I am just completing a big project that involved importing PDF ads into a Corel document. I have found that importing PDFs into CorelDraw is a hit and miss process. Some PDFs imported fine. Others were unusable or just didn't look right or had missing fonts. Fortunately, I had access to Adobe Acrobat and could export the PDFs to a bitmap file either tiff or jpeg. My questions are:
Why does CorelDraw have problems with PDFs?
Does a PDF have to be created a certain way before Corel will import it correctly?
I've tried PDF Fusion and have the same problem. If this application allowed for exporting PDFs to Tiffs or Jpegs that would solve my problem. Is this option in the works for future releases or fixes for Corel PDF Fusion?
Thanks for any responses.
As far as importing, I think a lot depends on how (as in options chosen) and with what program the PDF was originally saved. I run into this occasionally, and there's really no way to know up front. But when I've known the original author, I've been able to get them to resave using different options and CD handles the results just fine.
Same goes for other files you might import - EPS and AI are two of the more notorious examples.
It would be nice if CD could handle every flavor of pdf out there - but I'm not sure it's feasible. I suspect pdfs aren't as standard as everyone would like to think.