Working with pages and layout tools

The CorelDRAW application allows you to specify the size, orientation, unit of scale, and background of the drawing page. You can customize and display page grids and guidelines to help you organize objects and place them exactly where you want. For example, if you are designing a newsletter, you can set the dimensions of the pages and create guidelines for positioning columns and heading text. When you are laying out an advertisement, you can align graphics and advertisement copy along guidelines and arrange graphic elements within a grid. Rulers can help you position grids, guidelines, and objects along a scale using units of your choosing. Also, you can add and delete pages.

Page layout settings and tools are fully customizable and can be used as defaults for other drawings.

In this section, you’ll learn about

•specifying the page layout

•choosing a page background

•adding, renaming, and deleting pages

•using the rulers

•calibrating the rulers

•setting up the grid

•setting up guidelines

•setting the drawing scale

Specifying the page layout

You can begin working on a drawing by specifying settings for the size, orientation, and layout style of the page.

There are two options for specifying a page size: choosing a preset page size or creating your own. You can choose from many preset page sizes ranging from legal-size paper

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and envelopes to posters and Web pages. If a preset page size does not meet your needs, you can create a custom page size by specifying a drawing’s dimensions.

The orientation of the page can be landscape or portrait. With landscape orientation the drawing’s width is greater than its height, and with portrait orientation the drawing’s height is greater than its width. Any pages you add to a drawing project assume the current orientation; however, you can give single pages in a drawing project a different orientation. The options you choose when specifying the page layout can be used as a default for all new drawings you create. You can also adjust the page size and orientation settings to match the standard paper settings for printing.

To set the page size and orientation

To	Do the following
Choose a preset page size	Click Layout ` Page setup, and choose a
	paper type from the Paper list box.
Specify a custom page size	Click Layout ` Page setup, and choose
	Custom from the Paper list box, and type
	values in the Width and Height boxes.
Set the page orientation	Click Layout ` Page setup, and enable the
	Landscape or the Portrait option.

Set the page orientation for an individual page in a multi-page document

Go to the page. Click the bottom half of the

Set default or current page size and orientation button on the property bar, and click the Landscape or Portrait button.

To apply page size and orientation settings to all pages in a drawing, select the top half of the Set default or current page size and orientation button, and disable the Resize current page only check box in the Size dialog box.

You can also specify the page size and orientation for individual pages by clicking View ` Page sorter view, selecting the bottom half on the Set default or current page size and orientation button, clicking a page, and specifying your options using the buttons on the property bar.

To set the default page layout

1 Click Tools ` Options.

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