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See How They Autorun Windows has a feature that executes a program called Autorun every time a new CD is inserted. (To be technically precise, a file called Autorun.inf is read from the root directory of the CD, and an executable file is designated there—in this case, intro.exe, the program responsible for the welcome screen in Figure A.1.) Autorun was quite controversial among beta testers, many of whom wanted Corel to remove this “convenience” from their install CD. These detractors made a good argument that users who had already installed DRAW would grow tired of dealing with Autorun when all they wanted to do was install a font, check a Readme file, or perform some other housekeeping task. Corel decided to keep Autorun in place, however. If you do want to bypass the opening screen, you can instruct Windows to ignore Autorun. To do this temporarily, hold down the Shift key when you insert the CD. You can also get rid of the feature permanently in the Control Panel’s Device Manager (it’s called Auto Insert Notification), but Autorun can be nice to have for playing audio CDs. |
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Setup
The Setup program is configured as a Wizard that prompts you through installation options one step at a time. The welcome screen gives you another opportunity to examine the release notes. Next up is the standard license agreement. The first entry screen you encounter asks for your name and company name, if applicable. Following this is a screen that asks you to fill in your serial number. Installation can proceed without filling this in, but doing so validates your license and makes the number available from within the online Help, should you ever need to confirm your license with Corel technical support.
Once you’ve entered and confirmed the user information, the screen shown in Figure A.2 presents three installation options: Typical, Compact, and Custom. Initially, Custom and Typical require virtually the same amount of disk space. This is because a Custom install begins with the components included in a Typical install. From there, you have the option to select more or fewer components for installation.
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A.2 DRAW 9 offers three choices for installation.
A Typical installation with no extras selected requires 182MB.
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Typical Installation
This installation is the quickest and easiest way to get CorelDRAW installed and running, with the most commonly used features. We recommend doing a Custom installation, for no other reason than knowing exactly what options are available to you. Of course, you can return and add components later. In fact, Corel has specifically provided an option to add components once an install is complete, something lacking in prior versions.
A Typical installation of CorelDRAW installs the following components:
- • DRAW
- • PHOTO-PAINT
- • Graphic utilities: Corel CAPTURE, Corel TEXTURE, and CorelTRACE
- • Help files
- • Tutorials
- • Sample files
- • Scripts
- • Print Duplexing Wizard
- • Commercial label formats
- • A selection of filters and TrueType fonts
- • PHOTO-PAINT
If you opt for the Typical install, the only choices you’ll make are whether to add more languages for use by Corel writing tools, and whether to change the default language from English to something else.
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The next screen prompts you to select locations on your system for the application and shared files. In an effort to conform to Windows standards, these default to subdirectories of the C:\Program Files folder, but you can set any destination you wish, including a networked drive. This screen also shows how much space is available on each drive and how much space is required based on your choices, as shown in Figure A.3. You’ll get a warning message if there is not enough space for your selections on any of the drives chosen.
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A.3 You select the destination for your installation.
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Compact Installation
The Compact installation option provides a bare-bones installation, consuming “only” about 97MB.
A Compact installation installs only the following items:
- • CorelDRAW
- • DRAW Help files
- • Default filters
- • DRAW Help files
The other choices are virtually identical to a Typical install.
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| NOTE Unlike version 8, neither the Compact nor Typical install allows you to specify which fonts to install or where they are installed. Each installs a minimum set of fonts consisting of AvantGarde and Common Bullets. If you are not already using a font management tool, we recommend you perform a Custom install and add Font Navigator 3.0 to your component list. You can do this during initial installation or at a later date. |
Custom Installation
Custom installation begins with the components selected that comprise a Typical install. With Custom installation, you can pick and choose individually from among the following available applications and options:
- • CorelDRAW
- • PHOTO-PAINT
- • Graphics utilities
- • Productivity tools
- • Filters
- • Fonts
- • PHOTO-PAINT
Each one of these choices can be expanded to allow you to pick and choose individual subcomponents. Custom installation adds a series of cascading folders to the Start menu, with shortcuts for each application that you choose.
Applications
DRAW and PHOTO-PAINT allow you to install or omit Help files and tutorials. You can also choose vector file types to associate with DRAW (see Figure A.4) and bitmap file types to associate with PHOTO-PAINT. Initially, only CDR and CPT files are associated with DRAW and PHOTO-PAINT, respectively, which is a change from prior versions. There are optional Outlines & Fills, Scripts, and Preset conversions for DRAW that are not part of a Typical install.
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A.4 These vector file types can be associated
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Graphics Utilities
The graphics utilities no longer include CorelMEDIA FOLDERS INDEXER. Instead, Corel has bundled the third-party utility, Canto Cumulus Desktop 4 LE. Cumulus is backward-compatible with MEDIA FOLDERs, but doesn’t retain previously assigned notes and keywords. (As noted earlier, Canto Cumulus must be installed separately from the Intro screen.)
CorelTRACE no longer does optical character recognition, but its bitmap tracing is greatly improved. Corel TEXTURE, Corel CAPTURE, CDR/CMX thumbnail displays, and plug-in filters are still included, and have been updated for the new release. DRAW and PHOTO-PAINT 9 are fully compatible with PhotoShop plug-ins, and several manufacturers have supplied filters, which are included with the suite.
Productivity Tools
CorelDRAW 9’s productivity tools include a Script Editor, Barcode Wizard, automated label creation in three different national standards, and a Duplexing Wizard.
One of the more compelling reasons to use Custom install is to install Font Navigator 3.0 from Bitstream. With this utility, you can install and organize your TrueType and Type 1 fonts. Draw will even automatically install fonts required by a CDR file, as long as they have been cataloged and are available on disk somewhere on your system.
CorelDRAW now fully supports Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications and includes version 6 as part of a Custom install. This provides a much more robust programming environment than does Corel’s Scripting language, and also allows for the development of custom programs that can work between applications. By default, when you select this option, you will also install Internet Explorer, version 5. If you choose this item, your system will only do a partial install, restart, then complete the actual CorelDRAW installation.
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If you do not care about Digital Signatures, do not want to install Internet Explorer 5, but still want to install Visual Basic, you must expand the tree and select only the second item, as shown in Figure A.5.
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A.5 Choosing to install Digital Signatures also
automatically installs Internet Explorer 5, unless you specifically say
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Filters
Default installation includes selected filters in five categories: Bitmap, Vector, Animation, Text, and Internet, taking up a total of 17MB. If you choose to install all filters, the total will go up to 40MB.
Writing Tools
Once you have chosen all the options you want, click Next to reach the Writing Tools screen. Here you can choose what the default language should be, and any additional languages you wish to work in. This is described earlier in “Typical Installation.”
Color Profiles
The next screen allows you to choose from color profiles Corel provides for a variety of common printers, monitors, and scanners. These are limited in number, and Corel no longer provides a utility to tune them. However, Corel will be providing more profiles on its Web site, and there are easy links within the program to get to the appropriate page and download the profiles you desire.
Digital Cameras
The next screen allows you to pick from a list of common digital cameras, so that you can transfer pictures directly into DRAW or PHOTO-PAINT from the camera.
Fonts
To Corel’s install program, “fonts” means TrueType fonts. However, Corel also supplies all of its typefaces in Type 1 format. If you prefer to use Type 1 fonts, you’ll need to take care of it by yourself. First, perform a Custom install and deselect all fonts. Then install the ones you want later with Font Navigator, Adobe Type Manager, or another font manager.
If you don’t make any changes, you’ll get a default group of 55 TrueType fonts. These can be individually deselected, and other fonts can be added, either individually or by groups. Figure A.6 shows some of the font groupings available. We like to go to that screen for comic relief—some of the names for font categories are quite amusing. If you choose to pick individually, you will be presented with a complete list of all TrueType fonts in alphabetical order.
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A.6 Corel has some interesting ideas about how
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Completing the Installation
Following the fonts screen, you can choose the destination just as in a Typical install. If you have chosen to install fonts, an additional field lets you to choose the destination for those as well (see Figure A.7). This field will not appear if you don’t install additional fonts.
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A.7 When doing a Custom install, you can choose
a destination for fonts.
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Moving forward to the next screen, you are given the choice of creating program shortcuts in an existing shortcut folder or by default in a new one called CorelDRAW 9. If you go with the default choice, you can always copy or move the shortcuts later. Click Next, and you are finally at the Install screen. Here you can review the selected components and destinations one last time, or take the plunge and click Install.
Setup displays the progress of the installation with the familiar Windows-style “Percentage Complete” status bar. Various bitmap images appear during the installation, highlighting CorelDRAW’s features. Now is probably a good time to go eat lunch or take the dog for a walk. The length of time for the install varies depending on your hardware and the options chosen—we’ve seen it as short as three minutes and as long as an hour. But hey, aren’t you glad you’re not installing from diskettes?
At the end of the install, you’re offered the opportunity to register online. If you say yes, the Registration Wizard springs into action, presenting you with several screens to fill in and then collecting system information. You’ll have an opportunity to see what information was collected and to decide whether or not you wish it transmitted with your registration. If you choose not to register, the application will automatically remind you again in two weeks. Of course, there is always the old-fashioned method of simply filling out and sending the registration card.
Adding Components
CorelDRAW 9 has finally given us an option to go back and install additional components after our initial install, without having to wade through all the various screens of a Custom install. If you run Setup, after an install, you are presented with a dialog that has, as one of three choices, the option to Add New Components. If you select this, the tree structure on the following screen will only display those components that have not yet been installed. Just pick the ones you want to add, and move on to the next screen. From that point on, the install screens will look just like a Custom install, except that your destinations will already be set from your prior install. Depending on which components you add, the resulting process should take far less time than a Typical install.
Uninstall
With the increasing size and complexity of today’s programs, the numerous files that are installed in a variety of locations (including the Windows directory and System subdirectory), and the entries added to the Registry by the installation program, manual removal of software is too complex for mere mortals. That’s why most Windows programs include an Uninstall utility that is installed during setup.
CorelDRAW’s Uninstall can be invoked from the Start Menu folder containing the Corel applications (you’ll find it under Setup and Notes), or the Add/Remove Programs command in the Control Panel. The Uninstall Wizard allows you to select from a list of Corel applications you have installed. You can choose just one or several applications to uninstall, and you can choose to uninstall everything or choose individual components, as shown in Figure A.8.
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A.8 All installed components are available for
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