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Placing an Image inside text using Powerclip – Based on CorelDraw Version 12

November 3, 2009 CorelDraw Help, Sidebar No Comments
Placing an Image inside text using Powerclip – Based on CorelDraw Version 12
Placing an image inside some text
By Mike Clarke
Oct 2, 2003, 00:05
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Creating Text that is filled with an Image – Using CorelDraw’s Power Clip

There are times where you may want to superimpose text on top of an image so that the image shows through the text. This is quite easy and can be a very good selling feature.

First let us load in a picture and some text. Figure 1 shows some text called “Power Clip” and a photo. … Continue Reading

CorelDraw X4 Review Part 2 – Engraving Fonts

November 2, 2009 CorelDraw Versions No Comments
CorelDraw X4 Review Part 2 – Engraving Fonts

Before we go into talking about Corel’s engraving fonts we first need to know what we consider to be an engraving font. Tome an engraving font is not a font that “looks” like a so called engraving font but is one that more resembles a font that we typically use in a rotary engraving machine. You could make the argument that Windows fonts for the laser are engraving fonts but when I think of engraving fonts than I will think of those for a rotary machine. This is what Corel was attempting to give us. … Continue Reading

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