Convert Corel cpt files to jpg

hjmler

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Feb 15, 2012, 9:15:19 PM2/15/12

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or png... discovered some thousands of old cpt photos on some old hard
drives...
lots of scanned family photos... don't have Corel around anymore...
have tried Photoshop, Xnview, Irfan, Ulead PhotoImpact, and several other
shareware and freeware photo editors... I need to batch convert cuz opening
and exporting 1 by 1 will take longer than I'm likely to live

Bear

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Feb 15, 2012, 9:24:11 PM2/15/12

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http://www.ehow.com/how_5061494_convert-cpt-jpg.html

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hjmler

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Feb 15, 2012, 10:01:25 PM2/15/12

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"Bear" <bearbott...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> On 2/15/2012 8:15 PM, hjmler wrote:
>> or png... discovered some thousands of old cpt photos on some old hard
>> drives...
>> lots of scanned family photos... don't have Corel around anymore...
>> have tried Photoshop, Xnview, Irfan, Ulead PhotoImpact, and several other
>> shareware and freeware photo editors... I need to batch convert cuz
>> opening
>> and exporting 1 by 1 will take longer than I'm likely to live
>>
>>
> http://www.ehow.com/how_5061494_convert-cpt-jpg.html
>
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got the latest Irfan and plugins and installed... no joy... won't
open a single file and won't do batches either... sez it can only
handle Corel cpt 6.0 files and these I've got must be something
different ... tried to convert to tiff, bmp, jpg... no go...

but thanks for your rapid reply...

Craig

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Feb 15, 2012, 10:56:09 PM2/15/12

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Normally I wouldn't suggest this but I'm stumped otherwise... How about
a free trial version?
http://www.corel.com/corel/category.jsp?cat=cat4130083&rootCat=cat3610091

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Zo

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Feb 16, 2012, 10:21:44 PM2/16/12

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hjmler brought next idea :

You mentioned XNview as one you have tried, but did you try using the
NConvert commandline plugin???

NConvert
http://www.xnview.com/en/download_nc.html

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hjmler

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Feb 17, 2012, 1:27:03 AM2/17/12

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downloaded the trial... big fat 250mb worth... installed and converted to
tiffs to archive and jpg's to give to family in cd's ... batch tool worked
fast... played with their object cutout tool and the HDR merge...
tempting...

hated to be backed into using it cuz it's such a beast to uninstall...

thanks much ...

Craig

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Feb 17, 2012, 11:18:11 AM2/17/12

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Wow... OK.

I'm glad you found your way outta that proprietary mess. Couple of
things came to mind about this situation:

First, I'm with H-Man: I stay away from proprietary file types. Second,
and I shoulda remembered this before: Some "proprietary" filename
extensions are simply renamed common file types.

IOW, take a look at one of the files in question. Although it might
have a bizarre, unusual and maddeningly unique filename extension, it
just might be a zip file leading to a jpg or w/e.

thx for letting us know what worked,

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Susan Bugher

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Feb 17, 2012, 1:52:53 PM2/17/12

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H-Man wrote:

> On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:18:11 -0800, Craig wrote:
>> On 02/16/2012 10:27 PM, hjmler wrote:
>>> "Craig"<netbu...@REMOVEgmail.com> wrote in message
>>> news:jhhuor$5ng$1...@dont-email.me...

<snip>

>>>> Normally I wouldn't suggest this but I'm stumped otherwise... How about a
>>>> free trial version?
>>>> http://www.corel.com/corel/category.jsp?cat=cat4130083&rootCat=cat3610091

<snip>

>>> downloaded the trial... big fat 250mb worth... installed and converted to
>>> tiffs to archive and jpg's to give to family in cd's ... batch tool worked
>>> fast...

<snip>

>> IOW, take a look at one of the files in question. Although it might
>> have a bizarre, unusual and maddeningly unique filename extension, it
>> just might be a zip file leading to a jpg or w/e.

<snip>
> Looks pretty special in there.
<snip>

Yup. Might get unraveled some day. . . maybe. . .

http://code.google.com/p/cptinfo/
"CPTInfo is a Win32/Linux C console application which aim is to become GIMP plugin allowing import of Corel PHOTO-PAINT's layered format CPT images (CPT format concept is similar to Adobe's PSD or GIMP XCF)."

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