John Clements said

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>You may also find that Elliptical fills and transparencies can save a lot of frustration in trying to achieve certain effects ... something you simply can't do in DRAW.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

It's not easy but it can be done, embraced and extended.

I personally don't use the feature but CorelDRAW has a little used feature in my experience called Full Color Pattern transparency / fill. It allows you to take any vector drawing, say a blend group of ellipses /rectangles and in later version mesh fill, which you can use as a transparency mask or fill.

I have managed to replicate Xara effects using this method, the end result is not very editable you have to keep tinkering with the blend group pattern saving and re applying until it is correct but it can be done.

Peter