Corel Draw and Indesign

We would like to import/open directly a cdr file into Indesign instead of making an export into a indesign file from Corel Draw
Is it possible ?
Thank you

Corel Draw vs Indesign. Draw will actually be able to make objects instead of just import them. Indesign is very bad at making objects beyond the simplest geometric shapes. Come on it cant even make a clipping mask and those have been around for how many years now? Indesign will be little smoother on the total text heavy functions i give it that but coreldraw is a better all in one and can actually make your complete project in it not have to make things in photoshop/illustrator and import to indesign when you just need the CorelDraw suite. My favorite function in draw is copy/paste actually pastes it in the exact same spot you copied it from which is such a massive time saver you have no idea. How often do you have to waste time repositing pasted objects when just needed a copy in a slightly different spot from the origin?
CorelDraw can do all the major desk top publishing techniques needed. Tracking, kerning, leading, text styles, master pages, faceing pages, ect. I hate designing in indesign. Unlike illustrator or coreldraw you have a very limited art board space per page and it does not like you moving your screen around to look around and try. You cant really scroll left/right which is dumb.

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Hint : Corel Draw and Corel Photo Paint 8 LE legit & free download

I found this while searching for good software for OS9 :
http://main.system7today.com/software/corelgraphics8/corelgraphics8.html
Basically its the full Corel Suite ( has some Potoshop capabilities ) for free.
The only thing is you can only have open one document at a time , but no restrictions in save/edit or whatever. Also a great Help System how to learn graphics manipulation.
This runs extremely well under OS 9.22 with enough Ram. ( needs PowerMac CPU)
On the site is even more goodies to find. Also note that Corel has made their WordProcessor "WordPerfect" free for Mac OS. It's as good as MS Word.

I got it working myself
Maybe others are dealing with the same problem, so here is what I did:
At Corel's support website I found no information about similar problems, just a description how to set back the current workspace to factory defaults.
This is done by clicking at the program icon to start the software and then holding down the shift key immediately after clicking. Then a message box opens asking for confirmation.
Although I had done some custom settings to the workspace I had nothing to lose and gave it a try. Voila
Not sure what the reason behind is; I think that there are old configuration files existing or settings got mixed up for whatever reason.
Before I did so, I renamed the matching *.plist file at my user's library/preferences folder to *.plist.old - but this did not bring any improvement (in fact, even no new plist file became created).

Problem Corel Draw .eps files

I'm building a 1-color book in InDesign CS5. The illustrator generating the art files for this book is supplying .eps files created in Corel Draw. She says that she's greyscaling the art but when I load it into InDesign my preflight says that the art is generating cmy plates. I can fix it by saving the .eps in Adobe Illustrator and greyscaling it myself, but I'm wondering what is the disconnect between Corel Draw and InDesign. Is there some way I can use her files or is there some settiing she is not using that will make these art files read as one color (black)?
JB

Thanks for the quick response! I don't know the Corel product very well, nor
am I adept in Adobe Illustrator.
If I open the .eps file in Illustrator how can I view these extra channels
if they exist?
jab4jab

InDesign CS6 colors to Corel Draw 12

I've designed a logo and stationery for a small business customer. The logo has 2 Pantone colours. The offset printed letterhead has a 7% tint for a graphic element (curved stripes) printed in Pantone #137 (orange) as a large watermark on the page.
I saved the vector graphic element separately as a 7% tint of #137. The files are a two colour EPS file and a PDF for my customer to import and bring into some of his documents. Which he did. He uses Corel Draw and prints on his office inkjet printer.
The final graphic element output has a different tone than the original #137 orange. The printed graphic is pinkish and different than his letterhead.
What's doing that?...
Is Corel Draw changing my file from a spot color EPS to a CMYK file?
I don't use Corel Draw and have no idea what suggestions to make to keep the Pantone orange true. Can I fix it on my end by saving or exporting the file differently, OR can my customer do something in Corel Draw?
Mac OSX10.6.8, InDesign CS6.

How is he getting the EPS into CD? CD can interpret the EPS and convert it
all to CD objects or it can leave it alone, pretty much like placing it into
an ID file
As Bob mentions, CD, upon importing an EPS will give two options. The default is to open the EPS as editable objects, just like AI. This is exactly what you want them to do. Do not that also like AI, the objects will be grouped.
I can gaurantee you that your client does not want to choose the second option in CD, which is to "Place as Encapsulated Postscript." If they do, the entire page size that you had in ID will come in, which is likely larger than the art itself. This same thing happens when placing the EPS in ID.
BTW, the last thing I would even try doing is opening that file Illy. ID
created EPS files don't do well in that situation.
BTW, the last thing I would want to do is to not check the EPS with the tools I have.
And for the PDF, you should be using Acrobat. Which will simply confirm that the Pantones are present at whatever tinit value you specify (which they will be).
Take care, Mike

A marriage made in Heaven..Illustrator & Corel Draw.

Just sayin...
Starting a new job over a year ago, I was forced to do production art in a program called Corel Draw. I was born and raised in Illustrator, and I love so many feature that Illustrator has but..... I have also learned Corel and usig it in print production some of the features just blow away Illustrators version. I got spoiled with the ease of use. Now that my company is trying to switch over to Illustrator we are getting very frustrated. I would love for Corel Draw and Illustrator to get married. Adobe please please please incorporate a tool like the following in next versions of Illustrator
Corels "Power Clip" Vs Illustrator "Clipping Masks"
Corel allows you to put things in a nice clean container. Even in outline view you can not see what is hidden in the power clip. With illustrator in outline view its like nothing was ever put into a clipping mask. I want clean... we put our own printers marks on manually and trying to see through all the scribble it tough.
Better Editing in Corels "Power Clip" Allows you to go in and edit anything from text, color etc. then escape back to your original View. Editing an Illustrator clipping mask is cumbersome to say the least. Lets make it simple please.
Corels "Transform Tools" Vs Illustrator transform tools....
Corels ease of use especially for "step and repeat" is unmached in Illustrator.. Corel is so easy while Illustrator is like driving a semi-truck. Its just plain old clunky!
Don't get me wrong I love Illustrator..... I just wish the two would get married and make the best of both worlds.
Just sayin....

Would like to add Corel's ability to utilize blending modes from Phothsop layers (eg: so Photoshop drop shadows multiply rather than gradiate when placed on top of backgrounds in illustrator).
Illustrator is great, but more competition would be good for the graphics market, so we get the level of software development we had in the past. Where is Kai Krause, we need him.

Can InDesign CS3 open Corel Draw files?

Hi,
We have Corel Draw files that need to be converted to InDesign CS3. Can you advise if InDesign can open them?
Thank you
Barb

No. Indesign can Place EPS or PDF files saved from CorelDraw.
Illustrator can open CorelDraw files. You could then copy and paste from
Illustrator, although if it were me I think I would want to keep my
drawings in Illustrator, not Indesign.
Kenneth Benson
Pegasus Type, Inc.
www.pegtype.com

Open Corel Draw documents in InDesign?

Hi,
We have numerous documents built in Corel Draw 12 and previous versions. We need to convert them to InDesign CS3 files. Can this be done? If so, what kind of issues would we facing?
Thank you,
Barb

No easy way. You can save them as EPS and open them in Illustrator but
that's going to break the text up into numerous disconnected pieces.
From there you can either place or copy/paste (depending on layout and
what object it is) into InDesign.
Another idea would be to create PDFs and then use PDF2ID from Recosoft
to open those in ID.
Best bet however is to keep using CorelDRAW for the old stuff and create
new pieces with InDesign.
Bob

InDesign PDF importing to Corel Draw - problem

Hi,
I wonder if anyone has come across this problem, we have several designers in the office, all using either InDesign or Corel Draw X3 (all on PC).
Every time we import a PDF that has originated from InDesign into Corel Draw, the file corrupts. Most commonly, the text appears as Chinese writing and makes no sense.
When exporting the PDF from InDesign, all the text is set to curves, so I am not even sure why Corel is recognising the text elements as text, when they have been set to curves.
I have tried various export options from InDesign with no luck.
Help!!

When exporting the PDF from InDesign, all the text is set to curves, so I am not even sure why Corel is recognising the text elements as text, when they have been set to curves.
That would be Outlines, actually. Sorry, but what you are describing here is impossible. If you open the PDF with Acrobat and check its Fonts tab, neither embedded nor missing fonts should be listed -- the list should be entirely empty. If there are a few font names, your convert-to-outline procedure is not correct.
As for the problem Corel has with perfectly acceptable PDFs, I have no idea. Converting to outlines is, actually, frowned upon, as usually the PDF file format is robust enough not to need this, but it was a nice try if the fonts caused problems in other programs.

Printer only uses Freehand and Corel Draw

We want use a printer in China that only uses Freehand and
Corel Draw software (very primitive, I know). Is there a way to
export InDesign files to work in either of those
applications?

It depends what you mean by 'Convert'. If you just want to be
able to import into FreeHand (which version - MX?) you could save
as an EPS. If you want to be able to edit... it could be a
struggle. I tried this: From InDesign - save an EPS. Open the EPS
in Illustrator CS2 and save as an illustrator 8. FreeHand will then
open the Illustrator 8 file - it is editable BUT the text boxes get
broken down into many smaller ones.

Cannot copy and paste images from the web into Corel Draw

Attempting to copy and paste a jpg image from a client's website, for use in Corel Draw... Copy appears to work fine, and pasting into other programs like Windows Paint works, but paste to CorelDraw has no result.
I've seen where others would get the text URL but nothing happens when I hit paste.
Drag and drop imports the text name of the image.

Since Firefox 13, when you copy an image, Firefox places both the image data (bitmap data) and the URL of the image on the clipboard. I can see why you would get one or the other, but I can't think of why you would get nothing.
Did this just start in Firefox 22?
Some odd interactions have been noted between Firefox 22 and ZoneAlarm: when ''copying'' selected text in Firefox, the clipboard may end up blank a significant percentage of the time . But it sounds as though you have a different issue.
Do you have the same issue in Firefox's Safe Mode? That's a standard diagnostic tool to bypass interference by extensions (and some custom settings). More info: [[Troubleshoot Firefox issues using Safe Mode]].
You can restart Firefox in Safe Mode using
Help > Restart with Add-ons Disabled
In the dialog, click "Start in Safe Mode" (''not'' Reset)
Any difference?

Hi, somebody knows how to edit a file that I created in corel draw 11 and I need to edit like PDF!!!! is so simple and nobody knows howwwwwwwwwwww!!!!

Hi, somebody knows how to edit a file that I created in corel draw 11 and I need to edit like PDF!!!! is so simple and nobody knows howwwwwwwwwwww!!!!

See your other thread.

Need help importing corel draw 10 files into adobe indesign with editing ability.

I would like to know if anyone knows of a way to import corel draw 10 files into adobe indesign

Can't edit.
Best bet..and still a longshot depending on the layout, is to open in
Illustrator and do the editing there.
Bob

Searching for 1. power point App. and Corel draw App. or similar Apps.

I couldn't find Microsoft power point App. and Corel draw App. So could anybody tell me if there's a similar Apps. for my I PAD?
thanks a lot

Have a look at the following (in my order of preference)
http://itunes.apple.com/sg/app/quickoffice-pro-hd-edit-office/id376212724?mt=8&l s=1
http://itunes.apple.com/sg/app/documents-to-go-premium-office/id317107309?mt=8&l s=1
http://itunes.apple.com/sg/app/office2-hd/id364361728?mt=8&ls=1

I am trying to install Corel Draw x5 on windows xp pro via Parallels 7 and having an issue . it states about 99% through the install that it is missing a file any suggestions?

I am trying to install Corel Draw x5 on my new iMAC. I am trying to install it on windows XP Pro via Parallels 7. I have already installed some other programs without any issues so this has me puzzled. whenever the install reaches about 99% complete it says it can not find 2 files(sorry I cant recall what it was).

The error message I get is that iTunes is trying to incorrectly open Visual C services.
Is there somebody at Apple who actually read these things or are we on our own without any iTunes?

Printing problem with Epson R290 Illustrator and inDesign

I am running CS2 on Leopard and have recently purchased an Epson R290. The first time I used it with Illustrator and InDesign it worked fine but now whenever I print anything it prints a tiny version (about a sixth of the real size) of the design in the top left corner of the page. It does this both with new documents and old ones that used to print ok.

Since I posted the message about this problem I have discovered that it can be worked around by choosing a higher quality print. ie if you choose plain paper when printing from Illustrator or InDesign the printer prints a reduced size image but if you choose Ink jet mat or glossy the print comes out fine. I don't have this problem with Photoshop but that may be that I always print high quality from that application. I don't use Appleworks Draw so don't know whether this solves the problem for that application but iWork documents print ok.

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