full-size printout (36" by 82") at Staples I would like what you said... A 1" by 1" grid printed to within 1" outside the artwork. It would make for a great guide in masking the pattern if we have to revert to hand-masking. Some painters use chalk substance and a ponce wheel where they chalk up the back of the drawing, then use the ponce wheel to leave a dotted "trail" on the prepped paint surface. Prepped meaning it isn't gloss or clearcoated, and its usually scuffed with a very fine scotchbrite pad for better adhesion of the next coat of paint.
i did see the grid extending well past the printable size, but i think what happened was it only printed to the printable area... and like I said, the grid did not re-size automatically.
Print and export both follow different rules and neither are likely to have been tested much with the grid layer, because it is usually marked as non-printing.
But it is easy to make your own grid, using shorter lines and the blend tool :
It may look slightly different in v11 but the procedure will be the same:
Set the original grid layer back to non-printable and then see if you can export again with the above as a grid