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#8: Macro - "Offsetter".

What is Offsetter? Offsetter is a macro that can offset a guideline or a two-node line by a specified distance. In this context, "offset" means moving the line - or creating a duplicate of the line - a specified distance in a direction that is at a r...

Sun, May 26 2019

#7: Macros for Quick Access to Dockers.

Eskimo

Dockers. Dockers are an important part of the CorelDRAW user interface. Although there are a number of ways of arranging them, many users find it useful to have multiple dockers in the same area. At any given time, one docker is visible, and the othe...

Wed, May 22 2019

#6: Macro - "Rotator".

Eskimo

What is Rotator? Rotator is a macro for rotating selected objects. One can of course rotate objects natively in CorelDRAW, but this macro offers some additional features. These include: Showing more decimal places for the angle (the Transformations ...

Sun, May 5 2019

#5: Workspace Customization - User Menus.

Eskimo

What is a User Menu? In an earlier post (#2: Workspace Customization - Using a VBA macro sub as a Command), I noted that there are many Commands - found in Options>Workspace>Customization>Commands - that can be used with CorelDRAW's workspac...

Sun, Apr 14 2019

#4: Workspace Customization - Adding a Command to a Context Menu.

Eskimo

In an earlier post - #2: Workspace Customization - Using a VBA macro sub as a Command - we showed how a Command can be added to a Toolbar using CorelDRAW's workspace customization. Commands can also be added to Menus, using the same sort of drag-and-...

Sat, Oct 6 2018

#3: Macro - "Weed Box".

Eskimo

What is Weed Box? Weed Box is a macro for creating "weed boxes" and, optionally, "weed lines" for work such as vinyl cutting. It can help get from something like this: to something like this: See Weed Box in Use: https://youtu.be/AvJrg7MJY7U Basic ...

Thu, Oct 4 2018

#2: Workspace Customization - Using a VBA macro sub as a Command.

Eskimo

In a previous post - Getting started with using VBA macros (What do you do with a .GMS file?) - we went through the exercise of installing a .GMS file, and saw that we could access subs from that macro using the Macro Manager docker. For some ma...

Thu, Oct 4 2018

#1: Getting started with using VBA macros (What do you do with a .GMS file?).

Eskimo

So you want to use a .GMS file... You've seen other users refer to "macros" on the forum. Someone has shared a .GMS file, and you want to use it, but have never installed one. Here's a link to a .GMS file: Hello_World.gms. If you didn't have a .GMS f...

Wed, Oct 3 2018