making a coupon border

Does anyone know a good way to make coupon borders in Corel? If you've ever done this using the dashed line setting, you know the corners never come out right. There is a macro out there that sells for $10 but I think that's plain idiocy. 15 versions in, Corel has to have figured this out! The only way I've found to do it is to manually create white rectangles spaced out along a solid line. Not only is this time consuming, it's worse if you have many different coupon sizes.

  • The way that I would do this is to use the Pen tool and draw a rectangle. Once I have that (even if I have to edit a node or two), I change the outline thickness (from Hairline to, say, 2 points) and then change the line type (on the property bar) from solid line to one of the dashed lines. Fill = none, outline = black.

    Now, I can copy and paste this dashed-line rectangle any place I want, and resize it to fit what I want.

  • Mike,
     
    For whatever reason, Corel hasn't provided an easy way to do this. That's the reality of the situation. A clever macro developer has made a great solution for minimal cost for those who do need to make coupons. Why is it idiocy that a macro developer has addressed the needs of people needing to make coupons? And why shouldn't that macro developer receive compensation for the work they've done?
     
     
    • I'm sorry, the idiocy comment was not directed at the clever programmer. I meant that it's idiocy when you have to resort to programming a feature that should have been built into the program years ago.

    • Mike said:
      There is a macro out there that sells for $10 but I think that's plain idiocy. 15 versions in, Corel has to have figured this out!

      Corel hasn't figured it out as you've realized. :-)They focus on bigger issues, and rightfully so.

      C'mon, check out the cool options in this commercial macro. Would Corel have offered 3 scissor choices? I contend only after seeing ours first. :-D

      • Gotta say, Jeff, that's one beautiful coupon border maker. Might just have to break the kid's piggy bank and buy it.

        • I don't know how it should look like. What coupons look like there?

          • Wache, see the example with dashed lines in the image Jeff provided above.

            • Well, if you don't want to buy Jeff's macro (I think that that is good spent money if you working with coupons) there is another way: create dashed line, make it in right size, than rotate for 90 degrees and copy, convert it to object, see that end suites you, weld that two objects, copy new created object and flip it. weld again... looks like lot of works but in fact it will take only few seconds.