AGFA Reference Files available on Corel's FTP site

The IT8 reference data files for the IT-8 targets distributed with CorelDRAW® 9 Premium Color Edition have been made available in the following directory on Corel's main FTP site:

ftp://ftp.corel.com/pub/CorelDRAW/DRAW9Suite/PCE/ReferenceData/

Note that each file refers to a particular batch number for the AGFA IT-8 target, so download accordingly.

Corel at Graph Expo 99 - Chicago, IL Oct. 17-20th

Corel is proud to be attending this year's Graph Expo at McCormick Place South in Chicago, Illinois - October 17-20th. Several Corel representatives will be present to answer any questions you have either about our latest Corel products and/or the Corel® Approved Service Bureau program itself. Among the Corel representatives attending are three Corel Professional Graphics representatives who will be eager to address and demonstrate even the most high-end concerns about our graphics applications. If you will be attending this event, visit Booth #4725 and see the latest CorelDRAW® technology in action.

For general information about this event, refer to the following web site:

http://www.tsnn.com/gasc/gece/

CorelDRAW® 9 Service Pack 1 International availability

Within a month of releasing Service Pack 1 for the English version of CorelDRAW® 9, it is now also available for French, German and Italian localized versions and with other language to follow. Check the following FTP site:

ftp://ftp.corel.ie/pub/coreldraw/draw9suite/

Updating web links in CorelDRAW® 9

With improved web connectivity features in CorelDRAW® 9,-- Service Pack 1 for CorelDRAW® 9 you can even link directly from within CorelDRAW® 9 to obtain this latest Service Pack. Simply click the Help menu, select Corel on the Web and choose Yes at the prompt to update all Web links. Then if you go back to the same menu under Help, Corel on the Web, you will now see an option to ‘Download SP1', among other things.

Features in Action on Corel's web site

Features in Action is an online series of product demonstrations available from www.corel.com Product demonstrations pertain to Corel's latest products, Corel WordPerfect® Office 2000, CorelDRAW® 9, Corel VENTURA 8 and Corel PHOTO-PAINT® 9 and can be quite helpful, and can serve as a reference for you and your customers. A Scenario Training series has recently been added to provide practical examples of how Corel products can be used for a variety of tasks. New demonstrations are frequently added to this site so be sure to check back often.

Corel Service Bureau Profiler now available for Macintosh

Corel recently released a version of the Corel Service Bureau Profiler for the Macintosh as a free download. It can be found, along with the Windows version, from the following web site soon.

http://www.corel.com/partners_developers/casb/serviceb/PerfectImage/profiles.htm

This new and improved application was first introduced in the July 1999 issue of our Bureau Newsletter, where CASB members were encouraged to generate profiles for their customers to use and then e-mail them to us for distribution on Corel's web site. Now with a MAC version of this service bureau profiler being available, the process of profile creation has never been easier or more convenient.

Technical Support Tales From Our Database

This Issue...The Boss Effect in Corel PHOTO-PAINT® 9 and spot color blends with custom screen values in CorelDRAW® 9

Problem: When choosing Mesa or Flat Drop off presets using The Boss effect in Corel PHOTO-PAINT® 9, the results are not the same as in Corel PHOTO-PAINT® 8.

Explanation: Some significant changes were made to the core functionality of this effect between version 8 and 9, and as a result the same settings will differ in results when compared with the results of previous versions. Nonetheless, with some tweaking of values, similar results can be achieved. Corel is investigating the possibility of updating the presets to compensate for these differences in functionality.

Problem: When creating a blend between two different spot color objects in CorelDRAW® 9 and assigning the same Postscript Options to each, the PS options are not maintained for the intermediate blend objects. Ie. Assigning a screen of 150lpi and a diamond half-tone type to each parent object in the blend will result in only the two parent objects being affected and not intermediate objects.

Explanation: This issue is currently under investigation by Corel Product Development and should be addressed in a future update or release.

CorelNews is presented here as a portion of an original Corel Service Bureau News, distributed solely for Corel Authorized Service Bureaus (CASB). Content concerning only CASB's has been omitted for brevity. All other information is unaltered from original document content, only the layout has been changed. For more information, contact the Corel Authorized Service Bureau page at: http://casb.corel.com