If you create an object in CorelDraw that is 5 x 5 inches. Then add a huge outline to it, the measurement still reads 5 x 5. In Illustrator there's a preference to measure just the main object, or to include the outlines in the measurement and control handles. Does CorelDraw have the same setting?
In Object Properties tab you can select three options for outlines:
I think third option (Inside outline) results what you want.
Like This. Selection includes outlines.
Ronny Axelsson said:...but since they don't, Smart Fill, Trim etc. do no work the way they ought to do. Draw should be able to include outlines but it doesn't and this leads to undesirable consequences. That is what Hywel meant, and that is also what I agreed to (if it was optional).
FWIW, that is also the way I read Hywel's comment. I didn't think he was excusing Corel on this one, but rather, pointing out consequences of this particular limitation of the program.
Eskimo said: Ronny Axelsson ...but since they don't, Smart Fill, Trim etc. do no work the way they ought to do. Draw should be able to include outlines but it doesn't and this leads to undesirable consequences. That is what Hywel meant, and that is also what I agreed to (if it was optional). FWIW, that is also the way I read Hywel's comment. I didn't think he was excusing Corel on this one, but rather, pointing out consequences of this particular limitation of the program.
Ronny Axelsson ...but since they don't, Smart Fill, Trim etc. do no work the way they ought to do. Draw should be able to include outlines but it doesn't and this leads to undesirable consequences. That is what Hywel meant, and that is also what I agreed to (if it was optional).
Personally I'm fed up of criticising Corel, not because they don't deserve it, but because they really don't listen. They have their hands over their ears going 'la la la la lahhh'. I could do nothing else, such is their lethargy and lack of ambition, but it wears me down. Can't imagine the shareholders are interested otherwise they'd put a bomb up the mangements' ***..... Its the dev's I feel sorry for. No money to do a proper job of anything, no time to fix bugs that have been around years and years. I would't want their job it must be dispiriting.
I will be handing my business over to my son to run in the next few years so I won't need to get so worked up about it, but you should hear how scathing he is about Draw.