Hey all, been a while....
Can X4 natively export to PDF?
kumorigoe said:Can X4 natively export to PDF
Yes and there are issues for different work flows. For example power clipped duotones shift to RGB, native color PDF creates a color shift to RGB when output to Onyx and VersaWorks RIPS. Metadimentions has trapping issues with transparency when published from Corel but not from Distiller.
Also, you can't use te imposition and other features of the Print preview for create a PDF using Publish to PDF. If you need it, you must create a Postscript file and convert to PDF using Acrobat Distiller
It is interesting that coreldraw doesn't support imposition to the export pdf function -- I wonder why not? This would seem like quite a handy feature request for X5.
Right now I found one inexpensive easy way to go was to purchase cutepdf pro to impose/booklet pdfs exported from coreldraw (at a fraction of the cost of acrobat.)
On the other hand, I do find having a seperate pdf engine to be handy a couple of times now when I've encountered a print glitch using the normal print and got around it with the publish to pdf (but most of the time it goes the other way where I wish I had the features of the normal full print engine in the built-in pdf export.)
This has been requested over and over again. Fortunately there are excellent free PDF generators like this.
Also, in Monstermerge, we have our own imposition engine that allows one to impose right inside Draw to a new larger sheet size.
Note: the only way for PDF marks such as bookmarks and hyperlinks to be preserved in final PDF is to use Draw's PDF engine. Yep, I found out the hard way...
Island said:It is interesting that coreldraw doesn't support imposition to the export pdf function -- I wonder why not? This would seem like quite a handy feature request for X5.
This has been requested over and over again. Fortunately there are excellent free PDF generators like this. Also, in Monstermerge, we have our own imposition engine that allows one to impose right inside Draw to a new larger sheet size. Note: the only way for PDF marks such as bookmarks and hyperlinks to be preserved in final PDF is to use Draw's PDF engine. Yep, I found out the hard way... Island: It is interesting that coreldraw doesn't support imposition to the export pdf function -- I wonder why not? This would seem like quite a handy feature request for X5. Jeff Harrison Featured Instructor CorelDRAW Unleashed Boot Camp Cruise Cruise from Los Angeles, California along the Mexican Riviera January 17-24, 2009 http://community.coreldraw.com/forums/p/8660/34704.aspx#34704
Island: It is interesting that coreldraw doesn't support imposition to the export pdf function -- I wonder why not? This would seem like quite a handy feature request for X5.
For a really nice looking program, the licensing of Monstermerge seems somewhat undesirable to me.
Quote: " This means if you buy the macro now, and want to run it on a brand new machine or different machine after receiving your first activation code, you must buy it again. So, think carefully about which system you want to run it on, because each MonsterMerge Macro you receive will be locked to one system only - forever."
For a $70 macro, it would seem much more fair to me if you could freely unregister it from the old machine and reregister it to a new machine should you want to upgrade hardware/os/etc. I guess it's not my right to criticize a programmer for wanting to maximize profit, but one thing I've always liked about CorelDraw itself is the fairminded licensing. If I upgrade hardware or change computers I never have to worry about it -- I just use the "one license = one instance running" "moral" license. Even adobe licensing which I consider to be a bit more of a pain allows you to "check out" the license if you want to run it on a laptop for example...