To	Do the following
Make new text Web-compatible	Click Tools ` Options. In the list of
	categories, double-click Workspace, Text,
	and click Paragraph. Enable the Make all
	new paragraph text frames Web
	compatible check box.

Ensure that the Web-compatible text does not intersect or overlap other objects or extend beyond the boundaries of the drawing page; otherwise the text will be converted to a bitmap, and it will lose its Internet properties.

Artistic text cannot be converted to Web-compatible text and is always treated as a bitmap. However, you can convert it to paragraph text and then make it Web compatible. For information on converting text, see “Finding, editing, and converting text” on page 217.

Working with bookmarks and hyperlinks

CorelDRAW lets you create bookmarks and hyperlinks in your Web document. You can apply these to rollovers, bitmaps, and other objects.

Bookmarks

To create an internal link in an HTML file, you can assign a bookmark to text or to an object. You can then assign a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) to an object that links to the bookmark. The object containing a URL has a hotspot, an area that activates a hyperlink when clicked in a browser.

Hyperlinks

Within a document, hyperlinks connect to any object that has been assigned a bookmark, or the hyperlink can connect to any document on the World Wide Web by using that document’s URL. You can also set a hotspot that follows the outline of the object, or fills the object’s bounding box.

CorelDRAW applies a crosshatch pattern to an object containing a hyperlink. You can change the color of the crosshatch pattern as well as its background fill.

After you create hyperlinks, you can display and verify them.

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To assign a bookmark

1Right-click an object, and click Properties.

2Click the Internet tab .

3Choose Bookmark from the Behavior list box.

4Type the name of the bookmark.

To assign a hyperlink to a bookmark or external Web site

1Right-click an object, and click Properties.

2Click the Internet tab .

3Choose URL from the Behavior list box.

4Type a URL address.

You can also

Specify what frame will display when the	Choose a target frame from the Target
rollover is clicked	list box.
Add a description of the object for text-only	Type the text in the Alt comments text box.
browsers
Define the hotspot area	Choose Object shape or Object’s
	bounding box from the Define hotspot
	using list box.

URLs to external Web sites must contain the http:// prefix. Other supported protocols include mailto:, ftp:, and file:.

You can rename a bookmark and create a hyperlinked bookmarked object from a document object by using the Internet bookmark manager docker.

To assign crosshatch and background hotspot colors

1Click Window ` Dockers ` Properties.

2Click the Internet tab .

3Open the Cross-hatch color picker , and click a color.

4Open the Background color picker , and click a color.

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If you choose a hyperlinked object first and then change the crosshatch and background hotspot colors, the change applies to the selected object only. If you change the hotspot colors with no object selected, the default colors are changed for this drawing and for future sessions of CorelDRAW.

To display hyperlinked objects

1Click Window ` Toolbars ` Internet.

If the Internet command is not available, click Tools ` Options, click Command bars in the Workspace, Customization list of categories, and ensure the Internet check box is enabled.

2On the Internet toolbar, enable the Show hotspots button .

All objects to which you’ve assigned URLs display in the crosshatch and background hotspot colors.

To verify links in a Web document

1Click Window ` Dockers ` Link manager.

2In the list, verify that all URL links display a green check mark.

3Click the Refresh button to verify any broken links.

You can also verify a single link in the Link manager by right-clicking it and clicking Verify link.

If you want to test a link by opening a URL in a Web browser, right-click the object, and click Jump to hyperlink in browser.

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