CorelDRAW Imposition Technology (I)

When it comes to the scope of prepress production, one has to mention the typesetting of books or magazines. Because of the standard and industry standardization of books and magazines, this method has certain skill and execution. At present, most of the printing factories are mostly in the way of manual imposition for the bookmaking and imposition of books and magazines. However, with the gradual promotion of electronic digital typography, computer typesetting will certainly replace the operation of manual imposition. For the selection of computer typesetting software, most of the domestic producers currently use PageMaker, Beida Founder and some graphic software such as CorelDRAW, Illustrator, and FreeHand. Some foreign-funded enterprises are in the process of introducing more advanced science to mainland production personnel. Professional publishing software, such as QuarkXPress. Here, apart from other typesetting software such as PageMaker and QuarkXPress, I chose to use CorelDRAW, a large-scale specialized software that combines the most extensive graphics and typesetting currently used in China, to introduce some simple typesetting.

CorelDRAW is a professional drawing software, and it is also a very powerful typesetting software. There are almost no books or publications that can be seen in the market. The vast majority of domestic graphic designers and prepress production personnel are all required to understand and master it, and another image processing software, Photoshop, constitutes an indispensable tool for graphic designers to take up posts.

1. Arrangement of layout

The default page layout of CorelDRAW's work environment is to use a type of A4 office paper that is widely used internationally. This type of paper is oriented to the office rather than the layout of book magazines. Therefore, we are using CorelDRAW to do layout work for book magazines. At this time, we must make some settings for this layout. Of course, we can also completely ignore the existence of this kind of paper, and use another better method to deal with the work environment settings we want to perform. That is to use some rectangular boxes. Visually represent the actual paper requirements we want.

The method introduced in this article is not based on the typesetting method required by CorelDRAW software itself. Instead, it is based on personal experience of the prepress work performed by the person. The purpose is to hope that some prepress work can be done. The production staff initiates an elaboration and opens up another layout for readers and friends. Therefore, if there are readers who are skeptical about the typesetting method of this article, it is not necessary to carry out some unnecessary suspicions, but it is entirely possible to find more suitable ones according to the methods described in this article and in combination with their practical experience in practical work. The typesetting method, of course, the typesetting method described in this article is believed to be more suitable for some beginners who have just engaged in prepress work.

For readers who are prepared to refer to this book using CorelDRAW for book publishing, this article does not have any technical prerequisites. It only requires readers and friends to call up the CorelDRAW program from the Windows Start → Programs menu.

After CorelDRAW is opened, a new desktop window similar to Word and other office software is created. As shown in Figure 1, only some menu items and tools are different.

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Select the tool tool of the toolbox. Click any mouse in any position in the work window and drag it in a certain direction. A rectangle box will be drawn in the window. You can change the box in the lower right corner or just below the box. The size of the marker, use the mouse to hold it here and then drag in a direction to change the horizontal or vertical size of the box, here we set the box to 170mmx257mm size (assuming the finished product size is A4 size and four peripherals From each 2cm), as shown.

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By clicking the left mouse button in this box, you can enter text.

In a normal book or magazine, it is not possible to have only simple symbols such as text. We will also insert some pictures and other objects according to the needs of different articles or layouts. In CorelDRAW, you can insert external images that have been processed by other software, or you can use your own powerful drawing function to create some images to insert. Regardless of the form of the imported images, we must embed them into the text.

The work of inserting pictures into text is very simple. Just select the picture you want to insert, and set it in the “Paragraph Text Wrap” on the Formatting toolbar. In this tool, CorelDRAW provides us with a rich text reframing function, which can be left or right, or up and down or four sides, etc., as shown in the figure.

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When inserting pictures into text, CorelDRAW's good pre-press automatization function has already pre-set the specifications for the specification of pictures and texts. Of course, we can also do some self-definitions according to our needs or the needs of the layout. Define the settings so that the picture and text are embedded more beautifully or reasonably. Figure 4 shows the effect of inserting a picture into text.

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