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adding a border/boundary box to a vector graphic in corel x4
I’ve got a little logo which is going to be printed on garments – the logo works fine on white garments but against dark colours it doesn’t stand out as well as it should.
I could hand draw a boundary and spend ages faffing around getting the individual nodes into position (it’s quite an odd shaped graphic) but I just wondered if there’s a way of getting a ‘curve’ to wrap around the object at a set radius/distance via a variable box?
Any advice on this would be greatly appreciated 🙂 paul w
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Not sure I understand fully what you are trying to do but can you not group the elements and use the contour tool?
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I’ll have a look for the contour tool in a sec, basically take something like this:
and warp it to look like this but better:
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I tried the contour tool but because the logo is made up of lots of individual objects the interactive contour isn’t working like it would with a simple shape.
I’ve tried combining the shapes into one but where the outlines overlap it creates a confusing hashed up mess…
Thinking it might just be quicker to do it by hand now
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You could copy all the elements, paste, then weld.
Then contour that as thick as you like and then separate the contour group apart, deleting the original shape.
Make sure your contour tool doesn’t add about a gazillion extra nodes like mine does.
Then send the contour to the back.
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Are all these shapes vectors, if so use the boundary tool, you can add a countour to that. Multiple shapes can be grouped rather than combined and a contour applied. Try both ways for best effect.
Jill if you are using V12 the contour does produce lots of straight lines, you can use reduce nodes and get better results, X3 and onwards used curves for contour and is much better.
Alan D -
Jill, your love is much appreciated – exactly what I was after 😀
not quite as large a contour as I’d like (corel starts to invert the contour for some reason) but it’s near enough to get it to the point where I want it 😀
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Alan I am going to try to get X3 or X4 by the end of summer (just got a loan for a new roof so I have to watch my funds)
Definitely time to upgrade.
Paul glad you understood my explanation, I still suck at Corel and learn something new by mistake every day. -
Always glad to help Jill, I’m still finding stuff about Draw myself.
Alan D
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