Re: Importing Corel Draw
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 )
Anansi Spaceworks http://www.anansispaceworks.com
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