Thick text when converting artistic text to curves

[Jim Maher]

Hi,

I just upgraded to Corel 9 and have a problem when I convert text to
curves or when I export a CDR file to EPS file.

The text and object become thicker even though no outline is being used.

Any Ideas on what is going on?

Jim Maher

[Paul McGee]

Subject often comes up here. Usually the screen is telling fibs to you -
others have identified this as being that Draw displays text very finely
(hinting, smoothing, etc.) and when converted to curves the display is
not as finely presented.

And of course, there is the unlikely possibility that you accidentally
set an outline on the curve without realizing it. One or two people here
had that happen, but almost always it's just the screen representation.
(Same applies to print preview I think.)

[Nick Wilkinson]

Jim,

It's because CorelDRAW is pooh at antialiasing! CorelXara is much better at
doing it. Stroll on over to
http://www.btinternet.com/~n.wilkinson/antialiasing/aunty_alice.htm to see
the various flavours of antialiasing in Corel products - and the best isn't
even Canadian, just licensed to Corel from Xara in the UK.

We are still waiting to be vaguely impressed by Corel in this. However,
it's still better than looking at an aliased display.

Nick.

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[Debbie Cook]

> pooh

Oh bother. ;-)

Interesting webpage.

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Debbie Cook
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[Nick Wilkinson]

> Interesting webpage.

Thank you.

More interesting, although not pertaining to the current thread, is
http://www.isocalc.com

Nick.
ni...@isocalc.com

[Debbie Cook]

> More interesting, although not pertaining to the current thread, is
> http://www.isocalc.com

BTW ... been meaning to mention that you need to name your webpages so that
bookmarks don't show up as a blank. ;-)

[Nick Wilkinson]

> BTW ... been meaning to mention that you need to name your webpages so
that
> bookmarks don't show up as a blank. ;-)

THanks for the heads-up. I raised this and a couple of other problems with
my host provider, and it's to do with the way that it's hosted: the domain
is hosted by one company, and, to save money, the website is hosted
somewhere else. The domain host provides a single, full-screen frame that
dummies and passes the browser over to the other host which fills the frame.
Unfortunately, the user's browser uses the main frame's title info for the
bookmark title, and, for whatever Birmingham reason, they've set it to the
rather unintuitive "index.html" or something. I have no control over it,
short of turning up on their doorstep with a 12-bore ping-pong bat (would
hate to use any more force than necessary), or by voting with my feet, but
funds quite literally do not allow at this time.

The other niggle I have is that I have tried setting up a Favorites icon
(MSIE only) but this has to be referenced in the main frame, which I can't
do myself and they are being less than helpful.

As for the website, I am frantically writing help files at the moment, as I
don't want anyone to think that the software is a pile of pooh -- it
requires some explanation, not because it's difficult to use, but it
represents a major step forward in the way people can do isometric (et al)
things in CorelDRAW. It's kind of like what MechDesktop does for AutoCAD,
IsoCalc does for CorelDRAW. At least that's the way I like to think of it.

Now, back to those humungous help files (only three times the size of the
program itself so far!).

Cheers,

Nick.