I am new to affinity Designer and Publisher. I have a Coreldraw 2020 file that has been used for creating a business card. I want to fully convert this into either Designer or Publisher for ongoing use.
The logos are created using individual vector objects. Refer attached screen shot of Coredraw layers and objects. How to I bring the vector objects into Affinity? and is it best to use Designer or Publisher for this situation?
As I understand things at thw moment there are issues with CDR importing into affinity. There have been a couple of discussions about this and unless I am mistaken, it can not be done directly. CDR like affinity extension is a proprietry format and is not easily accessible except to Adobe illustrator and a few others. I am not totally familiar with the technical things on this subject, but becasue of my lack of knowedge n this area with corel draw, I would simply save/export your files into an SVG, PDF, and EPS and see what happens, affinity of course handles these files. There are those who have extensive knowledge on these matters, I am only answering from off the top of my head - I hope you understand.
Microsoft - Like entering your home and opening the stainless steel kitchen door, with a Popup: 'Do you really want to open this door'? Then looking for the dishwasher and finding it stored in the living room where you have to download a water supply from the app store, then you have to buy microsoft compliant soap, remove the carpet only to be told that it is glued to the floor.. Don't forget to make multiple copies of your front door key and post them to all who demand access to all the doors inside your home including the windows and outside shed.
Apple - Like entering your home and opening the oak framed Kitchen door and finding the dishwasher right in front you ready to be switched on, soap supplied, and water that comes through a water softener. Ah the front door key is yours and it only needs to open the front door.
You can usually use either app (Designer or Publisher) here, so use the one you prefer. - In order to exchange vector data between different vendor apps, there are several ways. One is to try the direct way over the system pasteboard (copy/paste), or to export/reimport in a vector file format shared/supported by both applications. - So you can ...
Many years ago, when I moved from Corel Draw X7 to Designer, I exported my Corel files as pdf and as svg. Neither gave optimal results in Designer, but a combination of the two gave me satisfactory results.
One of the objects had a gradient fill, twhen this object came across appearance was correct but created an object for every element of gradient. I don't know if it is possible to merge them. For this instance this is fine I shouldn't need to change it. Again colours match in appearance but appear different CMYK breakdown and I don't yet know how to create this shape and effect smoothly in AD? I haven't looked on forums or guides in much detail yet but if anyone can direct me to other forums guides that would be useful.
Hi, I have been working in coreldraw for years but recently purchased a Boss Laser which runs on LightBurn. Extremely new to using Lightburn and am having issues when i convert a file over. I am using the lightburn Macro I found online which i believes convers the file to a SVG? Unsure if I have settings setup incorrectly but the image is not coming over correctly for me. I will include two images (first will be from corel draw *everything in my corel files that are black are laser etched away with the laser. Everything white is raised of left untouched) Second image will be how it is being brought over to LightBurn. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Here is a lightburn file. The smaller one is me just copying and pasting directly from having CorelDraw open and pasting into Lightburn. Coming over in the incorrect size but at least showing the design correctly with the two outlines around the 2.
Nashville Fire.lbrn2 (111.5 KB)
Hi Thanks Marcus, I have been playing around with this all day and am still having issues with how things are being brought over. Is it because I work in multiple layers / stack items when I am designing in Corel Draw?
LightBurn defaults to working in wireframe as it is easier to see all shapes that can affect the output. We do provide Filled-rendering as well, but things can get obscured if they fall behind another shape or object, and become more difficult to select, which can be confusing if not expected.
As we are migrating from Corel Draw to Indesign we came up to a very annoying situation. We have some designs in Coreldraw (streetmaps for example), drawn in vector format and layered with text.When we want to import these content into Indesign, the designs are bitmapped and in very bad shape. Does anybody has some tips for me to convert them - it will be a one time conversion - not many things to convert but far too much for complete redesigning.Would it help if we purchase Illustrator?Thanks
Kajje
I would want to migrate my art to Illustrator, then put it together with
text in Indesign. Or just keep CorelDraw for the art, and put the art
together with text in Indesign.--
Kenneth Benson
Pegasus Type, Inc.
www.pegtype.com
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I get your point, but it is even worse than you imagine. Actually we are not migrating from apples to oranges, we used oranges to plant apples. We were using Coreldraw for designing a newspaper, and that is exactly what we want to change now by using Indesign.2)
We tried many different ways, exporting into all possible vector based file formats. When I import them to -let's say- Flash, most of the conversion works. When I do a 'place' in Indesign the whole dump gets bitmapped.Anyway I'll try to find a version of Illustrator.Thanks for the help!
Kajje
How I turn high quality display on? Is this necessary with vectorized objects anyway?I admit we tried to copy and paste first, but after that we tried to export from Coreldraw into .eps .ai .wmf .emf .swf and placed them but all of them give either no either bitmapped result.Thanks
Kajje
Hmmm. I'm going to take that to mean that you tried everything and
nothing worked so you're copying and pasting.The reason nothing works is because you want one export/import format
that handles both text and art. You won't find one (at least one that
gets you something editable). Export your text as RTF and Place that in
Indesign. Export your art as EPS or PDF and Place that in Indesign, or
save it down to CDR 10, open it directly in Illustrator, save to AI and
Place in Indesign.Either way, everything should be Placed in Indesign, not pasted. And if
it still looks bad, turn on High Quality Display, or print it, or Export
it to PDF.
I can't vouch for SWF, and I would advise against using metafiles, but
the first four, if properly made, should give you vector images, at
least to the extent that they were already vectors. *Seeing* a good
image onscreen is going to require high quality display. *Printing* a
good image, for EPS and AI, is going to require a Postscript printer, or
taking the image through PDF.The trouble with all of these is that they're graphic formats. Once
you're fully migrated to Indesign, you want text + graphics.Since you now have Illustrator, you should be able to open your CDR
files directly in Illustrator. Depending on the complexity of the
drawings, you may be able to then copy and paste from Illustrator into
Indesign, but if you want the full range of Illustrator's capabilities,
you should save drawings as AI and Place them in Indesign.
InDesign needs the original file for printing and exporting to PDF; the only thing stored in the ID file is its bitmap preview. Contrary to what you might believe at the mo', it is not actually necessary to work in high quality mode. The file itself will not be altered by any view quality setting. However, if you cannot provide a valid link to it at print time, ID will roll its metaphorical eyes, complain a bit about missing files, and then print the preview bitmap.It works the other way around as well: if you switch to HQ preview and images still look downsampled, pop up the links panel and check.
Hi All, i had been using coreldraw to cut with prior to this, as we all know that can be hit or miss, now i have bought a new cutter, and it came with vinyl master cut, im not real smooth with vinyl master yet, its a struggle.
when i pasted the pdf into corel draw some of the lines were lined up or connected completely, went ahead and spent some time fixing that within coreldraw, only for it to do the same thing in vinylmaster when i pasted into vinylmaster.
this too is the pdf file, notice how the circle do not align, when i drew this in autocad, i made on of these ovals, and offset the outter portion, also in autocad everything was aligned and joined together as one piece, i then copied them around the outside to replicate the original 4th armored division patch.
first question is why didn't you export the autocad file as a dxf? then import that into corel draw to make the other changes you wanted (or just create it in corel draw to start with. then export that file as a .eps and IMPORT it into vinylmaster. not sure about you but I have not had consistent results ever copy and pasting them between programs and that is why they have the export and import to preserve the integrity of the file. I am guessing you design on corel as you are proficient in that and unable to do some things you can do in corel then . . . sure seems like a long way around but if it works - just don't copy and paste
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