
CorelDRAW® Home & Student Suite X8 offers fully-integrated applications and complementary plugins that cover everything
from vector illustration and page layout, to photo editing, bitmap-to-vector tracing, and web graphics.
CorelDRAW Home & Student X8 Workspace
The Welcome screen
The Welcome screen is a centralized location from which you
can access learning resources, product information, and
alternative application workspaces as well as acquire
applications, plug-ins, and extensions.
You can also find out about new features, receive the latest
product updates, and view designs created by CorelDRAW
users from around the world.
Workspace selection
To choose a workspace, click Window Workspace, or
choose one of the available workspaces from the
Welcome screen.
To add tools or controls to the active workspace, click the
Quick customize button .
Title bar: Displays the title
of the open document.
Rulers: Calibrated lines with markers used to
determine the size and position of objects in a
drawing.
Standard toolbar: A detachable bar that contains shortcuts to
menu and other commands, such as opening, saving and
printing.
Menu bar: The area
containing pull-down
options and commands.
Property bar: A
detachable bar with
commands that relate
to the active tool or
object.
Toolbox: Contains tools for
creating and modifying
objects in the drawing.
Docker: A window
containing available
commands and
settings relevant to a
specific tool or task.
Drawing window: The
area bordered by the scroll
bars and application
controls. It includes the
drawing page and the
surrounding area.
Color palette: A
dockable bar that
contains color
swatches.
Drawing page: The
rectangular area inside the
drawing window. It is the
printable area of your work
area.
Navigator: A button
that opens a smaller
display to help you
move around a
drawing.
Document palette: A
dockable bar that contains
color swatches for the
current document.
Document navigator: An area that contains
controls for moving between pages and adding
pages.
Status bar: Contains information about object properties such
as type, size, color, fill, and resolution. The status bar also shows
the current mouse position.