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?
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).
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.
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.
Eskimo said: If I wanted to use VBA to measure the size of the rectangle that just bounded something, including outline characteristics, then I might think about something like this: make a copy of the item convert it to bitmap get the width and height of the bitmap delete the bitmap Some of that stuff can be faster if one does it with virtual objects rather than real ones. Doing it that way would take into account not just line width, but also whether it was centerline/inside/outside, line caps, miters, etc.
If I wanted to use VBA to measure the size of the rectangle that just bounded something, including outline characteristics, then I might think about something like this:
Some of that stuff can be faster if one does it with virtual objects rather than real ones.
Doing it that way would take into account not just line width, but also whether it was centerline/inside/outside, line caps, miters, etc.
I've thought about this some, and recently tried implementing it in a macro.
It is intended not just to measure, but also to resize things to specified "true size". When resizing, it checks (and preserves) the position based on the "true size".
Is anybody interested in trying this? I've run it under X7 and X8.
I know this is old, but I'd like to try this out!