May 1999 CorelNews

Publishing to PDF from CorelDRAW® 9
New PostScript® Driver Available for Windows® 95/98
Direct File Support for Corel Print House™/Office™ Files
Technical Support Tales From Our Database
Known Problem Extensions with CorelDRAW™ 8 for PowerMac® using Macintosh O/S 8.5.1 on an Apple® G3 computer.
Tips Using Print Styles in CorelDRAW®

Publishing to PDF from CorelDRAW® 9

Portable Document Files or PDFs are being used for everything from document distribution and job ticketing, output and prepress work, to electronic and web publishing. Some service bureaus have incorporated PDF into their workflow to the point where it is used for archiving, distribution, proofing, and maybe even for direct output to PostScript® 3 devices using programs like AGFA Apogee. CorelDRAW 9 has truly made PDF creation easier by integrating a robust PDF publishing engine that is more than capable of publishing any CorelDRAW file to a PDF file for any destination. This new capability is not just an Export filter, but rather a full-featured, dialog-driven, PostScript- powered wizard. Without further adieu, let us examine some of the options available in the Publish to PDF dialog available in CorelDRAW (and PHOTO-PAINT) 9's File menu.

General
Multiple pages
JobTicket creation (embedded or external .JTF) PDF Styles (allows for preset options — similar to Print Styles)

Objects
Bitmap compression (JPEG and LZW or None)
Bitmap DownSampling (different dpi values for monochrome, grayscale and color bitmaps)
Bitmap Encoding (Binary or ASCII 85 — the latter being the most compatible and portable)
Text and Font Options:
   – Export all text as curves
   – Embed fonts in document
   – Embed base 14 fonts
   – Convert TrueType® to Type 1
   – Compress Text
   – Subset Type fonts (% of charset — helps reduce embedded font sets size)

Advanced
Render complex fills as bitmaps (can improve print times)
Preserve document overprints (use to override manual color trapping)
Preserve half-tone screen information
Preserve Spot colors (or convert to CMYK)
Maintain OPI links
Fountain Steps (1 to 256)
EPS files (treated as PS or Images)
Color Profile Options:
   – Output all objects as CMYK, RGB or Grayscale Color Correction options
   – Set Profiles for composite and separations

Document
Bookmarks
   – Include hyperlinks
   – Generate Bookmarks
   – Generate Thumbnails
On start, display (controls how the PDF initially opens up in Adobe® Acrobat®
Reader or Exchange — as Page Only, Full-screen, Bookmarks or Thumbnails)

Together, these various PDF publishing options allow the PDFs to fit into particular workflows for whichever uses you require. Common option configurations can even be saved as a PDF Style and recalled for future use. To see the PDF publishing results yourself, publish a file to PDF and open it in Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 4.0, which is provided in the CorelDRAW 9 suite. We even invite you to compare this PDF published directly from DRAW 9, with one created by distilling a PostScript file from CorelDRAW. Assuming comparable PDF settings were used — the two PDFs should be very similar.

New PostScript® Driver Available for Windows® 95/98

Adobe recently released version 4.3 PostScript Driver for Windows 95 and 98. It is only of use to those using PostScript level 2 or 3 devices, and it adds some functionality to those using Acrobat Distiller version 4. For more information, or to download this driver, visit: http://www.adobe.com/supportservice/custsupport/LIBRARY/5712.htm

There are no early indications that this update will cause any problems for CorelDRAW users. One annoyance is that the readme is only accessible at the end of the driver’s installation — so you may want to print it for future reference.

Direct File Support for Corel Print House™/Office™ Files

Until CorelDRAW version 9, .CPH and .CPO files created in Corel Print House™ and Corel Photo House™ respectively, could not be imported directly into CorelDRAW (although CMX file exchange format provided a workaround). This isn’t the case with CorelDRAW 9, as it contains import filters for both of these file formats. (Note: You may have to do a Custom install of CorelDRAW to make these filters available however.

Technical Support Tales From Our Database

This Issue...CorelDRAW™ 8 and Type 1 fonts, DRAW® 9 issue, Known Extension Conflicts with DRAW8 on O/S 8.5.1 & Tips

Problem: Files created in CorelDRAW 8 using Type 1 fonts on a Windows NT® 4 system will appear differently then on systems not using CorelDRAW 8 on Windows NT. (E.g., CorelDRAW 9 or CorelDRAW 8 on Windows NT 4)
Description: The following is from the CorelDRAW 9 readme. The problem is a result of CorelDRAW 8 for NT not calculating Type 1 fonts accurately. "A discrepancy between Adobe Type1 font widths when creating and opening files across Microsoft Windows NT and Windows 9x was detected in CorelDRAW 8,and has been corrected in CorelDRAW 9. However, the new calculation has resulted in the following effects:

  1. A file created in CorelDRAW 9 (running on any Operating System), and then saved as a Version 8 file, will contain no font width discrepancy if opened in CorelDRAW 8 running on Windows NT. However, the text will appear narrower if the file is opened in CorelDRAW 8 running on Windows 9x.
  2. A file created in CorelDRAW 8 (running on Windows 9x), and opened in CorelDRAW 9 (running on Windows 9x), will cause the text to appear wider (as though you had opened it in CorelDRAW 8 (running on Windows NT). A file created in CorelDRAW 8 (running on Windows NT), will open just fine in CorelDRAW 9 running on any Operating System.
  3. There are no problems saving and opening CorelDRAW 9 files between Operating Systems. All the discrepancies described above affect the appearance of the file only, and there is no corruption in the data in the file."

Problem: An unexpected error occurs when attempting to open a CorelDRAW 8 CDR file into CorelDRAW 9. The resulting error may require CorelDRAW to be closed down via End Task in Windows.
Resolution: Can occur when the file contains a duotone bitmap that is powerclipped. After opening the original file into CorelDRAW 8 and either exporting it as CMX, or extracting the powerclip’s contents and resaving, the file could then be opened into CorelDRAW 9 without the error.

This problem is a known issue with the CorelDRAW 9 initial release and has been logged.

Known Problem Extensions with CorelDRAW™ 8 for PowerMac® using Macintosh O/S 8.5.1 on an Apple® G3 computer.

To disable these extensions, go to the Apple menu, control panels, extensions manager, use scroll bar to scroll down to extensions folder, locate above mentioned extensions, and remove the X beside extension to disable it.

Apple has posted a downloadable patch on their web site to address a problem with the ATI 3D Accelerator extensions. It can be downloaded from Apple's web site at the following URL: http://asu.info.apple.com/swupdates.nsf/artnum/n11262

Tips Using Print Styles in CorelDRAW®

Changing the Default Registration Marks
First, select the desired registration marks to be used as the new default from the Print Dialog’s Prepress section — under Registration Marks | Style. You will need to first check the Print Registration marks option before you can change the style. Once the Style is changed, remove the check from Print Registration Marks. Secondly, in the General tab of the Print Dialog, choose Save As in the Print Style section. You should then verify that in the Settings to Include section under Prepress, the Print Registration marks option is Checked. Lastly, save over the existing "CorelDRAW Defaults" settings file and choose Yes when prompted to overwrite.

Creating and Using Custom Print Styles in CorelDRAW® 9
Unlike previous versions of CorelDRAW, print styles in version 9 are saved to individual files. This lets you move a print style from one machine to another, back up a print style, and keep document specific styles in the same folder as the document file. Print Styles store the various print options available throughout CorelDRAW’s print dialog.

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