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how do i import a cdr file into adobe please?
Hello all,
I have received a disc from a client with artwork I believe to be originally created in Coreldraw (at least it seems to me to be a CDR Corel Draw Vector drawing file!)
I am strictly an Adobe man so does anyone have any idea of how to translate it to something I can use? I would post the file here but for the fact that the file is 4MB in size!!
Anyone got any suggestions at all?
Heres hoping…
K
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8 Replies
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Hi mate email it to me and I’ll see if it converts to .ai and send it you back
cheers
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Hey…
Thanks for the offer… but
It is 4MBs!
I know Hotmail will laugh at me, as will my Google mail too, so email is out the question really! Do you know what the file limit is on these boards? I somehow think that it won’t be close to that… but maybe (hopefully!) I am wrong.
K
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Hi
.rar or .zip ? may helpI’m sure I’ve had files larger than 4MB by email, though I may be wrong
PM Rob, I’ll have a go for you if you can get it up here 😉Cheers!
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If the file extention is a .cdr, just change it to .ai and open it in illustrator, I do that all the time as i prefer using illustrator.
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I can’t believe that one passed me by so obviously! I must be tired…
I will get a Zip program downloaded and see what I can do. Thanks for the offer, watch this space….
K
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Didn’t know u could do that Lee 🙂 i’ll try it once i get to the workshop
Thnaks for the tip
Paul
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There is always a caveat Paul, and this method of changing the extention does not always work, this was given as a suggestion to try and get Knilsen out of trouble.
Illustrator CS will practically open any other image file directly anyway (bitmap or vector), without changing the extention, but will only open corel V10 or under when changing the extention. Sometimes it will open V12, other times it will not, don’t know the answers there.
I found changing the extentions works a few years back when we received a file in the Macromedia Freehand format, changed the extention and it opened in Illustrator no problem. I find that some files we get are saved in all sorts of formats, so we use a script to convert them into all the other known formats and see then which one opens, this so far has got us out of trouble, as many of the files we receive the customer cannot even remember what software they were using. In our line of work, we deal a lot with the general puplic, this does not occur with our business clients, fortunately.
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Hi K,
Just a thought but if you have MSN and you set up MSN messenger you can transfer files if you get me you MSN account name/e-mail i will open mine and the you just set it to send file! and in the words of Paul Daniels “thats magic”! it will go! We use this to transfer all sorts of files, done up to about 20MB!this is quite a good tip for any one needing to send a file and it’s free!
Regards
Blue Cow
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