Curves function... a miserable excuse of the most important tool.
Export to web... would it kill ya to separate the interface into separate process for the controls and the preview. It's just consumed 80% of my time waiting for a preview that isn't the res I want just so I can set the res and have to wait again.
Export to web with multiple tabs. Unless you work from the last tab forward the idiot program flip to the last tab during the render process then fricken takes the file name from the last tab and spits it at you as the file name (for save) of the tab you are working on.
Then we have the bullshit of these menus and keystrokes. SERIOUSLY what new user is going even find "dust and scratches". Then to make this crap code work you have to duplicate the image, apply D&S, then blend it back on an "if darker" setting. What a PITA that could so obviously be done in the D&S code.
And don't you dare defend this slack effort from Corel David or I'll are reach through the screen and pull your bloody arms off!
This is a program what 20 generation old? It just screams "who the blood hell is providing credible feedback that is meaningful in a photography workflow and if that person even exists then why the hell aren't Corel listening!"
Here's a good one... DRAW... I'm doing a very rough plan view of where my house sit on a block.
So I draw an outline for the block. Then the basic house bits. And then put dimensions on them.
Fricken thing the base box keeps being selected.
WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
Yani said:
Fricken thing the base b
Sounds like you have have the "Treat Objects as Filled" on. By default Corel has it on. One of the first things I do is turn that off then save settings as default.
I assume you mean before and after you unlock the rectangle. I'll check.
If not am I creating the dimension incorrectly?
Right, without it being locked. Or when you select the rectangle does it say that it's a "Control Rectangle" after drawing the dimensions?
Ok now we're getting somewhere. The issue was how I draw my dimensions, In the case of a rectangle I draw it with the outline set to the inside. I pull guidelines and draw my dimension lines to the guidelines but well outside the rectangle. I rarely ever resize the graphic, if I need to I redraw the dimensions. Also keeping the graphic independent can give you more flexibility IMO.
This generates a proper dimension line that is not linked to the graphic so I can then lock the graphic. I always do this to keep the dimensions well outside the graphic because I convert all to curves so I can shrink the drawing for a PDF, sized for emailing and the clients printer.
If I draw the dimension line directly to the edges of the rectangle then the rectangle becomes a control object and I cannot lock it.
However I've always done it as in my first paragraph because to utilize emailed reduced sized PDF files you have to convert the dimension lines to curves and set the outline to scale to the drawings. As long as the dimensions are well outside the graphic the arrows reduce down and will not cover any of the graphic.
I've been using reduced sized PDF files and dimension lines like this since forever. I use my saved drawing, make the adjustments of converting to curves, setting outlines to scale to drawing, select all group, reduce size, publish the selected to PDF. Undo all the changes or simply close Draw without saving.
One drawing to rule them all. Of course the method of drawing the dimension lines is the ticket.
Wow, you really need to take a look at using the "Quick Dimensions" macro. Select the rectangle hit the letter d (that's what I assigned the macro to) and BAM! you have dimensions separate from the rectangle.
I would if it was more time consuming however with 99% of our commercial work now being kit cabinets or letters it's not needed as the base drawings with dimensions are provided by the manufacturer in a pattern drawing which includes electrical and mechanical. We are buying signs manufactured and delivered to us for less that we can pay for the parts. I try and avoid design shop work, mass production work of any kind and stickers.
I'm semi-retired now and only do large scale custom projects, signs, donor walls, wide and grad format prints and image editing so I'm only doing complex drawing several times a year. Some high end commercial printing all tied to my image editing. Image editing was always good profit work for me but with the downward slide of photography it has become even more so now.