Capturing parts of Corel Drawings

[jduer]

Is it possible to capture (copy) a segment of a drawing and keep that part in Draw for further manipulation?

I have been working on creating quilt patterns for my wife and cannot find a way to do this yet. See

http://www.judysquiltinginstructions.com/catalog/pub/b166.bmp

for an example of part of a 24" Double Wedding Ring pattern that Draw (version 7.467) created. I have ordered release 11 if that is helpful.

I need to be able to capture the irregular figures A, B and C as Draw figures so I can use Contour to add a 1/4" seam allowance to all sides of the figure.

I know how to read the image into PhotoPaint and crop the image and using the eraser to get rid of the unwanted lines, but I cannot figure out a way to get the resulting image back into Draw as an image that can be manipulated.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Joe Duerstock

 

[rh14k]

Hi jduer,

It's seems that the copy you have been able to use in Photo Paint was a bitmap file, which would explain why you were not able to manipulate it in Corel Draw. Even after moving it from Photo Paint to Draw, it was still a bitmap file. If the file/s you were trying to use were in a vector format (line drawings) you could import them into draw and they could be manipulated. Most of the time, when an image is copied from the web it is in a bitmap format. A bitmap is like permanantly adhering some objects together with super glue and a vector file is like taking some objects and placing them in a box.

If you have to have this pattern, your probably going to have to recreate it in Draw.



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[jduer]

When I wrote this request, I have very little hope that there was a way to do this but I thought that it was worth a try.

I do thank you for confirming that there is no way to do this.

Joe