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SmartDesigner X3

Overview

Turn CorelDRAW 12 or X3 into an Industry Specific Graphics System

Smart Designer X3 is a revolutionary software that enhances the capabilities of CorelDRAW 12 or X3. With Smart Designer X3 installed, over 110 new menus are added to CorelDRAW. Each new feature is designed to both automate and simplify the process of designing and producing graphics. Smart Designer X3 transforms CorelDRAW from a general graphics program into an industry specific graphics system for screen printing, sign making, direct to garment printing, sublimation printing, laser engraving, embroidery and promotional products.

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Templates and Layouts

Smart Designer Templates: Creates designs automatically by combining text, clip art and stock layouts.

Property Editor: Turn any design into a Smart Template and easily edit or change text values or clip art

Product Blanks: Places selected design on a product template or sales sheet layout

Athletic Tails: Instantly create athletic tails and integrate text effects

Class Names: Inserts a list of class names into a date or shape

Import Art

Clip Art Browser: Manages all clip art content on your computer including special importing features.

Favorites: Instantly import a clip art image or place a design on a product template with a click of the mouse

Printing and Cutting

Insert Separation Marks: Insert separation marks for printing or cutting

Print Flash Base: Prints solid or halftone underbase for screen printing on dark garments

Shaping

Create Contour: Automatically create a cuttable contour around a vector graphic for print and cut applications

Create Split Front: Divide designs into separate panels with overlapping seams for split front jersey applications

Effects

Text Effects: Automatically create text effects including inlines, outlines, drop shadows, circle text, and more

Edge Effects: Instantly apply bitmap effects to vector objects to create frames or borders

Overlays: Instantly apply a variety of weathered looking overlays to any graphic to create a worn appearance

Color

Swap Colors: Sophisticated tool for swapping or grouping colors

Workspace and Options

Change Workspace: Change Workspaces inside CorelDRAW

Attach a New Program: Attaches any open program as a tabbed workspace that can be instantly accessed

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Enhancements

200 Design Features

Smart Designer adds over 200 additional design and production features to CorelDRAW. CorelDRAW is a desk top publishing software. Smart Designer customizes CorelDRAW for the screen printing, sign making, awards, embroidery, printing and promotional products industries.

Automation

Smart Designer automates and simplifies complex production and design techniques. Instead of having to master complex production and design steps, click on a menu, make your selection and Smart Designer will do all the work.

Clipart Browser

Smart Designer integrates all of the Smart Designs production-ready art CD-ROMs with CorelDRAW. Clip art, logos and product templates from any Smart Designs CD can be previewed and imported with a mouse click.

Templates

Smart Designer adds a Smart Templates feature to CorelDRAW. The software will allow the user to make quick and easy changes in a template including changing text, swapping graphics and sizing to a specific product.

Add-On Software

Smart Designer integrates CorelDRAW with optional add-on production modules including the Font Expert font recognition module, DRAWings embroidery software, SmartVECTOR Pro bitmap to vector conversionmodule, and CoCUT Pro direct vinyl cutting module.

10 Reasons to Upgrade to Smart Designer X3

NEW Clipart CD Drive Copier: Automatically copies clip art from a CD and creates a virtual CD image on your hard drive. This enables Smart Designer users to install the clip art on their Smart Designs CD's and use the interactive features of the Clip Art Browser without having the CD in the drive.

NEW Object Cleanup: Clean up vector artwork by selecting an object(s) and automatically convert it to a perfect square, circle or ellipse. Type set text by automatically replacing individual letters or lines of traced text with a live font.

IMPROVED Tutorial Docker: Access interactive video tutorials and play them directly inside Smart Designer X3 with Windows Media Player. Split the screen while viewing a tutorial and start, stop or pause tutorials as you practice along. Tutorials are now divided into categories by product and additional tutorials can be downloaded and installed from the Internet.

NEW Art Preparation Features: This is an entirely new category of features designed to automate the process of preparing artwork for production. Automated features reduce colors, consolidate multiple blacks, convert designs to spot colors, convert designs to specific color palettes, make whites printable, convert images to black and white, trap colors, remove small elements and more.

NEW Effects Bar: All effects have been consolidated to the Effects Bar which docks at the bottom of your CorelDRAW workspace. 6 new effects categories have been added including textures, patterns, power clips, vector fills, backgrounds/drop shadows and bitmap presets. Envelopes and arches can not be applied to any selected text or object.

NEW Art Selection Features: This is an entirely new category of features designed to automate the process of selecting objects for editing. Automated features will select by outline color, fill color, outline width. You can also select all rectangles, all ellipses, all text or all bitmaps. Using the Invert Selection feature, objects that are deselected will be selected and objects that are selected will be deselected.

NEW SD X3 Organizer: Completely integrated job and order management system, includes order processing, quotes, customer database, supplier database, employee database, job tracking and calendar.

NEW Halftone Wizard: Apply a halftone dot type, frequency and angle to a group of objects or selected objects with spot colors. Dot size can be set globally for a document.

NEW AND IMPROVED Product Blanks: Blanks can be colored with editable textures including wood grain, fabrics, diamonad plate etc... PDF files can now be generated directly from the Product Blanks feature.

IMPROVED Create Flash Base: Creates color separations with an underbase and white highlights on both vector and bitmap images for screen printing or direct to garment printing on dark garments.

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