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Scrap Booking Online with Word Perfect and Corel Graphics Suite
Anne Hart
September 15, 2004
Now you can email your entire scrap book to relatives and friends around the world.
Comparing CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12 to WordPerfect Office Suite 12 For Scrapbooking Online.
Making Time Capsules of family history using graphic design and desktop publishing software? Scrap booking newsletters and journals with photos and illustrations online or emailed are becoming popular to send around the world because they weigh nothing. Do your newsletters feature more graphics or text? If you want to design newsletters, how do you choose between CorelDRAW12 and WordPerfect Office 12? What does CorelDraw Graphics Suite 12 offer the newsletter designer? How do you compare the two software applications to see which one to buy or both if you want to create newsletters, whether for business or your annual family history time capsules?
“I complete design tasks twice as fast because the tools reduce the number of steps required to finish jobs,” says Jim Kendall, of Memory Way Time Capsules, (memoryway@hotmail.com), a Northern California freelance newsletter designer who specializes in genealogy. “I can create graphics in CorelDRAW12 and quickly pop them into all my text-based WordPerfect 12 office documents because switching between files is very easy.
“The tools reduce the number of times you have to click on your mouse to finish jobs. The reduction in the number of steps is due to the three integrated graphics applications and other tools in one package.”
What’s the result? Bottom line, it’s time saved as well as finger movements on the mouse reduced.
“I like the one-step control of the Smart Drawing tool,” says Kendall. “The intelligence recognizes shapes and interprets freehand. My forms are balanced. All I do is put the object where I want it, turn on the Dynamic Guides, and watch the guides change so I can position objects with fewer steps, and snap to different points.”
“WordPerfect 12 is for my text material, and CorelDRAW 12 is for my visual work, “says Kendall. “Options are important. So that’s why I chose WordPerfect Office 12. I generate PDF documents from WordPerfect 12 and Presentations 12 without Adobe Acrobat or other PDF-generating tools. My whole collection of newsletters can be saved as a PDF document or book,” says Kendall. “It’s important to be able to optimize the size or resolution of PDF files, and WordPerfect Office 12 has a powerful PDF publishing engine.”
When you compare CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12 to WordPerfect Office Suite12, which are best for promoting your writing through newsletters? Both applications are used for creating newsletters. Which one will you use? That depends upon whether you are creating a graphically-rich family history newsletter or time capsule and want to use visual. If your newsletter or time capsule is graphically-rich, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12 is the ideal software because it is the easiest graphics suite to use for newsletters or time capsules.
To make a time capsule family history newsletter, layout your page using CorelDRAW. You can layout one page at a time. Then use Corel PHOTO-PAINT for digital imaging, that is working with photos or other digital (electronic, computerized images) art work, illustrations, or photos. What you get in CorelDRAW are hundreds of clip art photos and images. You can overlay your own family photos on top of the clip art textures and images as a second layer to form a background of various places or clouds, for example.
These applications, combined with the suite’s vast collection of photos, clipart, and fonts let you design either a professional-looking newsletter or a family history time capsule, a memorable album or container of the highlights of your life or any one else’s.
If you don’t want to design a lot of visuals into your family history chronicle, use Corel’s WordPerfect Office 12 to create a text-based newsletter. Use the software package’s newsletter template. It’s the best alternative to Microsoft Office. You can use WordPerfect 12 to create that annual family history newsletter that you send out to all your relatives or advertise your genealogy business.
What do you do with all those annual family newsletters you send out to relatives each year at holiday time? Gather them all together from each relative. Newsletters have gone out each year for many years for some families. Put them into a book. One of the best newsletters you can create from family highlights is a book.
Here are several ways of turning family history newsletters into a publication worthy of binding as a book or putting on the Web or in a time capsule as an heirloom:
Take a number of family history newsletters and use Corel’s WordPerfect to publish as a PDF file format. In that way, your newsletters are optimized for document distribution, editing, or the Web. You can access family history contact information from your address book directly within WordPerfect 12. Then you can use Perfect-Expert to detail your projects. Create versatile spreadsheets of genealogy time tables or do 3D charting of your family trees.
Convert your family history into meaningful 3D-rendered charts. Use the graphics tools to manipulate photos and drawings or other visuals. Best of all, a family history time capsule or compilation of yearly family history newsletters deserves to add stunning multimedia. Enhance your family newsletter presentation with movies, animation, and MP3 or WMA sounds. It’s all done with Corel WordPerfect12.
You can play the slide shows for family members or genealogists or send them to the Web. Use Show on the Go, which is in WordPerfect12. Then publish the slide shows to HTML documents and send them up to the Web for a time capsule in cyberspace online.
What’s CorelDRAW? CorelDRAW Graphics Suite is a vector editing program that includes Corel PHOTO-PAINT for bitmap-editing with photos and images that are saved as bitmap image files. How many times have you found photos saved as bitmap images on the Web? Now you can work with photos and images saved as bitmap files using CorelDRAW Graphics Suite.
CorelDRAW 12 for illustration, page-layout and vector drawing includes Corel PHOTO-PAINT 12 for professional digital imaging; and Corel R.A.V.E. 3 for motion-graphics creation. The whole idea is that the new tools emphasize reducing design time so productivity is increased. Users can snap to any or all of the following: Node, Intersection, Midpoint, Quadrant, Tangent, Perpendicular, Edge of objects and lines, Center, Text Baseline or Printable Area.
Training:
Available in online, printed and CD-ROM formats, WordPerfect Office Suite 12 training resources are provided by highly qualified Corel training partners, all of whom offer customers easy-to-follow instruction on how to maximize their usage of WordPerfect Office 12 the industry's most value-priced, feature-rich Microsoft(R) Office-compatible office suite.
"Corel-approved training tools are the best way to maximize the value of an office suite that's recognized for its ease of use--whether you buy WordPerfect Office 12 in-store, online or bundled with a new computer," said Richard Carriere, General Manager of Office Productivity for Corel. "With over 20 million existing users as well as thousands of new users choosing WordPerfect every month, WordPerfect Office 12 training resources are designed to suit a user's training needs, regardless of their preferred medium."
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