When I publish it to PDF the page size is too big. I want to know how I can scale it down to a smaller page size, ie 500' x 500', currently I am at 1/4' = 1'. The corel page size now is 2,800 x 2000'. Thanks, Iain
I didn't think the max art board size in CorelDRAW went any bigger than 1800" X 1800". In full size sign design work I rarely ever work on page sizes larger than 1000" tall or wide.PDF output in CorelDRAW appears to run into serious problems with page sizes any larger than 125" or 150". You'll just have to create a copy of your layout and reduce it to a much smaller scale on a much smaller page size, especially if it will be printed on normal sized sheets of paper. Reduce the artwork in size by a specific percentage for it to match a certain scale. For instance if it will be 1/4" = 1' the percentage would be 2.083333%.
Yes, that's what I have done as a stop gap, but this also changed all my measurements, obviously, I was looking for an easy way to scale down the whole drawing so it would fit on 500' x 500' page to accommodate the PDF aspect of it all.
And keep the scale measurements
Yani's suggestion of setting rulers to a certain scale is one possible approach, although that is an approach I usually avoid in my workplace. Since elements in some projects get used and re-used many times elsewhere. Rulers in a CDR document set at something other than actual size introduces another potential factor for error. The scale is only good within that specific document, not for objects copied out of that document and pasted elsewhere.I prefer designing signs at full size in a large master file and then creating separate client sketches on standard pages (letter, legal or tabloid) with the artwork manually sized down where it matches a certain scale, such as 1" = 1'. But in the client sketch one inch is still going to be equal to one inch. If the layout in my full size file is going to be too big for the work space I'll create it at 50%, 25% or 10% of actual size and include pretty loud warning labels in the document for which elements are full size or at a reduced scale.
There's a feature opportunity here. Turn edit scaling into an onscreen interactive tool as opposed to this "keep guessing the scale until it fits".
I use it a lot for all sorts of jobs, including about the house. Stick a photo up then scale the photo and you can use the dimension tool to guess the rough sizes for other items.
Example, I want to make a cupboard door like a Tardis. I've got a base graphic in the right proportions and I know the size of the wall where the door goes.
Makes it all too easy to work out what materials are required and rework the design to fit standard sizes.
Yani said:There's a feature opportunity here. Turn edit scaling into an onscreen interactive tool as opposed to this "keep guessing the scale until it fits".
Yani said:I use it a lot for all sorts of jobs, including about the house. Stick a photo up then scale the photo and you can use the dimension tool to guess the rough sizes for other items.
Yani said:Example, I want to make a cupboard door like a Tardis. I've got a base graphic in the right proportions and I know the size of the wall where the door goes.
Some macro tools are available to scale content in specific ways, i.e., scaling selected objects proportionately based on a known reference distance.
One of them would be Shelby's AutoSize (available at MacroMonster).
My own Match Vectors macro can also be used to perform that sort of task:
To be clear, those tools are NOT about changing "WorldScale" in the document; they are about proportionately resizing content.
Interactive world scale would be neat. Maybe with an option to have a "snap to nearest world scale".
Yani said:Interactive world scale would be neat. Maybe with an option to have a "snap to nearest world scale".
There really isn't any work I do that would benefit from changing WorldScale interactively.
I don't have much experience using CorelDRAW to create "at a specific scale" drawings, but it seems to me that it requires some careful and deliberate planning to do so with any efficiency. That's especially true if one wants to have consistent formatting of dimension and annotations.
This is one of those places where CorelDRAW amply demonstrates that it is not in the same league as dedicated CAD software that has something like a "model space / paper space" way of working.