What are they for? and how to use, collect, and edit symbols in Corel Draw

Document editing jobs are very important to us, that's why we need tools that give us the convenience of working freely. But without neglecting professionalism and good quality.

Currently in the market for programs to computer we find an infinite number of applications that promise us good quality when it comes to doing our documentary work. In addition to a simple and easy to understand interface.

But in reality, many times we can be disappointed, since many of these programs do not meet our needs. Therefore, we must be very careful in choosing which programs to download and use.




One of the programs that has performed its functions best, dedicated to meeting the needs of its users, is Corel DRAW and we can download and install it easily.

What are they for? and how to use, collect, and edit symbols in Corel Draw

How to use, collect and edit symbols in Corel DRAW?

Basically this program is a graphic design application. It is primarily designed for the design and layout of web publishing pages, as well as for printing. Since its launch it has positioned itself as one of the best in its area, as it allows users excellent editing options such as adding outlines to objects, correcting a photo's blurry appearance, inserting custom effects on text and background, etc. .

It is very important to know the functions that this fantastic program offers us, one of the most surprising is the creation of symbols. In this article we will explain what they are for, how to use and create them.

We can create symbols based on the pictures which can be edited separately and then merged into a single object. We can also save them in a gallery to be able to use them in future works.




With a symbol created and saved in the gallery, we can create multiple copies of the same symbol and modify them if we wish. When you edit a symbol, all symbols that have been copied from it will change in the same way.

These symbols they can be used in advertising work, as we can create them with the images we want and use them in the form of vignettes or something like that. In the same work we can insert many symbols without affecting the weight of the file.

How to create symbols in Corel DRAW?

What are they for? and how to use, collect, and edit symbols in Corel Draw

To create a symbol, we must first know what we're going to do it for, they can be in the form of icons of images, text or anything else. We can use multiple images to create a single symbol.

To create it, first we draw the object on the sheet, we can create effects for these objects if we want; once we have created our object we will select it. Now let's right click on it and select the last option Symbol, Then New symbol.

After writing the name of our symbol and clicking accepts, this action is the same for any symbol we want to create. In this way we have successfully created a symbol.

How to create a stencil in Corel DRAW?

To create a gallery we must first create different symbols. Now let's select the option Subject located at the top of the screen. So the option Symbol, a tab will appear in which we will select the last Symbol Manager option.



A window will open on the right of the screen where it shows us all the symbols we have created at the bottom. Above a preview of the characteristics of the symbols.


In the center of the window Symbol Manager we find the galleries we have created. Since we have created some symbols previously, we will find ourselves in an untitled gallery, there we can see all the symbol galleries that have been created.


How to edit symbols in Corel DRAW?

It is important to point out that only the symbols we have created can be edited, there are some symbols that usually come by default that cannot be changed. Now to edit one of our symbols.


First we select it in the symbol manager, already being selected we go to the bottom of our tab and select Edit symbol. In the center of our sheet we will see the symbol.

Here we select it and we can start editing it, for example change the color or shape, when we finish editing we select the option Finish editing the object.

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