opening draw 3 files from artshow 3 with corel 9
Samvado Gunnar Kossatz
I have corel 9 (and 8 and 7 and ... down to 4)
I tried to open a file from artshow 3 with 9 but it wouldnt open it.
then I installed corel 4 (the oldest corel I kept, I threw corel 3
away a couple of years ago) - it could open the 3 files OK
but when I rebooted win98 corel 4 would not start but say that some
dlls are missing
what am I missing here and most important - is there a way to open
corel 3,4 and 5 files with 9 and HOW.
thanx
-sam
Brian L Johnson
> what am I missing here and most important - is there a way to open
> corel 3,4 and 5 files with 9 and HOW.
>
The Artshow file format was changed several times throughout its life
and, unfortunately, support for it is, at best, patchy. With all Draws,
support for previous versions of the CDR format is curtailed and the
best solution I can think of for both forward and backward
compatibility to Draw 9, is to install Draw 5.
Draw 4 is now too long in the tooth and has problems with later apps
(ICQ for instance) installing newer versions of Draw4's DLLs so that
Draw can't work correctly. So far, Draw 5 (even though it's still a 16-
bit program) seems to have escaped that particular problem, however, I
fear it won't be long... B^(
Meanwhile, as I say, your best bet is to install Draw 5 and try to haul
all your needed files up from their earlier versions using that.
HTH
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Samvado Gunnar Kossatz
meanwhile I did succeed in getting corel 4 to run on win95b
I could also open most (95%) of all artshow 3 files with it.
the problem I didnt realize was not that corel 9 can not open corel 3
files because it can.
the problem was that on artshow 3 CD most files are in even older
formats - down to 1.1 - and those are only opened by corel 4, not even
5
thank you anyway
-sam
Samvado Gunnar Kossatz
Brian L Johnson
> meanwhile I did succeed in getting corel 4 to run on win95b
> I could also open most (95%) of all artshow 3 files with it.
>
Excellent! As you say, though, the very old formats are difficult for
later Draws to read. The reason is that they used an entirely different
font format and that's simply not compatible with Windows 9x.
Still... 95% is a good success rate. B^)
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Samvado Gunnar Kossatz
<draw...@corel.ca> wrote:
>Still... 95% is a good success rate. B^)
yes, and it did cost me most of the weekend :-(
fortunately I have 2 networked machines so I could
load with 4 on one, save and immediately re-open with 9
on the other machine and save in 9 format.
now I have many files from 3 (about 360)
and from 4 (about 190) in corel 9 format, fonts of course mostly
missing or rather replaced by some panose type.
reason I didnt do all: many where not too interesting for me,
speadsheet. listings or quite simple drawings I omitted. Most if not
all of the outstanding stuff I did convert.
because I own a server I am offering those for download under
ftp.lightage.com/pub/artshow3.zip (38 MB)
and artshow4.zip (44 MB)
I do hope corel has no copyright objections. These files are
kind of outdated and anyway without the booklet quite useless
unless you want to load them all to look at them (what a job!)
so only owners of the artshow would benefit.
maybe you could do a checkup on that issue as sort of "better
connected" person, I would appreciate that.
should there be an objection I will remove the files of course.
just let me know
greetings
-sam
Brian L Johnson
> because I own a server I am offering those for download under
> ftp.lightage.com/pub/artshow3.zip (38 MB)
> and artshow4.zip (44 MB)
>
> I do hope corel has no copyright objections. These files are
> kind of outdated and anyway without the booklet quite useless
> unless you want to load them all to look at them (what a job!)
> so only owners of the artshow would benefit.
> maybe you could do a checkup on that issue as sort of "better
> connected" person, I would appreciate that.
>
I'll ask and see what they say. Sounds to me like a good service. B^)
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Brian L Johnson
> should there be an objection I will remove the files of course.
>
<sigh> Corel came back quick as a flash and said you'd have to take
them down. Sorry, dude. B^(
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Samvado Gunnar Kossatz
<draw...@corel.ca> wrote:
thanx for asking,
I 'll take them down no problem ...
saves me bandwidth :-)
I am wondering HOW bad a company can go down before it accepts help
well, not my decision, anyway
-sam
Brian L Johnson
> I 'll take them down no problem ...
>
Thanks.
> I am wondering HOW bad a company can go down before it accepts help
>
I don't think it's just meanness on Corel's part -- I think their legal
guys are worried about copyright issues on the files. Lawyers _do_ tend
to get paranoid about these sorts of things. <g>
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