Mastering CorelDRAW 4

Writer and editor Chris Dickman assembles a formidable team of DRAW professionals to tackle such subjects as page layout, slide creation, color theory, and advanced type topics as well as covering sister programs CorelSHOW, CorelCHART, CorelPHOTOPAINT, CorelMOVE, and CorelTRACE. The authors focus on undocumented features, examining complex DRAW topics not covered anywhere else. Includes a disk packed with almost 3 MB of DRAW and Windows utilities.CorelDRAW 4 is a powerful and complex program, requiring a formidable team of DRAW professionals to tackle the subject: Chris Dickman, the lead author, with Tony Cook, Sherwood Fleming, Michael Kieran, Jim Phillips, Steve Roth, Steve Sagman, Courtland Shakespeare, Steve Schubitz, Daniel Will-Harris and Rich Zaleski. The authors focus on features undocumented in the program manual, and technical issues not covered anywhere else. This 750-page book is designed for all skill levels, but particularly for experienced users who want to quickly familiarize themselves with CorelDRAW 4's features. Bound into the book is a disk packed with almost 3MB of DRAW and Windows utilities (all freeware or shareware).
As the leading graphics application for Windows, CorelDRAW offers with version 4 a wealth of enhancements over version 3: more than 750 fonts; two CDs featuring type, clip art, animation and sound libraries; the ability to handle up to 999 pages of text (making it useful for page layout); 99 levels of Undo; drag-and-drop access to symbol libraries, over 40 fractal textures; and dozens of other powerful features. (While version 5 has become the high-end Windows-graphics application of choice, CorelDRAW 3 and 4 are still selling briskly as economical alternatives. Therefore, Peachpit will continue to offer its popular books on the older versions as well.)