can someone tell me how to setout out a page in corel x3?

[Nick Minall]

Make the page A3 then go to print> layout> Imposition layout then paly with the settings, if you look at print preview you can set it up there as well.

[Alan Drury]

For single card
Set your page size to the size of your card
Design card
Click print and from box choose printer and page size of output ie A3
Click print preview
Click imposition layout tool (2nd icon down on left)
From spinner on horizontal bar type x and Y number ie 2 up – 2 out
From edit basic settings choose gutters & finishing from dropdown
Clicking on the horizontal or verticla join will turn red and you can type gutter width in box
Your cards are displayed as grey boxes with numbers and arrows, clicking on the arrows will turn card upside down, if you had more than 1 card ie 4 cards on 4 separate pages altering the number here would enable all cards or 2 of 1 etc.
Click on marks placement tool (below imposition tool) your cards are now viewable complete choose either to separate in which case all marks will be on separated plates and you can view each separation or just choose which marks you want from horizontal bar. Some printers want marks but will separate their end.
Click print icon and you are done.
These tools work the same way when printing to Acrobat/Curepdf or similar and is a great way of producing imposition imposition pdf’s – being able to view separated plates before anything goes anywhere.
By also using layers you can turn off boarders or for items common to all cards/pages have them appear or not.
Alan D

[George Elsmore]

Hi Alan/Nick, I have tried that and it seems to make the page seperate into 4 and the card go into the corner of each page?? I told you i was cr@p at page layout 😕

Cheers

George

[Chris Wool]

keep going chaps i learning a new trick here 😀

[George Elsmore]

getting there the card size is the page size in corel x3 first! duh! just playing with the crop marks and gutters now will keep you posted if i get where i wanna go 😀

[Alan Drury]

I’m still here if there is anything you need clarifying.
Alan D

[George Elsmore]

Alan, if i wanted to put bleed on the card where is the facility to do this in this process please?

Thanks

George

[Alan Drury]

From print diologue box – layout tab – click bleed limit and then value. This is primarily used so that a object/image can extend beyond the page by any large amount on the work screen and will be trimmed to that value at print time.
Alan D

[George Elsmore]

Alan i have done a 100mm x 100mm square lets say i put 3mm bleed on, i set out the imposition and crop marks for cutting/guillotining but after doing what you said i still have 100mm squares thus if it was colour when trimmed it could possibly have white lines if cut slightly off which i do not want?? hopefully you know what i mean ..it does not seem to be adding the bleed?

George

[Alan Drury]

Your page size would be 100mm – your background shape needs to be 106mm or more. Say you made your background shape 150mm the bleed limit you set would crop it to that limit at print time only and would be viewable in print preview, the shape would still be 150mm when you returned to the work screen.
I must get round to them tutorial videos 🙂
Alan D

[Chris Wool]

thanks all that could save time over our normal way.
got the bleed sorted vs size of card.
until i try it how about double sided cards.
we do them fine at present but this could save manual layout

chris

[Alan Drury]

Chris – re double sided card say 3 cards with 3 different names, each has a common back.
3 fronts go on pages 1 – 2 – 3 the back on 4
in print preview set 6 up – 2 horizontal – 3 vertical
number the 3 vertical on left as 1,2 & 3
number the 3 vertical on right as all 4
When displayed the 3 left will the 3 different names with the right ones all displaying the back details.

For 6 up horizontal similar thing but you may need then head to head in which case click on the arrows and the card will turn 180

Also remember that you can have a page sorter view from the work screen, you can reorder your pages from there.
Alan D

[Tim Painter]

Alan in X3 do you need to select Custom Binding to Imposition like that as per previous draw versions?

One other thing you may or may not do at present Chris.

I believe you print to your OKI’s.

When you print the back side I would dump the crop marks from the output as it’s very unlikely that they will be bang on inline from one side to another. You can then trim without getting and fine remains of crop marks on the reverse.

Not teaching you to suck eggs hope this is of help.

Tim.

[Alan Drury]

Tim, mine is set at ‘perfect binding’
You can choose custom binding for doing books and stuff which is also head to head with many signatures and then saving that for future use.
Alan D

[Chris Wool]

thanks tim no i am learning here.

so which way to flip the card to put back in the printer,
at present we turn over short edge and print the back rotating the images 180 deg, which works fine.and can calibrate print pos on the printer.
so i would turn these over long edge ?

pages and layers have caused me so many problems in the past that i fight shy of them.

now found that if i use zoom in the print preview x3 i loose the image all ok in v10 though

thanks allan & tim

chris

[Alan Drury]

Keep you object manager docker open and layers become more usable. Chris which bit of layers are you not sure of, I’ll clarify if I can.
Alan D

[Tim Painter]

Chris which way you flip doesn’t matter – obviously your printer feeds short edge at A3 long @ A4 I assume.

All you have to do is make sure the leading edge that is drawn into the printer is the correct one so the reverse print is the correct orientation in respect to the front print.

[Alan Drury]

Corel comes with a duplex wizard which can print test pages for correct orientation for reload. Trial and error on the printer works too 🙂
Alan D