As any of you in the Corel community probably already know, macros can be used to increase productivity (and/or simply decrease headache time). Each macro undoubtedly have their own merits (or finite uses), but many of us probably look at one and think: "oh that will be useful some day, I need to remember that one" and then promptly forget about it.
My question for the day is what macros people here use regularly. By this I mean, which macros do people use as core additions to their Corel environment--perhaps something you can't live without or something you feel would be useful to many people.
Also, please note what version(s) your macro is compatible with. And it would be becoming to not overly self-promote one's own creation.
I've crearted at least a dozen or so
Fill in my file labels with todays date & full file path so other designers know where I saved a file. Automatically give me dimension lines of selected object. One Macro exports to eps1 so I can go to other computer and use Macro to import that eps1, I don't have to take the time to find the file for cutting vinyl. Created a Macro to copy and paste whatever I have selected onto an 8 1/2 x 11 PDF form. Automatically breaks the dimension lines, groups all then resizes to 7in width, and centers to page. Adds date too. One Macro prepares my banners for print by deleting grommets but leaves a dot where the grommets should go - deletes all dimensions and puts a rectangle where the cut should be.
Just curious if this might be feasible as a macro...
After struggling with multiple, largely incompatible formats for a couple decades, the company has decided - for better or worse - to use Word for most of its tech manuals and product info sheets, but most of the new files and legacy files show up here as pdfs or PageMaker or native DRAW files. DRAW is the only program that actually supports importing pdfs as a fully editable file. We also have Illustrator CS2 & CS5, as well as Indesign CS2, none of which support editing of pdfs except as a single block.So, is there an easy way to export a COREL Draw file as a Word document? I have the X3 package and Word 2007. I realize that the severe positioning, font size, etc. restrictions make an exact translation virtually impossible, but I would be happy with an approximation that preserved basic text and layout as well as images. Note that I've tried all the save and export options that come with X3, and some of them actually generate text objects that can be imported into Word, but not the images - photos, drawings, etc.
It would seem that a macro that rounded font sizes, positioning, etc., discarding things such as kerning as needed, could provide a close enough Word doc that the remaining problems could be handled manually. This could be incredibly valuable for all those people who are required to use pdfs and Word docs due to company policy or the necessities of dealing with people remotely who don't have anything compatible except Word..
ok got the "optimization" code set up good now. The macro is faster but I can still see a lot of jumping around. I also get two error beeps I'd like to get rid of in that macro. It does everything I want it to do just fires off two error beeps in the process.
ideas?
Hi.
There's a very old VBA/VB function simply called "Beep". Press Ctrl + F in the VBA editor to do a find.
Look in your code and see if it's there. If so comment it out by placing a single apostrophe in front of it.
PS. You can also wrap the function with the CommandGroup. I'm sure you saw that in the video too.
~John
No "Beep" in my coding. I did watch the video again and added the CommandGroup code in. Faster but still get the beeps. I relaize the Command Group wasn't meant to fix that though. Keep in mind I'm no good at writing these macros just something I've been getting nore into.
Not sure. It almost sounds like your sound card driver isn't installed and your system defaults to the computers internal beeper.
Hard to say more without seeing code.