On Imposition Technology in CorelDRAW

When it comes to the scope of prepress production work, one has to mention the typesetting work of books or magazines. Because of the standard nature of books and magazines and industry norms, this method has certain skills and execution. At present, most printing factories are still in manual imposition for book and magazine printing and imposition, but with the gradual promotion of electronic digital typesetting technology, computer typesetting will certainly replace the manual imposition. For the selection of computer typesetting software, most of the domestic production staff currently use PageMaker, Peking University Founder and some graphics such as CorelDRAW, Illustrator, FreeHand and other software. Some foreign-funded enterprises are teaching the introduction of more advanced and scientific Professional typesetting software, such as QuarkXPress. Here I have removed PageMaker, QuarkXPress and other typesetting software, and chose CorelDRAW, a large-scale professional software combining the most widely used graphic images and typesetting in China, to give some simple typesetting introduction.

CorelDRAW is a professional drawing software and an extremely powerful typesetting software. There are almost no books or publications that can be seen in the market. The vast majority of graphic designers and pre-press production staff in China all have the necessary understanding and mastery of them. Together with another image processing software Photoshop, they constitute an indispensable tool for graphic designers to take up their jobs.

1. Arrangement of layout

The default page layout of CorelDRAW's working environment is an internationally used A4 office paper. This paper is for the office and not for book magazines. Therefore, we are using CorelDRAW for book layout. At this time, we must make some settings for this layout, of course, we can completely ignore the existence of this paper, and use another better method to deal with the working environment settings we want to make, that is, use some rectangular frames to Visually represent the actual paper requirements we want.

The method described in this article is not carried out according to the typesetting method required by the CorelDRAW software itself, but I have summarized it based on my personal experience in pre-press work, and I hope to be able to do some pre-press work. The production staff of the company carried out a brick-and-mortar introduction, opening up another way of typesetting for readers and friends. Therefore, if you have readers who are skeptical about the layout of this article, there is no need to make some unnecessary suspicions. Instead, you can find out more suitable for you according to the methods introduced in this article, combined with your own practical experience in actual work. The typesetting method, of course, the typesetting method introduced in this article is believed to be suitable for some beginners who are just engaged in pre-press work.

For reader friends who are preparing to use CorelDRAW for book and magazine layout with reference to this article, this article does not have any technical premises. It only requires reader friends to call up the CorelDRAW program from the Windows Start → Program menu.

After CorelDRAW is opened, a newly created desktop window similar to office software such as Word, as shown in Figure 1, differs only in some menu items and tools.

Select the text tool of the toolbox, click the mouse anywhere in the working window, and then drag in a certain direction, a rectangular frame will be drawn in the window, and the frame can be changed in the lower right corner or directly below the frame The size of the mark, hold down here with the mouse and drag in a certain direction to change the horizontal or vertical size of this frame, here we set this frame to 170mm x 257mm size (assuming the size of the finished product is A4 paper size and The distance between the four sides is 2cm), as shown in Figure 2. Click the left mouse button in this box to enter text.

In a normal book or magazine, it is impossible to have only simple symbols such as text. We will also insert some objects such as pictures according to the needs of different article content or layout. In CorelDRAW, you can not only insert foreign pictures processed by other software, but also use its own powerful drawing functions to create some pictures to insert. No matter what kind of pictures are introduced, we have to embed them in the text.

The work of inserting a picture into text is very simple. Just select the picture to be inserted and set it in "Paragraph Text Wrapping" on the formatting toolbar. In this tool, CorelDRAW provides us with a rich text wrapping function, which can wrap the picture either left or right, or up and down or four sides, etc., as shown in Figure 3.

When inserting pictures into the text, CorelDRAW's good prepress automation function has preset preset specifications for the embedding of pictures and text. Of course, we can also carry out some self-control according to our own preferences or layout requirements. Defined settings to make the embedding of pictures and text more beautiful or reasonable. Figure 4 shows the effect after inserting the picture into the text.

If the text and picture content of the book or magazine to be edited are all input, we need to put the arranged content into the paper to print or make a large-scale printing plate on the printing machine. This step is also very simple. We just need to select all the content that contains the arranged objects, such as pictures, and then use the alignment tool to align the content with the center of the paper, or to any place on the paper. Figure 5 shows the effect of aligning the text to the center of the paper. This method is suitable for the default page format of the software to arrange multi-page continuous version.

The above mentioned typesetting according to CorelDRAW default means that only one page of the finished page number is placed on one page. If you want to continue to arrange the content of the next page in the same file, you must add a new page number to place it.

In addition to aligning the arranged graphics and text with CorelDRAW's default paper center as mentioned above, you can also make a virtual page by drawing a rectangular frame that matches the actual paper size, so that you can place it on a page For more page content, such as press sheets, you can put 16 or 32 page numbers on a page without adding another page number.

In page layout, a lot of objects such as headers and footers are used. In general layout software, there are good items that automatically arrange headers and footers, but there is no such feature in CorelDRAW. However, we can manually place it through the powerful graphics and layout of this software. At this point, CorelDRAW is slightly inferior to PageMaker, QuarkXPress and other software, but this is not to say that CorelDRAW can not do this, on the contrary, sometimes it may have a more beautiful effect than doing it.

If you want to arrange the header and footer items on the page, you can first make the header and footer in the blank space next to it, and then arrange the header and footer to any desired by copy, paste, arrange and align functions In one position. Figure 8 shows the page rendering with header and footer added.

2. Precautions when typesetting

Other layout settings in book typesetting are basically similar to office software such as Word, Kingsoft Office, etc., such as paragraph, word and line spacing, font size change, cut and copy movement, alignment, and the first word sink , Tabs, tables (in CorelDRAW, any complicated form of report can be made, but it cannot be automatically calculated, and charts cannot be automatically generated like professional tabulation software such as Excel). All these operations can basically be achieved by calling the corresponding function items in the "Text" menu in the menu bar.

After the graphic layout is completed, if it is placed according to the default page format of CorelDRAW, page layout, gutter and other layout items can be automatically generated in the "print" item, and the page sequence can be changed at will; if it is in the same On the page number side, a virtual page method (that is, drawing a large rectangular frame such as paper to replace CorelDRAW's default actual paper) is used to lay out the graphic content. Some page number and other items need to be manually adjusted. Some people may think that manual adjustment is not suitable for multi-page book layout. In fact, this is an unnecessary consideration: First, ordinary printing companies rarely receive thick books to print, and professional printing plants that mainly print books The typesetting software used is basically Peking University Founder and other software. Compared with widely distributed magazines or similar publicity albums, the page numbers are mostly between one and two hundred pages; second, we can use CorelDRAW's powerful copy, Paste function to achieve; because the copy and paste function of CorelDRAW is seldom compared with software, although this "stupid" method is indeed too complicated for hundreds of pages of books, but it also brought us A more free form of page number arrangement. With this method, we can easily arrange the page number to any place we want without worrying about the wrong position.

Most people who are used to typesetting software such as PageMaker, Peking University Founder, QuarkXPress and others think that using CorelDRAW to typeset is too slow. In fact, this is simply a problem of not arranging the number of pages in a file. Compared with the above software, CorelDRAW is a bit inconvenient for the file operation speed of more than 50 or 60 pages, but in fact tens or even hundreds of pages are arranged in a file at the same time. It is very troublesome, they still have to take these pages out and rearrange them in order to make a printed version. For printed matter with too many page numbers, we do not need to arrange all the page files in one file. The number of pages in the file can be adjusted according to the actual situation at the time of printing. For example, the maximum printing layout of the printing press can only print 16 pages. Page number, then we can arrange 16 page files into one file, which not only speeds up the speed of the file operation, but also facilitates the layout of the large version to make a plate, so that a book with three hundred pages only needs to be done Twenty files are enough. At first glance, it seems that there are too many files, which is not as convenient as a file such as PageMaker. However, for a platemaker, a file is just the number of pages in a standard printed version, and many platemakers I also like to use CorelDRAW to make a large version. If this grammar is adopted, a file is a version, which is very convenient to operate.

There are many typists who believe that CorelDRAW does not have the convenience of PageMaker when arranging graphics. This is also the consequence of not understanding CorelDRAW. The graphics in CorelDRAW is only as good as CorelDRAW. We can use such as PageMaker Arrange the patterns in such a link form (more clear and eye-catching than in PageMaker, if you want to achieve such a clear effect with PageMaker, the speed advantage of PageMaker will be gone), and you can import all the patterns into the file . The choice of whether to use links when importing patterns can be selected in the dialog box when importing patterns.

In professional typesetting software such as PageMaker and QuarkXPress, there is a "stapling" function that combines several files into one file. This is a pity in CorelDRAW, which does not bring convenience to our typesetting work. At the same time, it is difficult for us to arrange the catalogue of the book-we must use manual form to make the catalogue.

The final layout document is to take out the film and make it into a printed version. In the process, many people who are new to the typesetting work ignore a serious problem-font compatibility. In addition to some large-scale printing factories, most printing factories can complete the work of typesetting and so on, but rarely complete the output work by themselves. Instead, they are outsourced to some output companies specializing in output work to produce film films or even produce printed plates. . At this time, you will encounter the situation where the file is transferred from the company to the export company, and you have to consider the problem of font compatibility. If it is just a one or two page file, we can convert all the text into curves, but this method is not suitable for multi-page number files; another method is to export all files to EPS format files, but this Although this method is good, it may sometimes cause some other problems, and it also increases the physical storage of the file; the best way is to store the default Cdr of CorelDRAW in a storage body (such as a CD or MO) The files are stored in the common Eps files in the industry, and the fonts used in the files are also copied to the storage body, so that after the files are transferred, there is no need to worry about unnecessary troubles due to font compatibility.

At present, some foreign-funded and some large-scale printing companies in the mainland have begun to produce production processes such as remote revision, reading, proofing and printing, as well as the circulation of documents on the Internet. This requires our production staff to not only do typesetting, imposition, output and other work, but also learn to circulate files on the Internet-html files or PDF files. Html file is a page file used on the network. The physical storage capacity of the file is required to be as small as possible to facilitate browsing and circulation on the network. These matters to be noted can be selected in the Output to Interner item in the "File" menu. In addition to making Html files for network circulation, sometimes we also need to convert the file into another standard file that can be circulated on any operating platform and in any language-a PDF file. This file can be irrespective of the operating system or the language installed in the system, and can be circulated according to the style we have arranged on the local computer. The precautions for outputting such a file can be set and selected in the function item for issuing PDF files in the "File" menu.

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