Has anyone else run into this? I tried to open a couple PDF's in Corel Draw X3. They opened beautifully, all the graphics were in place & the spacing and typestyles were all correct. But every word was SPELLED BACKWARDS. It's not that it was a mirror image; each character was perfectly formed but, for example, "Word" was spelled "droW". I cannot figure out any way to correct it.
Does anyone have a solution?
PS - The original was produced in CorelDraw X3, and published to PDF. In case you're wondering, the original *.cdr was damaged, but we have the PDF and I thought it would be a simple matter to bring it back into CoreDraw for editing.
Do you also have a Chesire cat? Couldn't resist! That's an odd one alright. What happened to the cdr that it's damaged? Did the damage possibly cause the corruption of the pdf? Can you open in Acrobat and view alright? That would probably indicate there's something happening in the import to Corel. Perhaps you could save it from Acrobat or another intermediate software and then try importing.
Thanks, Stoddard, for the quick reply!
The damage was that the cdr was accidentally deleted, but we still had the pdf and were trying to reopen it for editing.
I have duplicated the problem several times, always with the same results. Careful examination reveals that the spelling is not precisely backward, but almost. Sometimes adjacent words are scrambled together. It doesn't matter whether I "open" or "import" the file, the results are the same, but only if I specify text. If I specify curves, it looks perfect, but of course it is not ready for editing.
I tried opening the files in Acrobat, then saving to a different name and trying to open in CD, but the results are the same.
Any clues to a fix or a workaround?
Sorrry to mistake your name, Scott!
This is a new one on me... but I would suggest that if your PDF isn't displaying properly in Acrobat, then it's all downhill. No auto backup file anywhere so you don't have to start from scratch? I think this maybe one of those 11th hour lessons. Maybe someone else will have a suggestion. I don't think I would use the file however, as you may find after reconstructing that there is something that could still corrupt the file (in otherwords a fresh blank page).
It displays properly in Acrobat. In fact every test file that I have made opens correctly in other programs that open PDFs. It's only when I try to open them in CD that I get that peculiarity.