How do you change the scale of the drawing? I usually work in 1/2" = 1' but cannot find how to change the scale.
I once went around and around with a customer who insisted on seeing a full scale proof of his sign but wanted it printed on an 8 1/2 x 11 paper. Even though I had the dimension lines depicting the actual size. He just didn't get it.
Thanks!
Randy
I am not a fan of the "Edit Scale" function in CorelDRAW at all. For my sign design work I create full size drawings for actual production work. The art board in CorelDRAW will go up to 1800" X 1800". I rarely ever need anything over 1000". I'll create separate reduced, scale-defined versions of the work to fit on Letter or Legal size paper for clients. But I don't mess with Corel's "edit scale" to alter rulers there either. I just reduce the full size artwork to whatever ratio it needs to be to fit properly on the page along with all the specifications. If it needs to be 3/4" = 1' I'll reduce the artwork to 6.25% of its normal full size and have a clear scale label on the sketch.The biggest problem I have with Corel's "Edit Scale" function is the art often does not blow up to full size accurately. That ruler scale doesn't port well to other non-Corel applications, such as Flexi, EnRoute or other software we use. Sometimes it doesn't even port accurately from one person's installation of CoreDRAW to another on a different computer. I've had enough headaches with that stuff in 25+ years of designing signs not to mess with it. Working in full size is just more reliable.
I get a great deal of work in from AI that needed to be scaled and there are always scaling errors one job had over 11" errors in 60'. I create all my files at full scale and set strokes to scale with document and simply scale down to fit the print proof size.
The easier alternative is just to fit output to page. No need to set outlines to scale with object.
Printing isn't an issue, CorelDraw however does need the same funcionality in PDF output as in normal printing however, the ability to scale to fit a particular page size. Whilst you can define the page based on the selected objects there is a page size limitation in PDF I believe? Printing to CutePDF will do it but I'm not sure that will work that well in every scenario.