Re: Importing Corel Draw
I've exported drawings to wmf and then opened them in OpenOffice Draw with no
apparant information loss.
Chris
Am Mittwoch, 26. November 2003 05:56 schrieb Terry Hancock:
> On Tuesday 25 November 2003 03:36 pm, Andreas von Heydwolff wrote:
> > There once was a free Linux port of PhotoPaint 9 from Corel running on
> > Corel Wine. It was buggy but I had it running quite nicely on my potato
> > system two years ago. I think it had import filters for CDR.
> > [...]
> > Why not grab a spare machine, throw an older distro at it and install PP
> > from some leftover archive on a forgotten ftp server.
>
> Seeing as PhotoPaint is a *bitmap* program, this would not
> truly import the CDR data, but *render* or *rastorize* it. Which
> is probably not what the original poster wanted. It would be
> far better to use a tool which can actually convert *vector-to-vector*.
>
> Sketch does this with CMX files, but I don't really understand the
> relationship between CMX and CDR (I stopped using Corel Draw
> around version 3.0, and there was no CMX format then). I would
> *guess*, though, that there is some intermediate version of Corel Draw
> which can read and write both formats. So I'm suggesting:
>
> 1) Use Corel Draw to convert CDR -> CMX
> 2) Use Sketch to convert CMX -> sk
>
> (I think you can probably also get SVG out with Sketch, though
> I'd have to check that -- it can certainly import SVG, but I'm
> less sure about exporting).
>
> Cheers,
> Terry
>
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> Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com )
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