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

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