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New Edition of CorelDraw X6

Friday, March 30th, 2012

One of the industry’s favorite tools for design and file production has been updated. Here is a list of what is latest in this edition.

Work Faster and More Efficiently:

Since organizing project assets and accessing the suite’s huge content library anywhere that you have an internet connection, to more quickly identifying available formatting options and removing surplus areas in photos, CorelDraw Graphics Suite X6 offers several workflow improvements that help you be more efficient and productive.

New! Multiple Trays in Corel CONNECT:

Corel CONNECT X6 now lets you work with several trays along with, which gives you enlarged flexibility for organizing assets for multiple projects. Trays help you gather content from different folders or online sources, and are shared between CorelDraw, Corel PHOTO-PAINT, and Corel CONNECT.

New! Search Capability in Corel CONNECT:

The new Corel CONNECT search toolbar lets you directly extract images from a client’s web site. You simply type a web address in the Search box and Corel CONNECT instantly gathers all images defined with an HTML <img> tag from the web site, making it quick and easy to leverage content assets from online sources. You can also type search terms or a folder pathway to have Corel CONNECT search your computer, network, or other online resources for content.

Additional New Features of CorelDraw:

  • New and enhanced! Online content
  • New! Object Properties docker
  • New! Smart Carver
  • New! Shape tools
  • New! Create clip mask
  • New! Pass Through Merge Mode
  • New & Enhanced! Multi-core processor support
  • New! Native 64-bit support
  • Enhanced! Adobe Plug-in support
  • New! SWiSH miniMax3
  • Create layouts with ease
  • New and enhanced! Master Layers
  • New! Page numbering
  • New! Alignment Guides
  • New! Interactive frames
  • New! Placeholder text
  • New! Advanced Open Type support
  • Enhanced! Complex script support
  • New! Proxima Font Expert 2010
  • Design with style and creativity
  • New! Color Styles and Harmonies
  • New! Pre-designed frames are now content-ready

 

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Arabic Typeface Catches the Think of designers

Monday, March 26th, 2012

Efforts being complete to reaffirm Arab identity at corporate level Dubai: There isn’t enough Arabic typefaces, said typographer Tarek Atrissi. It wasn’t so much an inspection as it was a declaration. One that obviously shouts out there is high demand for Arabic fonts, less supply.

Type designers Tarek Attrisi and Nadine Chahine speak about The Modern Arabic typeface in a workshop with students at the Tashkeel, Nad Al Sheba, and Dubai.

This fact is without help encouraging type designers and graphic design students in the Middle East to do something about it. That something was clear from Atrissi’s current workshop titled Arabesque, Identity and Arabic Typography, organized by Nuqat Design Conference 2012, where students were sketching forms of Arabic lettering.

There is an explosion in branding. For exclusive branding – whether it is signage or a logo – you need an exclusive typographic voice. Companies are pointed for unique typefaces. Companies are trying to repeat the Arab identity on a corporate level.

The co-host of the workshop, type designer Nadine Chahine, added: “Companies in the Gulf have extra budgets for branding. Given that typeface is an essential ingredient, there is new interest in Arabic type. Now some of these students at the workshop may be able to expand the letters they have sketched keen on a system and further extend it into a font.”

Chahine works at Linotype, Germany, a global contributor of superior quality typographic products and services. She has more than 18 fonts to her glory with the best-selling Frutiger Arabic and Koufiya.

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How REM made love fonts

Wednesday, November 9th, 2011

When REM announced they were splitting up, the news didn’t just mean that there would be no new music from the band. It also meant that there would be no new fonts, and that’s important to some people (like me!) because REM have always been very experimental when it comes to fonts. In fact, as a graphic designer who deals with fonts on a daily basis, I can say that it was REM who got me interested in this line of business in the first place.

Take a look at the cover of every REM album and you’ll see how the fonts kept changing. REM never just took off-the-shelf fonts and slapped them on their covers. For the past decade and a half, REM’s designs and fonts have mostly been the work of Michael Stipe and Chris Bilheimer. From the relatively simple white fonts of ‘Murmur’ and ‘Automatic for the People’ to the heavy stylisation of ‘Up’ and ‘Accelerate’, not all the fonts have been my cup of tea. But they have all, without exception, been interesting.

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Safari in OS X Lion replacing text with ‘block A’

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011

A few people are noticing after installing Lion that Safari may make fonts in Web sites incorrectly, and explain some or all of the text as a series of square blocks with the capital letter A in them.

Users who have had this problem have tried resetting Safari cookies and browser caches, but have not had any chance with these measures, indicating the problem is neither with site settings nor any conflicts with the browser’s cache.

One cause for this problem is that there may be a difference between varieties of fonts you have on the system, or there may be a problem with the font cache or other system caches. Therefore, to supervise these problems you can either validate fonts using Font Book to see if there are any font conflicts, or run various cleaning routines to clear system caches.

Validate fonts

Apple’s Font Book application can be used to supervise system fonts, including turning them on and off, as well as validating them to see if there are any conflicts. To run a Font validation, open Font Book and pick your fonts, followed by choosing Validate Fonts from the File menu. The system will check each font and explain you whether they have passed, or whether minor or major problems were found. After the custom has run, you can manage the problematic fonts by either removing them or disabling them, or otherwise fixing the specific question at hand.

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