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The "Lens" tool in CorelDRAW can accomplish what you're asking. The trick is using the "Magnify" tool with a setting of 1.0X and checking the "frozen" option. That will create a copy of the desired artwork within the clipping shape. Then you can get rid of the larger group of objects behind it...

Opening customer provided PDFs can often be a crap shoot, even if the PDF was generated by Adobe Illustrator. There's lots of things the person creating the PDF can do to mess up things. It's no big deal at all to convert fonts embedded in a PDF to outlines. That's easy. Just place the PDF into...

Canned stock templates (Word Press, etc) have taken over much of the web design market. Adobe looks like it is going that route via its Spark platform.

I'm calling BS on that one. I've been using both CorelDRAW and Adobe Illustrator for over 20 years (currently use Corel X8 and Illustrator CC 2018). The two applications have their own unique strengths and weaknesses, so I prefer having access to the strengths of both. More important: CorelDRAW...

I don't mind having to copy an object from an existing Illustrator .AI document over into a new one for exporting purposes. It's a fast process with keyboard shortcuts to copy and paste into the new document. It's certainly faster than deleting everything else in the existing document. I prefer...

Raster-based files of things like logos, when supplied by customers, often stink. A JPEG is fine if all you need to do is print an image of it at a modest size. For many other sign-making tasks any raster-based file is a non-starter. If the customer wants channel letters made from their logo...

I've seen this typeface before, but can't recall where. TIA for any help identifying it.

There is no Mac version of CorelDRAW, not to mention a couple other applications I use at work. That's a deal breaker for me switching to the Mac platform. Corel tried releasing a Mac version about 15 years ago. It didn't sell so Corel ended that experiment. It's not necessary to run a Mac to...

Most of the time the art files I receive are from customers, not other sign people. They're going to put up with only so much from a sign guy telling them how they should use their software, what kinds of files to supply, etc. You have to walk a fine line getting the right kinds of artwork from...

Both CorelDRAW and Adobe Illustrator have serious limitations with importing artwork from their rival applications. Neither plays nicely with the other. I've been dealing with this particular issue, along with plenty of other artwork export-import issues, for over 20 years. The only real...

I'm stumped on the identity of the typeface used in the attached font sample. The customer gave me a vector-based logo, which I used to create this lettering sample. But some of the letters are set on an arc and I need to compose a couple lock-ups with new lettering set on a straight line, which...

Please check out the attached PNG image. I've seen these ornamental symbols before, I think in a symbol typeface from a text typeface family. But I'm not sure if they're from an Adobe or Corel clip art library either. Thanks in advance for any help getting an ID on this.

I started using a large 12.9" iPad Pro (512GB WiFi only 2017 model) for certain hand-drawn tasks. I'm not an Apple fan, but after comparing the stylus performance between the Wacom Cintiq, Microsoft Surface Pro/Surface Pro Studio the Apple Pencil in conjunction with the iPad Pro won out handily...

If the artwork is a native Adobe Illustrator .AI file there should be no sliced up artwork, bounding boxes and other extraneous trash -at least not when you're opening the .AI file in Adobe Illustrator. Normally the boxes and sliced artwork comes from placed PDF files, with the PDF being the...

There's all sorts of ways to visually simulate the look of open faced neon channel letters in CorelDRAW. I design the ones we build to exact specification so the letter backs & faces can be routed and the tube paths can be used for neon tube patterns. Then I concern myself later about how to...

Heck, even if you have the latest version of CorelDRAW you're still going to run into issues importing artwork generated by Adobe Illustrator. FWIW, problems occur going the other way as well. Adobe Illustrator and CorelDRAW do not get along together very well at all.

I don't know if anything will come of it, but the developers for Adobe Illustrator are aware of the art board size complaints (along with other long-standing complaints). I started out using CASmate when it was still a MS-DOS program. It did some things well, but not others. I had to hop from...

I've been using both Adobe Illustrator and CorelDRAW since the early 1990's. I used Macromedia Freehand for a few years as an alternative to Illustrator (particularly in the mid to late 1990's period when Adobe offered v5, v5.5 and v6 upgrades of Illustrator only for Mac). In the early days it...

My system is starting to age a little, but it is still pretty stout: Core i7 CPU, 24GB of RAM, 1.5 GB GeForce GTX card. Corel's font playground feature is just a lag-tastic pig.

Corel Font Manager X8 is definitely a culprit for the terrible performance problems in CorelDRAW X8. I have a pretty large collection of fonts. Referencing that font collection folder in Corel's font manager would just bog down the program. It would take a long time for X8 to launch. And then it...