DRAW 12/X3 UI adjustment effects customization fix

CorelDRAW 12/X3 options' customization doesn't provide some of color adjustment effects for shortcut assignment, there are no labels for them, nowhere, even in 'All commands' section, e.g.Contrast Enhancements (aka Levels), etc. - 12 effects from Adjust menu....

I wouldn't be me if I didn't succeed in tweaking it :-) so it's just one-click away

200k autopatcher CDRAdjustmentEffectsCustomizationEnabler.exe

Now becomes true:

wx_PatchDraw [updated]

• New: patch.RenderResolution, on-the-fly change of Render Effects Resolution, dpi
  New: patch.AutocenterPowerClipToggle, on-the-fly toggling of "Center new powerclips contents" option
  New: patch.NavigatorWindowSize - for X3 & X4, resizes document navigator (50-500, DRAW's default is 150), standard hotkey is "N"
  Download test version of the macro
  
  
  
• patch.SlowZoomToggle - toggle mousewheel zoom speed (fast, as in X3 default, or slow, as in Draw11). Shift-scrolling speed is also toggled.
• patch.ZoomLevelLimitToggle - toggle "Maximum (minimum) zoom level achieved reached" messages.
• patch.NodeGlyph2xToggle - toggle double size for nonselected node glyphs in node edit mode. Nodes thus are easier to be seen / work with.
• patch.NodeGlyphColoredToggle - toggle node color coding for different types of nodes.
• patch.SnapRadiusSet - set userspecified value of gravity of snapping (1..35, default is 10). High value (35) makes it a lot easier to work with guidelines and snap-to-objects
• patch.SnapRadiusStd10, SnapRadiusMax35 - 1-click macros to quickly set gravity of snapping to 10 and 35 respectively
• patch.CLOLreadToggle - disable reading of ColorStyles from CDR files to speed-up opening
• patch.CLOLwriteToggle - disable saving of ColorStyles to CDR files to optimize file size to speed-up saving
• patch.CrossHairToggle - fullscreen cross hair mouse pointer
• patch.DispImageAntiAliasToggle - antialiasing of bitmaps in enhanced view mode
• patch.Setup - configure automatic applying of the settings at startup time. Naturally don't forget to clear the "DelayLoadVBA" checkbox in Tools-Options-VBA - thus actually allowing VBA macros to run at startup.
• works with DrawX3sp2 (13.0.0.739)

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RecentFiles Nov11 - important fix

Nov 11:

• Important fix: skip '..' parent folder on (multiple) file delete.
  Today I've just deleted 1.5GB of my very valuable data folder, thanx to file restoring software I immediately got it back :-)
• SaveAs invoke mode if form was minimized - fixed: wrong control got focus, now it's file name input field

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wx_TOOLS updates: bitmaps, screenscroll, PClipPick

See also: wx_Tools: previous blog post with package description

Fixed: PClipPick bug with screen redraw when no object under mouse

Added:

• wx.ZoomOutBack - to replace F3 hotkey, restores old pre-X3 behaviour
  
• wx.OutlineEqualsFill - makes outline color equal to fill. Useful for trace results in X3 to eliminate faint ghostly 'outline'
  
• wx.BitmapsDownsample - resamples bitmaps if its dpi is larger than specified by 20%. Asks dpi # and processes selected / whole doc, including powerclips. Shows per page statistics
  
• wx.BitmapsSetDPI - changes dpi value for bitmaps without resampling. Asks dpi # and processes selected / whole doc, including powerclips. Shows per page statistics.
  
• wx.BitmapsToPowerclips - puts bitmaps into powerclips. Asks bleed # and processes selected / whole doc. Shows per page statistics.
  
• wx.ScrollScreenDown, ...Up ...Left ...Right ...DownRight ...UpRight ...DownLeft ...UpLeft - Scroll by 80% of screen. Assign e.g. to Ctrl-Alt-Numpad keys (1 to 9)

VectorChannelMixer for CMYK [updated]

Updated to not show multiple selection marks while processing. Download

wx_PatchDraw :: NodeGlyphColoredToggle added

Added new macro to the wx_PatchDraw package. patch.NodeGlyphColoredToggle - toggle node color coding for different types of nodes. Download

X3 BIG customize dialog (EN) [updated2]

See updated post: Big options dialogs patch 1.1

wx_TOOLS macro package

The package of versatile handy tools I use currently to slipstream my workflow.

• wx.PClipPick - pick a powerclipped shape(s) without entering powerclip editing mode. Works with keyboard assignment only: for example "W" and "Shift-W" (to add to selection). Repeat the macro to pick nested shapes.
  
• wx.InvertSelection - invert shapes selection
  
• wx.ZoomOutBack - to replace F3 hotkey, restores old pre-X3 behaviour
  
• wx.CreateFountain - to quickcreate complex fountain fills - select a few uniformly filled shapes, invoke the macro, pick the target shape which will be painted with a fountain fill consisting of the selected colors.
  Updated to preserve angle and space between source swatches
  
• wx.selectComplexCurves - to find shapes with number of nodes greater than specified
  
• wx.selectSameFillColor, wx.selectSameFillAndOutline, wx.selectSameOutline, wx.selectSameDialog - selects ungroupped shapes with same fill/outline colors. Enable keyboard ScrollLock led to specify sensitivity (negative values allow selection inside groups)
  
• wx.transparentEdge - create feathered edges for simple shapes (quirky)
  
• wx.PasteAtMouse - paste the clipboard at mouse position
  
• wx.ForEach - repeat last standard transform (repeatable usually with Ctrl-R) for the selection of multiple shapes individually for each (each repetition creates its 'undo' record)
  
• wx.OutlinesToQ_KillEmpty - converts outlines to curves and deletes original shapes if it has no fill
  
• wx.sizePagetoFIT - resizes page to fit objects + user specified gap
  
• wx.selectSmallObjects - select objects smaller than user specified threshold
  
• wx.outlineBehind - enable outline behind. Shift-click to disable
  
• wx.OutlineIncrease & OutlineDecrease - change selected shapes' outlines width. Each width is changed individually which allows changing of different widths in one selection. I have it on Ctrl-Alt-Up & Down
  
• wx.OutlineEqualsFill - makes outline color equal to fill. Useful for trace results in X3 to eliminate faint ghostly 'outline'
  
• wx.GuideHorizontal, GuideVertical - create guide at mouse cursor. Assign to a hotkey
  
• wx.BlendSplit - splits blend at position under mouse cursor. Invoke via hotkey only
  
• wx.pageNamesAsNumbers - remove page names ("Page #") so that only numbers remain.
  
• wx.dupOnNextPage - quick copying of selection to the next page (no clipboard usage). Layers currently are merged.
  
• wx.TextToCurves - text to curves (also powerclipped) throughout whole document or selection only.
  
• wx.ConvertShapesToCMYK - converts shapes and bitmaps to CMYK (selected/whole doc)
  
• wx.BitmapsDownsample - resamples bitmaps if its dpi is larger than specified by 20%. Asks dpi # and processes selected / whole doc, including powerclips. Shows per page statistics
  
• wx.BitmapsSetDPI - changes dpi value for bitmaps without resampling. Asks dpi # and processes selected / whole doc, including powerclips. Shows per page statistics.
  
• wx.BitmapsToPowerclips - puts bitmaps into powerclips. Asks bleed # and processes selected / whole doc. Shows per page statistics.
  
• wx.BitmapsResizer - to change (all/page/selected) bitmaps' dimensions proportionally (or force the values entered, if both X,Y are non-zero), optionally processes powerclipped contents
  
  
  
  
• wx.ScrollScreenDown, ...Up ...Left ...Right ...DownRight ...UpRight ...DownLeft ...UpLeft - Scroll by 80% of screen. Assign e.g. to Ctrl-Alt-Numpad keys (1 to 9)
  

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workspace UI storage cleanup

Test version which helps greatly maintaining large customized UI workspaces.

• You need it when it takes too long to open options's customization list (more than 1-2 seconds) which occures usually after a few months of moderate UI customizing.
• The macro works from inside of Draw as usual gms do, and optimizes UI .xml storage
  c:\Documents and Settings\**XPaccount**\
  Application Data\Corel\Graphics13\User Workspace\CorelDRAW\
  **WorkspaceName**\DRAWUIConfig.xml
• Keeps your custom icons, hotkey assignments, customized names for macros
• Removes temporary duplicates of macro definitions which is the real cause of fat XML file.

Usage: run macro, close Draw, backup old XML, rename the optimized file to DRAWUIConfig.xml

Download: wx_UICleanXML

GMStools

I want to facilitate GMS usage and here is the pilot project wx_GMStools.

• load a gms from anywhere by just drag'n'drop and make it available for running/editing in this session only
• load and copy gms to standard Draw gms folder
• rebuild a gms file to reduce its size before distribution. Works better than File->Save and produces files much smaller in case of complex project structure.
• create an empty gms without restarting Draw
• works with DRAW v12/X3/X4

Download: wx_GMStools