Hi,
I know very little about CorelDraw but need to use it to create something at work. I cannot fill an area and it's driving me mad! I have been able to fill an area on another image and I don't know what I'm doing wrong. The image is an .ai file. I've tried smart fill, I've tried closing the curve, I've tried connecting the edges to create a rectangle - nothing seems to be working!
Anyone have any ideas how I can fill this?
Thanks,
Megan
MeganLouise said: I know very little about CorelDraw but need to use it to create something at work. I cannot fill an area and it's driving me mad! I have been able to fill an area on another image and I don't know what I'm doing wrong. The image is an .ai file. I've tried smart fill, I've tried closing the curve, I've tried connecting the edges to create a rectangle - nothing seems to be working! Anyone have any ideas how I can fill this?
If you upload a .CDR file that people can look at, you will have a better chance of getting assistance.
I have snipped the working screen - hopefully this will guide people a little!
MeganLouise said: I have snipped the working screen - hopefully this will guide people a little!
I screen shot won't necessarily help to determine why a particular area cannot be filled. We would need to see the .CDR file.
Apologies. The .CDR file is too big to upload.
I suspect that the difficulties start with the .AI file. When I look at in AI (and I'm really an AI noob, so take that for what it's worth), I don't find that the large shape on the right is "nicely fillable" to begin with. Looking closely, I also see several places where the ends of lines don't meet where they obviously should.The difficulties get worse when one imports the AI file into CorelDraw, becasuse CorelDraw just doesn't do a very good job with that. So, it turns into even more separate curves.I get fewer curves if I export from AI as an SVG file, then import it into CorelDraw.From there, it's down to curve editing in CorelDraw to combine curves that belong together, make ends touch where they should, and then close nodes so that it ends up being a closed curve.That editing was easier to accomplish by temporarily moving the red "crease" rectangles to a different layer and making that layer invisible.4061.popup.cdr
Another way to approach this sort of thing, especially if an "immaculate" outline is needed, is to keep the imported material on one layer in CorelDraw, set that layer to not be editable, then create new content on a different layer using the imported content for reference (Snap To Objects can still "see" the imported content).
If the shapes are not very complex, that can be a good way to get clean CorelDraw content from messy imported content.
6787.popup - drawn fresh in CorelDRAW.cdr