[GH85Carrera]

We used Corel Draw! for vector files. We became a authorized service center for customer files and a tech support location. We had a few customers get stuck with a task they could not work out with phone support with the national support company. One lady that worked for a big oil company had a huge complicated drawing that was all vector points and she had many layers. She had imported some information from other programs that the center part company logo text was filled white. She was trying to make the center part of the letter O transparent. She had spent days working on it and hours with the paid tech support.

She brought in her 1.2 MB 5.25 inch floppy and I loaded the file. and as she was standing ther she pointed to the problem area. I zoomed in and as she looked for a place to put her purse and pull up a chair I clicked on the center of the O and hit a combination of something like Ctrl & Alt then C and that made the center of the object transparent. She missed it. She looked up and it was the way she had tried to make it look for days. She said STOP!, start over I missed it. SO I started over and showed her how easy it was once you knew the right combination of keys. She had paid for an hour of time and it took 5 seconds. So I spent an hour showing her other features and ways to make her drawing better.

In the end we output the file to our 8x10 film recorder and made 48 inch wide prints mounted behind plexiglass with optically clear adhesive. The graphic looked like it was part of the plexiglass and floated away from the wall. All of her bosses thought she was a genius and she bought me lunch.