Dragging lines and curves
You can change the shape of lines and curves by dragging with the drag tool, you no longer are limited to just the handles and/or nodes.
There are two available settings on how the handles of a curve should react when the curve is dragged. You can reach these settings by clicking the settings button in the drag toolbar (last button on the right).
Add node with double clicking
You can now add a node by just double clicking on a line or curve with the drag tool.
Drag tool, toolbar icons
Add nodes
If you selected this icon without having a node selection, you can now add nodes by clicking once on a curve or line. You leave this mode by clicking once on an empty space on your worksheet.
Delete nodes
If you selected this icon without having a node selection, you can now delete nodes by clicking on them. You leave this mode by clicking once on an empty space on your worksheet.
Delete vector
If you selected this icon without having a node selection, you can delete whole line and curve sections with just one click. If you click on a node, the node and the line/curves at the start of the node will also be deleted.
Break and move
If you click on a node with this tool, it will automatically open the node. As long as the mouse button stays pressed, the node can be moved. If you drop the node on another open node, both shapes will be connected.
Replace by curve
This option will replace a selection of curves and/or lines with an optimized curve with a minimum of nodes. Ideal for editing vectorized artwork.
Scale nodes
You can now scale a selection of nodes with the support of the same restricting keys (SHIFT and CTRL) as with scaling of objects. You leave this mode by clicking once on an empty space on your worksheet.
Rotate nodes
You can now rotate a selection of nodes with the support of the same constriction keys (SHIFT and CTRL) and options (center of rotation) as with rotating of objects. You leave this mode by clicking once on an empty space on your worksheet.
Interface
Some users didn't like the new way the toolbox (the toolbar on the left with e.g. the drag tool) react after selecting a tool form a fly-out (the selected tool stays visible). For these user there is a new setting which brings back the EasySIGN version 4 toolbox. Select "File, Settings..." and then the tab : "General". Here you will find the option "Style toolbox as version 4", EasySIGN needs a restart after setting this option.
You see, we do listen.
Compatibility
Compatibility for CorelDraw™ X3 and Corel PhotoPAINT™ X3 (version 13) has been added. The advanced Compatibility for CorelDraw™ X3 is still in production and will follow in a future Service Pack.
If you select this item called "filter", the following dialog will appear:
First of all, you can enable the filter by checking the 'specific colors' box, the colors will then become active. Now, you will see three sliders for every color, called L, c, and h.
The L slider is for the 'lightness' of a color. If all red colors are too dark, you can shift them up a bit. The next one, 'c' stands for color, or saturation. The last one (and the most useful) is 'h' or 'hue'. This will shift a specific color, for example making red a bit more magenta, or yellow a bit more red.
The one exception is gray: this color can be shifted in its 'a' and 'b' axis, which simply means that you can add green or red, and you can add yellow or blue.
Be aware that if you change anything here, all future prints for the profile will change, so be careful with it! Think of those repeat jobs you might get, you wouldn't want to change any of those. When in doubt, you can always install a profile twice, and experiment on the second one.
Examples:
Lets say you want your grays to be a bit more 'warm' than normal. To do this, shift the 'b' slider to +10, and add some 'a', for example +2. Watch the colors change, they provide a quite accurate preview of what is going to happen.
Yellow is also a sensitive color. If you want your yellows to be more 'warm', you can shift the 'h' of yellow to for example +5, making it a bit more red/magenta. Again, the color patch will show you what happens.
We hope that you can put these extra options to good use. The screen can provide you with a good preview, but you should of course always test any changes on the particular job itself. A few testprints should produce exactly the results you like...
Another exciting new feauture in the current service pack is separations. You can now print any job as separated color channels. This gives you the opportunity to create films for screen printing on any normal (high-resolution) inkjet printer. With the existing cropmark functionality, the separate films can be aligned and used for creating screen printing masters. All you need is a good high-resolution inkjet printer, capable of printing on clear film.
In the options, you can choose to override the normal raster settings, and set up any raster angle, frequency and shape. You can choose which channels to print, and whether you want the searations to appear in black or in their native colors. When printing in black, the RIP uses K ink only of course. The raster accuracy is unmatched, avoiding any tendency to create moiré. Again this feature is free for existing users of version 5.