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CorelDRAW X5 The Official Guide
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CorelDRAW X5 The Official Guide

by Gary David Bouton
September 2010
Intermediate to advanced
944 pages
26h 2m
English
McGraw-Hill
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CHAPTER 16 Outline Attributes

Chapter 15 covers only half the story about how you can flesh out a visual idea by using CorelDRAW. Although an object can usually live its life just fine without an outline, the attributes you can apply to a path can add a touch of refinement to an illustration. The right outline color can help visually separate different objects. Additionally, you can simulate calligraphic strokes without using artistic media when you know how to work with the Outline Pen dialog; you can even make a path a dashed line, complete with arrowheads for fancy presentations and elegant maps. In fact, an outline, especially an open outline, can live its life in your work just fine without defining a filled object! You don’t have to draw ...

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