Corel Files as objects ("updatable")

Dan, let me give you another way to do those business cards, then I'll
answer the "Class" question.

To do business cards, nametags, return address labels and other sorts of
things where you want the same information on a bunch of labels, it's
easiest to do it by setting up the page layout as a label. The real
problem with this method is that you need to be able to PRINT to PDF,
not just use CorelDRAW's Publish to PDF. (At least I've not figured out
how - yet!) The Print to PDF would probably work for your imposition
layout too since that's basically what the label templates do.

Start a new CorelDRAW document, go to Layout/Page Setup, and you get the
Options dialog box opened to the Page size options. Click the Labels
radio button at the top and choose the label template you want to use or
click the Customize Label button and set up your page of labels that way
(easiest to pick something close to what you want to do to from the
given templates first to give you a place to start from).

Once you have the size labels and arrangement on the page the way you
want them, Click OK and OK out of the Options dialog.

You'll be left seeing ONE label AS the page you are looking at. Design
your label or card in that space as if it were the label or card itself.
When you're done, click Print Preview and you'll see that you get a full
sheet of that particular label or card.

From there, Print to PDF using Acrobat or any of the other cheaper (or
even free) PDF creation software programs out there and you'll get a
full PDF page of cards.

To change anything in the information, you only change one card and all
the rest follow suit.

NOW, about that "class" thing. There are a couple of things you can do.
My favorite for this kind of application is to use Symbols. Create that
first card, group the whole thing, then right click and Convert to
Symbol. That adds it to your document symbol library. Now you can pull
instances of that symbol out of the library and add as many as you want
to the page. Edit your symbol, and they all change.

Not particularly recommended for text due to some bugs, but you can also
make clones (from the Edit menu) of your work so when the original
changes, the clones all change.

Hope that helps.
Val P.

Dan Dias wrote:
> Hey,
>
> This is my first time in this forum. I've been using Corel Draw for a
> while, but I never really got into it. Now, because of work I'm trying
> to get more out of it.
>
> I hit a rock when I created a business card (in one file) and tried to
> print 10 copies in one page. So, I found two solutions:
>
> 1.
> I opened another file and imported my image (.cdr) into that new
> file. Copied and pasted 10 times, set up positions on the sheet
> and that's it, I was ready to publish it to .pdf and have it printed.
> *
> But this method has one problem: let's say that after I did
> all that I noticed the phone number on the card was wrong.
> What did I have to do? Either change the phone number in
> each copy of the business card on the sheet (and make sure I
> also change the phone number in the original) *or *delete
> the file, change the original and create a new file, make
> new copies, spread them out on the sheet, yada yada yada...
> 2.
> The other is to create the business card and in the "Print
> Preview", use the "Imposition layout tool" and change the amont of
> copies horizontal and vertical.
> 1.
> The problem with this method: I can't publish this print
> layout to .pdf.
>
>
>
> Does anyone know how to create an object out of a .cdr file, so that
> every time I change that "class", the objects would change as well? (I'm
> sorry that's kind of a programmer language, but I didn't know to put
> this into another words without writing too much. I can always make
> myself clearer.)
>
>
>
> Thank you very much,
>
> Dan Dias
>
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