E-PUBLISHING LABORATORY 1.

BIT NOTICEDESIGN TEXT EFFECTS Aim

To design a bit notice to illustrate the various text effects in CorelDraw.

Tools Required
System with CorelDraw graphics suite X4 installed.

Procedure
1. a. b. c. d. Start CorelDraw. Open a new document. Click Layout menu and then Page setup. Select Page Size as A4. Click and expand Guidelines.

e.

Select Presets. f. Click the check boxes Bleed area and Printable Area. g. Close Options by clicking ok. New dotted lines appear showing the selected presets.

2. Click the text tool on the toolbar. 3. Type the text preferably using thick font. Such as Impact.

4. Select Interactive Contour Tool from the flyout menu from the tool box. Its 10th from the top.

5. Create the Contour effect using Interactive Contour Tool. Drag it over the text. Keep the text selected. Using following properties edit the effect properly. Remember to use Inside Contour. 6. You will get following effect. Keep the text selected.

7. Open fountain Fill window. Change the angle to 90. Click on the step icon to select it and add 2 for the steps. Choose the desired colors. Click OK. Then click and choose desired color for Fill and End Fill color from the Interactive Fill Property bar.

8.

This would give the following effect.

9. Now Click Text tool button. Click and drag the mouse below the right corner of the text designed above. A dotted line window appears. Release the mouse button. A text frame appears. Type in the text.

10. From the property bar for text choose appropriate justification needed say right in this case.

11. Next click the ellipse tool and create a filled circle. a. Then click the complex star under the polygon fly-out. b. Draw a complex star over the circle and fill it with the color shown. c. Then click on the text tool. Create a text on the star as shown below.

12. Choose font ZapfEllipt BT 72 points and type the text shown below with only outline and no fill.

13. Draw a rectangle as shown below. No fill. Select both text and rectangle using pick tool.

14. Select Arrange in the menu bar. Then select Combine. Select a dark blue fill color from the color palette.. The text should appear as shown below.

15. Draw a rectangle covering entire text as shown in figure. 16. Choose Arrange from the menu bar. The select Order. Select back One option. The appearance should be like the one shown below. Now the text as well as yellow color rectangle with pick tool. Select Group from the Arrange menu.

17. Double click the above group of items and rotate as necessary using the rotate handles. 18. Now create a text frame as shown.

19. Select Columns options from the Text menu. The dialog shown below appears.

20. Enter number of columns as 3 and click ok button. The text frame divides into three columns. 21. Click and select the Show/Hide Bullet(Ctrl+M) button on the text menu bar. 22. Choose Bullet from the Text menu. Make the changes needed to select desired bullet font, bullet symbol and size from the dialog that pops-up.

23. Type in the text as shown below.

24. The text and words in the ellipse shown above do not uniform spacing between letters. Say for example the word switching is spread with more spaces in between so as force justification. This may be adjusted through inter character space kerning from the Character formatting dialog opened by selecting the option character formatting in the text menu.

25. Type and format the following text. Apply a shadow to the formatted text using Interactive Shadow tool in the tool bar.

26. Create three more text frames as shown in the figure below at the bottom of the page.

27. First box uses Arial heading & Monotype Corsiva body text fonts and Left justification of text 28. Middle box uses Kharon4a bold heading & BernHardMod BT body text fonts and center justification of text 29. Third box uses Benguiat Bk Bt heading & Futura Md BT body text fonts and right justification of text 30. Draw filled rectangle covering the first text box. Press Shift+PgDn or send back the filled rectangle through menu options Arrange Order To Back of Layer.

31. Draw another rectangle covering the Heading (Vehicle Loan). This time use Ctrl+PgDn or Back one option to send back the rectangle.

32. Create similar effects for the other two text frames and the final effect may be like the one shown below. The big P in the first box is a Dropcase text effect.

33. Import, place and size the necessary graphics to add a nice look to the design as shown in figure. 34. Click and draw a banner ribbon shape as shown in figure by way of selecting Basic Shapes tool.

35. Click the text tool. Hover the text tool icon over the edge of the shape. Click at the position where the icon changes to an I beam and a tilde(~) appears beneath the A. Starting typing the text fitting it along the curved path as shown in the figure.

36. Similarly hover the text tool icon over the border of the shape. At one position when the place of the icon is inside the border the tilde(~) would disappear. Click at the position and starting filling the text inside the shape as shown in the figure. 37. Apply fill effects. Result Thus a bit notice is designed using the various the various text effects in CorelDraw.