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Doesanyone use CorelDRAW with Mac? Each time I try to open a braille template, Corel crashes. I am too new to Mac to really understand why this might be the case, or to have any idea how to go about fixing it.

Changing this setting can help because CorelDRAW makes high demands on your computer, and this setting attempts to allow other operations to occur in the background on your computer. If available hardware is older, or hard-drive space, or RAM memory is low, your computer will appear to lock-up when trying to keep everything running and also opening templates, saving files, or other operations.

Thanks so much for your replies, Donald. I am using CorelDRAW 2021. I have a brand new MacBook Air that I bought about 2 weeks ago. It's got the new M1 chip, and apparently CorelDRAW 2021 was designed with it in mind. It's only got 8GB of RAM, but I've been assured that with the new chips, that is plenty for what I want to be able to do. I checked and I do not have the "enable background tasks" button checked. It's already off. I will ask about being able to upload a copy of the template, and will do so if the person I got it from is ok with it.

For what it's worth, I am able to open other graphics files created from the templates in question. And then I can just edit those for what I need, by erasing what's already been drawn and starting over. But that's not ideal... (But it's a decent workaround for now.)

So now I want to switch to Affinity Designer. But apparently I can't just go and open my old .cdr CorelDraw files. I'd have to convert them to .ai Adobe Illustrator files (and potentially lose line widths etc, anyway it's a tedious extra step).

If you convert your files to .ai format, be sure to use the appropriate compatibility options to ensure that the .ai files also contain a PDF representation of the data. Like .cdr, the .ai file format is proprietary, and Affinity can only read it if the PDF information is included.

Try exporting from CorelDraw to another format. As with all these things, whatever features reside within CorelDraw, that don't reside in Affinity, they will not be transferred regardless of the format, in most cases those features will either be rasterised or not imported. Even if a feature is similar i.e. gradients, the method of application could be different enough to cause import issues. PDF seems to be the best bet format at the moment but don't expect miracles.

Thank for the replies. Ok, yes, I tried pdf as the go-between and it does preserve the layers, line widths, line types, arrow types, fonts, colours, gradient fills, all done well. The only thing to do is make sure all the layers are visible and printable. As a work-around this will do I think.

Didn't stop Inkscape writing an import filter. And CorelDraw can import AI files, also proprietory. It goes without saying some features will be lost in the process.

There are a lot of disgruntled CorelDraw users watching the development of Affinity apps and whilst there is a long way to go for pro users to be able to jump ship, the ability to import CorelDraw files will be viewed as a huge positive in trying to attract those users, myself included.

Indeed it is, however as a developer you have to be mindful of what your potential customers are using and the tools that they offer. Corel userbase is as large as it is because historically CorelDraw offered the largest set of import and export filters (amongst other things). Affinity are late to the party which kicked off in the late 80's. By the mid 90's the current major players (adobe and Corel) were already established. For Affinity to prosper in the professional market (and thats where the money is, in professional level tools) thats where they are going to recruit their customers from.

Your other drawbacks are easily solveable. Never offer current version import. Indeed establish an import filter for a recent stable version of the competitor product, say CorelDraw 2018. CorelDraw users of later versions can easily save back to that version, and more importantly can batch convert later files to an older version.

You do realise that Serif started in 1987? Page Plus was released in 1990 a year after Corel Draw 1.

That said I think being able to import Corel files would be a plus. Not that I have seen Corel since Version 3 in 1993-5 but there does seem to be a large userbase still.

CorelDRAW is a vector graphics editor developed and marketed by Alludo (formerly Corel Corporation). It is also the name of the Corel graphics suite, which includes the bitmap-image editor Corel Photo-Paint as well as other graphics-related programs (see below). It can serve as a digital painting platform, desktop publishing suite, and is commonly used for production art in signmaking, vinyl and laser cutting and engraving, print-on-demand and other industry processes. Reduced-feature Standard and Essentials versions are also offered.[citation needed]

In 1987, Corel engineers Michel Bouillon and Pat Beirne undertook to develop a vector-based illustration program to bundle with their desktop publishing systems. That program, CorelDraw, was initially released in 1989.[1] CorelDraw 1.x and 2.x ran under Windows 2.x and 3.0. CorelDraw 3.0 came into its own with Microsoft's release of Windows 3.1. The inclusion of TrueType in Windows 3.1 transformed CorelDraw into a serious illustration program capable of using system-installed outline fonts without requiring third-party software such as Adobe Type Manager; paired with a photo-editing program (Corel Photo-Paint), a font manager, Corel Capture, and several other pieces of software, it was also part of the first all-in-one graphics suite.[2]

For the first time, OpenType versions of Helvetica, Frutiger, Futura and Garamond #3 font families (32 fonts total) from Linotype foundry are included instead of the Bitstream counterparts. All but Garamond are in OpenType Pro format.[29]

Corel X7 introduced 30-day and 365-day rentals (subscriptions) as an alternative to buying a perpetual license. Corel Content Exchange, an online source for fonts, fill patterns and other materials, required continuing payments for access to the full range of content.[34]

Features include new AI-assisted PowerTRACE, bitmap upsampling, and bitmap artifact compression removal; new Stylized effects such as Pastel and Woodcut; nondestructive (lens) bitmap effects; another edge-finding mask tool; improved search and replace; and sliders to adjust OpenType variable fonts (Windows only).[42]

CorelDRAW was originally developed for Microsoft Windows 2.1, and versions existed for Windows 3.1x, CTOS, OS/2, and Power Macintosh. With the release of Corel Linux, CorelDRAW 9 was released with package support for Debian and Red Hat-based Linux.[47] Version 11 was released for Mac OS X in 2001, but was then discontinued on both Linux and Mac. CorelDRAW was available only for Windows until the 2019 version became the first to support macOS.[48][49][50]

As of 2021,[update] CorelDRAW Graphics Suite supports Windows 10, Windows 11, and macOS, including a new release for Apple silicon.[51] A related web app and iPad app offers collaboration and markup online. In 2024, a new trial version was released available directly in the browser.[52]

With version 6, Corel introduced task automation using a proprietary scripting language, Corel SCRIPT. Support for VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) macros was added in version 9,[53] and Corel SCRIPT was eventually deprecated. Support for VSTA (Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Applications) has been integrated in Windows versions since X5,[30] and currently requires Visual Studio 2017.[54] Version 2019 added Javascript as an option for cross-platform scripting with MacOS support; however, the built-in IDE does not support it as of 2020.[55]

In its first versions, the CDR file format was a completely proprietary file format primarily used for vector graphic drawings, recognizable by the first two bytes of the file being "WL". Starting with CorelDraw 3, the file format changed to a Resource Interchange File Format (RIFF) envelope, recognizable by the first four bytes of the file being "RIFF", and a "CDR*vrsn" in bytes 9 to 15, with the asterisk "*" being just a blank in early versions.[57] Beginning with CorelDraw 4 it included the version number of the writing program in hexadecimal ("4" meaning version 4, "D" meaning version 13). The actual data chunk of the RIFF remains a Corel proprietary format.

In December 2006, the sK1 open-source project team started to reverse-engineer the CDR format.[62] The results and the first working snapshot of the CDR importer were presented at the Libre Graphics Meeting 2007 conference taking place in May 2007 in Montreal (Canada).[63] Later on the team parsed the structure of other Corel formats with the help of the open source CDR Explorer.[64] As of 2008, the sK1 project claims to have the best import support for CorelDraw file formats among open source software programs. The sK1 project also developed the UniConvertor, a command line open source tool which supports conversion from CorelDraw ver.7-X4 formats (CDR/CDT/CCX/CDRX/CMX) to other formats. UniConvertor is also used in the Inkscape and Scribus open source projects as an external tool for importing CorelDraw files.[65][66][67]

In 2007, Microsoft blocked CDR file format in Microsoft Office 2003 with the release of Service Pack 3 for Office 2003.[68][69] Microsoft later apologized for inaccurately blaming the CDR file format and other formats for security problems in Microsoft Office and released some tools for solving this problem.[70]

In 2012, the joint LibreOffice/re-lab team implemented libcdr, a library for reading CDR files from version 7 to X3 and CMX files.[71] The library has extensive support for shapes and their properties, including support for color management and spot colors, and has a basic support for text.[72] The library provides a built-in converter to SVG, and a converter to OpenDocument is provided by writerperfect package. The libcdr library is used in LibreOffice starting from version 3.6,[73] and thanks to public API it can be freely used by other applications.

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