can anyone help with exporting corel files please?

[David Rowland]

are you using Outlook/Outlook Express / Web browser to read your mail?

attachments normally appear correct.

[ANDREW S]

Yes Dave, Outlook Express at both ends ??

[David Rowland]

hmmm… when you receive the files in Outlook Express, under the attachments section of the email they are called “File1.cdr” and alike… when you “Save the attahcments to a folder”… they automatically change into File1.PDF?

[Steve Dawson]

i may be barking up the wrong tree here…..

but tell me this , are you saying when you try and open them , acrobat comes up and then gives an error ?

if so , one of 2 things could be going on here….

1. sounds daft , but do you have corel loaded , if not , it will try and open in the next best program

2. if you do have corel loaded , are your associations set right , i.e. , in explorer , find your saved file , right click , properties , and check that “opens with” is the correct program…an easier way around this is to open corel first , then use “file” “open” to load in your file….

sd

[ANDREW S]

Thanks Guys,
The file is recieved as an acrobat file , ie seems to have changed itself in transit.
But I will try Gypsys second point later
Cheers

[sjet2002]

Have you tried sending the .cdr extension files, attached to the email in a zipped format.

This will obviously mean that your supplier will need the relevant software to compress the file before attaching.

You should then be able to save the zip file first before un-compressing it to reveal the enclosed .cdr file.

I normally use WinRAR, when I encounter difficulties like this.

Are you using Windows XP, which service pack ?

Ian.

[David Rowland]

Hi
More likely the customer did Publish to PDF out of Corel or Illustrator uses PDF as native.
When ever I send artwork to someone I sent as PDF, gets around font issues etc.

no worries… cheers