New Tutorial Videos - Engraving Etc. Forum

From:	Harvey only (HARVEY-ONLY)	28 Dec 2006
To:	sprinter	24 of 36

5421.24 In reply to 5421.23
quote: Your assumptions are wrong......I do have a life and didn't realize I had an obligation to answer your questions within minutes of your posting. No you do not have a responsibility to even answer it at all. That being said, on this forum you have a responsibility to answer it in a bit more courteous fashion. Philadelphia, PA (Really Bensalem) When you finally understand it completely... it changes.

From:	Pedaler (ROYBREWER)	28 Dec 2006
To:	Laser Image (LASER_IMAGE)	25 of 36

5421.25 In reply to 5421.11
quote: I just went through the "defaults" tutorial and everything seemed to work except when I open corel the text, nudge and duplicate distances revert back to the default instead of what I just changed it to. Any idea what I missed? (I have X3) Gary, I'm a bit puzzled by your inclusion of "text" since those defaults seem to stick very well; the nudge/DupeOffsets are a bit contrary. Corel continues to modify the way defaults work and there are differences in each major version and often a patch will make a slight change; I'll try to make a very generic response that I think will work with all modern versions of Corel (9-x3). For most reliable results: --- exit out of Corel ---reRun corel ---create new empty document ---make your changes in defaults as the tutorial suggests. Then ---Tools>Save SettingsAs Defaults ---Tools>Options>Document -------Save Settings as Defaults for New Documents ------------check all boxes then OK ---Immediately exit out of Draw While the above appears to have some duplication, there are a few defaults "registered" by one save and missed by the other. Also, at least one version (is it 10?) that doesn't even have the Tools>Save SettingsAs Defaults option. As Harvey pointed out, most of these values are what Corel calls "docucentric," so if you open an earlier document the values that were present when it was saved will dominate. Understand that the whole process is Save Settings as Defaults for new* documents. Harvey mentioned having problems with 9. These are some* things that are known to mess up your carefully created defaults: ---Shutting down Corel with a multitude of files in memory. ---Crashing Corel. ---Having multiple instances of Corel in memory The real gurus suggest that you export your Workspace [[Tools>Options>Workspace>Export...]]]. While this saves/restores most of your environment there are a few important ones it does not, so that is not a complete solution. For us, the real value of exporting/importing workspaces is to get all PCs to have most of the same settings. Roy Brewer http://www.engravingconcepts.com Epilog/Xenetech distributor

From:	Laser Image (LASER_IMAGE)	28 Dec 2006
To:	Pedaler (ROYBREWER)	26 of 36

5421.26 In reply to 5421.25

Roy,
thanks for the reply. It seems that it was the template I was opening - it had the font, nudge and duplicate values saved and was bringing them into the "new" document I created from that template.
I made the changes and saved the template with those changes and now everything is fine.

Thank you for your help with this and thank you for your tutorials!

Hopefully Jeanette told you how much I appreciated your merge tutorial and how well it worked for a slew of name badges and plaques I recently made.

Thanks,
Gary

From:	jeanettebrewer (JEANETTEBREWER2)	15 Jan 2007
To:	shari	29 of 36

5421.29 In reply to 5421.28

Shari,

Knowing dad, he'll put up more videos the next time he's asked a question that's easier answered with a video than with a phone discussion. Could be next week ... might be several months!

While certainly not free, I promise you'll get your money's worth if you buy the ARA 3-CD set that has many of those tutorial videos included. $69 for the set.

http://www.engravingconcepts.com/corel-cds.htm

Jeanette Brewer
ENGRAVING CONCEPTS
(formerly Brewer Sales)
Epilog & Xenetech Distributor
www.engravingconcepts.com

From:	Dave Jones (DAVERJ)	15 Mar 2007
To:	Mido	32 of 36

5421.32 In reply to 5421.31

Do you have Flash player installed in your browser? If not, you might want to go to http://www.adobe.com and download and install the free Flash Player there.

I just tried the first link in her post and it worked fine for me, even though I did see a "ScreenCast Loading" image up there for a little while even after I could hear the tutorial start playing.

...Dave
Dave Jones Design

From:	jeanettebrewer (JEANETTEBREWER2)	15 Mar 2007
To:	Mido	33 of 36

5421.33 In reply to 5421.31

I'm not sure what the problem might be. I clicked on the links (in message 1) and they worked on my PC ... but maybe it's because I've run them before??

Obviously, I'm not the computer geek in our family business!

Perhaps someone else who's reading this could check to see if the links are working for them?

Alternatively, you could go to our website www.engravingconcepts.com -- click on Downloads -- click on Tutorials -- click on Flash Tutorials -- click on Flash CorelDRAW -- click on the video you want to view. Whew! That's a lot of clicking!

If it still doesn't work, let me know and I'll get the geeks on the case to figure it out.

Jeanette Brewer
ENGRAVING CONCEPTS
(formerly Brewer Sales)
Epilog & Xenetech Distributor
www.engravingconcepts.com