Corel .cmx to AI8 Mac

When I no longer have access to Mac Classic OS, I won't able to access clipart in my ancient Corel Gallery 2 collection (circa 1995). The files are in .cmx format.
AI CS3 under OS X won't open the .cmx files.
An AppleScript on the the Corel Gallery 2 CD is supposed to use the 'Corel Gallery 2.0 PPC' application to export as EPS, but I can't get the batch portion of the script to work in Classic OS. The problem seems to relate to an unsupported drag and drop command.
I've installed Illustrator 8 under Classic. It will open the .cmx files and allow me to save them as AI 8 files (which would be my first choice of file format).
Can anyone suggest a way to use AI 8 to batch-process a folder of .cmx files to AI8 format?

Did you ever receive and answer for this. I too installed an old version of Illustrator thinking i was very clever until i couldn't find a batch process option

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Hi,
I have data of images with .cmx formats. Do you know how to open them with Adobe Illustrator on Mac?
Thanks.

Kurt Gold wrote:
See if you can purchase an older Mac compatible version of Corel Draw. You'd then be able to convert the .cmx files.
That is exactly what the OP does not have to do they can do that now.
They cannot open it directly in CS 3 or CS5 which is what they are asking.
I have an old license for the Corel Suites for the Mac that would run on my G3 and could like the op easily open the files but that would be a hassle.

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I have been a die-hard CorelDraw user for nearly 20 years now! So this switch is not easy on me! LOL But it's ended up being one of necessity.
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My HP laptop computer recently started acting pretty funny and finally gave up the ghost about a week ago. Over the years I've been under quite a bit of pressure from clients, fellow designers, and print shops to switch from CD to AI, but I'd resisted. But the replacement computer I ended up getting last week is a Mac, and I see it as a good opportunity to force myself to make the switch.
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I suppose I could just install Parallels or something similar, but if I'm going to make this switch to Mac, I'd like to keep things ALL Mac, and not give myself the option of reverting to old ways (LOL).
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I had a bitmap image in my original CorelDraw image and cropped it down a bit. In Corel, if I later wanted to "uncrop" that bitmap, I could easily do so. Is there a way of doing this in AI as well?
Also, When I'm trying to select objects within a specific area, the selector tool seems to select anything that the area even partially touches. So if the edge of an object falls within my selection area, the whole object is selected. Or if there are objects on top of a background object and I try and select, the background object gets selected as well because it is "touched" by the selection area. This is driving me batty!
I'm sure there will be more issues as I start working my way through things, but these are for starters.
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Hi Laura,
1 - The issue of opening CDR files: One solution may be to download a trial of Corel Draw to your Mac and save your files as Illustrator documents or to convert them using a converter like Inkscape (http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/FAQ)
2 - Illustrator doesn't have a "crop" tool perse. Instead, you use clipping and opacity masks to hide areas of the image. The images can later be "released" from the mask, if you'd like. Here are some videos explaining how to do this.
3 - The issue of selection: I have never used Coreldraw myself, nor do I have an idea of how much experience you have with Illustrator, so please forgive me in advance if I am oversimplifying my explanation here. There are two selection tools: the Selection Tool (black arrow) and the Direct Select Tool (white arrow). The black arrow will select entire objects within a dragged selection area, while the white tool selects points within a selection area. As far as accidentally selecting objects below the desired one, try shift+clicking on the top object to add it to your selected objects instead of drag selecting, or dragging the tops objects to a new layer and locking the one below. Individual objects can also be locked.
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> I was trying to download an CS 3 Trial version to see if
and how it'll open my
> Freehand MX Files. I thought this process was a complete
disgrace! I tried and
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Duplicate applications after using Migration Assistant

I'm posting this because I haven't seen this topic addressed yet regarding using Migration Assistant for transferring data from old G5 to new Mac Pro.
I used the Migration Assistant, which took hours to transfer data and stopped the first time due to a power backup overload. The second time I ran it, everything had transferred successfully, and I've been using my Mac Pro for almost two weeks now, with slight glitches that have been easily solved.
Here's my situation: In my Applications folder, there are a number of applications that have "(from old Mac)" as a suffix. Specifically, all of my Adobe Creative Suite applications have duplicates, as does Cocktail Extras, Corel Painter IX, DiskTracker (Mac OS X), Extensis Suitcase X1, Fetch 4.0.2, Finale 20045 and 2005b, and FontDoctor X for Macintosh.
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Anyone having any experience with this? I don't want to reinstall a lot of things unless I have to, as I will be upgrading a lot of the apps as soon as Intel-native versions are released, and things are working well so far.
Thanks for any advice you can give me.
2 x 3 GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon Mac OS X (10.4.8) 8 GB RAM
1.8 Mhz G5 Mac OS X (10.4.2)

Yes, it's OK to trash them. You have transferred items that are from a PPC Mac to an Intel Mac that apparently had Intel versions of the same software already installed. You definitely do not want PPC versions (this does not apply to most Adobe software which is PPC-only.)
Unfortunately, Migration Assistant doesn't always know when not to transfer PPC software to an Intel Mac. This is especially a problem for the /Home/Library/ and /Library/ folders because MA may overwrite Intel components with PPC components. This can cause the Intel Mac to run slowly or not at all.
A Basic Guide for Migrating to Intel-Macs
If you are migrating a PowerPC system (G3, G4, or G5) to an Intel-Mac be careful what you migrate. Keep in mind that some items that may get transferred will not work on Intel machines and may end up causing your computer's operating system to malfunction.
Rosetta supports "software that runs on the PowerPC G3 or G4 processor that are built for Mac OS X". This excludes the items that are not universal binaries or simply will not work in Rosetta:
Classic Environment, and subsequently any Mac OS 9 or earlier applications
Screensavers written for the PowerPC
System Preference add-ons
All Unsanity Haxies
Browser and other plug-ins
Contextual Menu Items
Applications which specifically require the PowerPC G5
Kernel extensions
Java applications with JNI (PowerPC) libraries
See also What Can Be Translated by Rosetta.
In addition to the above you could also have problems with migrated cache files and/or cache files containing code that is incompatible.
If you migrate a user folder that contains any of these items, you may find that your Intel-Mac is malfunctioning. It would be wise to take care when migrating your systems from a PowerPC platform to an Intel-Mac platform to assure that you do not migrate these incompatible items.
If you have problems with applications not working, then completely uninstall said application and reinstall it from scratch. Take great care with Java applications and Java-based Peer-to-Peer applications. Many Java apps will not work on Intel-Macs as they are currently compiled. As of this time Limewire, Cabos, and Acquisition are available as universal binaries. Do not install browser plug-ins such as Flash or Shockwave from downloaded installers unless they are universal binaries. The version of OS X installed on your Intel-Mac comes with special compatible versions of Flash and Shockwave plug-ins for use with your browser.
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Additional links that will be helpful to new Intel-Mac users:
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Apple Guide to Universal Applications
MacInTouch List of Compatible Universal Binaries
MacInTouch List of Rosetta Compatible Applications
MacUpdate List of Intel-Compatible Software
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Basically the instructions you should follow are:
1. Backup your data first. This is vitally important in case you make a mistake or there's some other problem.
2. Connect a Firewire cable between your old Mac and your new Intel Mac.
3. Startup your old Mac in Target Disk Mode.
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In your /Home/ folder: Documents, Movies, Music, Pictures, and Sites folders.
In your /Home/Library/ folder:
/Home/Library/Application Support/AddressBook (copy the whole folder)
/Home/Library/Application Support/iCal (copy the whole folder)
Also in /Home/Library/Application Support (copy whatever else you need including folders for any third-party applications)
/Home/Library/Keychains (copy the whole folder)
/Home/Library/Mail (copy the whole folder)
/Home/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist (* This is a very important file which contains all email account settings and general mail preferences.)
/Home/Library/Preferences/ copy any preferences needed for third-party applications
/Home /Library/iTunes (copy the whole folder)
/Home /Library/Safari (copy the whole folder)
If you want cookies:
/Home/Library/Cookies/Cookies.plist
/Home/Library/Application Support/WebFoundation/HTTPCookies.plist
For Entourage users:
Entourage is in /Home/Documents/Microsoft User Data
Also in /Home/Library/Preferences/Microsoft
Credit goes to another forum user for this information.
If you need to transfer data for other applications please ask the vendor or ask in the Discussions where specific applications store their data.
5. Once you have transferred what you need restart the new Mac and test to make sure the contents are there for each of the applications.
Written by Kappy with additional contributions from a brody.
Unfortunately, if you find problems with your new computer it may be due to problems that arise when migrating from a PPC Mac to an Intel Mac using Migration Assistant. If this be the case your only recourse is to reinstall OS X. You should also reinstall your third-party software (or update it) to be sure you are using universal binary versions (if available.)
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Compatible adobe software

Can Mac's run Adobe and corel products?

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I have a MacBook - MAC OS X Version 10.6.8 -- I would like to run WordPerfect 9 by Corel Office on it. Is there any way to do it?

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No, you can't run that on Mac OS X; what makes you think you could?
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There is no native Mac OS X version of Corel Draw.
If you need this application you need to install a version of Windows on your iMac via OS X Boot Camp application and install Corel Draw through Windows and run it through Windows on your iMac.

What program can l use to make cards, presentation cards in my Mac? something equivalent to Corel Draw from Windows

I used to use Corel Draw from Windows to make cards, birthday cards, invitation cards, etc.
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Mary --
I used PrintShop for years. Here's the link to the Apple Store page on "drawing."
http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_mac/software/design_publishing
Also "Print Explosion" is good. It's included in this link:
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You can also do photo books & calendars through iPhoto.
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PSE 8 for Mac

Hi to all
Scuse my bad english. I leave Windows to Mac
First:
I'm just trying PSE 8 and can't clone a zone
I right click to choose the zone to clone and get an error message when I left click to clone: "choose a zone to clone before"
May be it's not authorized because it's a trying version!?
Second:
I can't make a GIF with a transparency color
I choose Preferences > Transparency
I click with the pipette one the white zone of the picture
I click OK in the window Preferences
I register it under GIF format
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Is there somebody to help me ?
Cordially
Porquy

Hi -V
I click right on the zone to duplicate, then I left click, getting an
error message "Impossible to use the tampon tool, because the zone to
duplicate has not been defined (Option clic to define a source point)"
I dont understand, on Windows I know this operation with Corel
For the transparency it's OK now
Le 19/02/10 15:35, toxryan a écrit :
Hi Porquy,
First:
For clone stamp to work you should first define the source to clone. That you can do by pressing option key (alt key on windows) and clicking on the image area that you want to clone. Note that right click doesn't work here.
Now just click at the destination location where you want to paste (copy) the source area.
Second:
The Transparency settings in the Preferences have to do with the image background, as to what should the background look at a particular area in the image that is transparent.
For your purpose, just do this:
Go to File menu> Save for Web.
In Save for Web dialog, under presets: select "GIF" for file formats, Transparency box checked on and "None" for Matte.
Click OK and save the file at the desired location.
I hope this is what you were asking.
Cheers,
toxryan
>

Back to a Mac or not???

To go back to a Mac or not that is the question more or
less...
My last experience with a Mac way System 7 days on a Mac
IIsi.
I have been using Windows for a while now and man, I'm am
just tired of patch the patch, worms, spyware.
The big question is what problems will I run into on a Mac
Powerbook with Dreamweaver and MS Access databases?
I guess, I will have to use CS2, yuck... I'm a Corel guy 8)

> To go back to a Mac or not that is the question more or
less...
>
> My last experience with a Mac way System 7 days on a Mac
IIsi.
There's been a few updates since then. ;o)
> The big question is what problems will I run into on a
Mac Powerbook with
> Dreamweaver and MS Access databases?
Well, if you want to use OSX on your mac, the biggest problem
is that you
can't run Access on OSX.
Granted, you probably shouldn't be using Access for web work
to begin
with...
If you are using Access, I'm guessing you are also using ASP.
ASP requires
IIS to run and IIS will not run on OSX either.
Of course, you can install Windows on a Mac, so you could buy
your Mac and
use it as a windows machine, but then you're back with having
the same ol'
windows probelms it sounds like you want to get away from.
Alternatively,
you could run Windows in virtualization mode on top of OSX,
which would be
nice.
Bottom line, though, if you are a web developer that works
mainly with
Microsoft technologies (.net, asp, access, etc.) it probably
makes sense to
stick with a Microsoft OS.
Otherwise, the Mac is a great web developer platform. OSX can
easily run
Apache, PHP and the like. As mentioned, you can also run
Windows so it
becomes a great testing computer as well.
-Darrel

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I realize we have two totally different operating systems, but it seems that you can get so close to sharing files and then there's a blockade. I have a iMac 24 and I love it. I also love Cored Draw, have been using it for 15 years and I still don't have the courage to install my purchased copy of Parallels!!! So I create vector graphics on my PC, then export as a GIF or PDF. I can use those files on my pc, but for some strange reason... in the folder where I'm storing them (and they show up on the PC) only the original *.cdr Corel files are showing up... none of the GIF files or JPG or PDF files show up. And like I said, they are there, I can see them in the explorer window on the pc.
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What I meant (and didn't explain well enough) was you should try to put your .jpgs in a different/separate folder, e.g. copy/duplicate/export or whatever you need to do on a Windows machine to get a separate copy in a separate location. You could test it by sending yourself an email attachment and/or copy it to a thumb drive, other external, or a CD. If you can open/read any of those on the Mac, then I'd say the problem is on the Windows side. I have to help my elderly neighbor occasionally with his Windows machine and encountered a similar problem: a .jpg he wanted me to copy to a thumb drive would not cooperate.
+Is it possible that a Mac cannot see/read files created under Vista+
AFAIK, .jpgs and .pdfs are a "universal" format; I email either/both to/from friends using Windows and we've never had a problem. I'm not sure about .cdr since that is a proprietary format and may only work with the app version it was created in.

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