Operation Manual

Working with pages and layout tools | 487
Working with pages and layout tools
Corel DESIGNER lets you specify the size, orientation, unit of scale, and background of the drawing page. You can customize and display
page grids and guidelines to help you organize objects and place them exactly where you want. Rulers can help you position grids,
guidelines, and objects along a scale that uses units of your choice. Also, you can add and delete pages.
Page layout settings and tools are fully customizable and can be used as defaults for other drawings.
This section contains the following topics:
• “Specifying the page layout” (page 487)
• “Choosing a page background” (page 490)
• “Adding, duplicating, renaming, and deleting pages” (page 491)
• “Inserting page numbers” (page 493)
• “Using the rulers” (page 495)
• “Calibrating the rulers” (page 496)
• “Setting up the document grid” (page 496)
• “Setting up the baseline grid” (page 497)
• “Setting up guidelines” (page 498)
• “Modifying guidelines” (page 500)
• “Setting the drawing scale” (page 501)
Specifying the page layout
You can begin working on a drawing by specifying settings for the size, orientation, and layout style of the page. The options you choose
when specifying the page layout can be used as a default for all new drawings you create. You can also adjust the page size and orientation
settings to match the standard paper settings for printing.
Page size
There are two options for specifying a page size: choosing a preset page size and creating your own. You can choose from many preset page
sizes, ranging from legal-size paper and envelopes to posters and webpages. If a preset page size does not meet your needs, you can create
a custom page size by specifying a drawing’s dimensions.
You can save custom page sizes as presets for later use, and you can delete any custom preset page sizes that you no longer need.