How do I import a .cdr file?

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How do I import a .cdr file?

A client has supplied a CorelDraw .cdr file and I need to bring it into Pages.

If I could only get it into an .eps format I could use Preview to convert it to a pdf. All my options so far have failed, including Illustrator CS2 which is supposed to open .cdr files.

Anybody have a solution?

Thanks.

Beaut iMac G5 2Ghz + G4 400 AGP upgraded to G4 1000 that bombs all the time, Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Posted on Oct 22, 2007 11:40 AM

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Answer 1

Mr. Large

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176 points

Oct 22, 2007 1:41 PM in response to Peter Breis1

I don't mean to sound rude, but your client really should have known better than to send a file type that is so limited on what you can use to open it. If Adobe Illustrator didn't work, I would just politely inform the client that you do not have Corel Draw or Corel Paint Shop and ask that he export it into a different file format, such as a PDF.

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Peter Breis1 Author

Level 1

111 points

Oct 22, 2007 5:57 PM in response to Mr. Large

Yes I know all that, but the client doesn't and is all they have from a previous job which was archived sometime when my contact wasn't around.

As usual they just "want to get it done" and it "worked before". They aren't to know what is or isn't good practice and just find we designers seem to bicker between each other as to what is good and what isn't.

I think perhaps the printer, whoever that may have been, may have just converted it on their own machine to something useful. I can't imagine what else they did with it. Unfortunately I don't have CorelDraw myself and don't want to pay for it just for this.

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Tom Gewecke

Level 10

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Oct 22, 2007 8:26 PM in response to Peter Breis1

Unfortunately I don't have CorelDraw myself and don't want to pay for it just for this.

Perhaps there is a free trial of the app which could do the necessary?

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Peter Breis1 Author

Level 1

111 points

Oct 22, 2007 8:45 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

That's a thought Tom.

I guess I am just dreading the time I'll waste on installing and trying to get software to work on my PC, then fixing all the consequent problems, just for one lousy file!

I just checked and there is a 15 day trail which may do the trick although it is a big DL.

Failing that Capt Sparrow may have to come to the rescue. 🙂

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