I do beer signs for a living. Sometimes I like to import other coreldraw files into my current work to take designs off of them, such as a curve or a portion of text. I then delete the unused parts. The problem is that whenever I do this, it makes the save file huge!
You can test this. Open an empty coreldraw file. Drag a few .cdr's into it. Delete everything you imported. Save the empty file. It will be the size of all those .cdr's combined!
Is this a bug or something I can fix?
Hello Shadowing; A man after my own hart. ( BEER ) I don't know why you are having that problem, BUT you can try grouping what you want to save and using the "Save As" and and select the"Selected only.
George
Doing that works. Not as easy as ctrl-s. Can you guys reproduce this? Each service pack I hope it gets fixed but it doesn't.
shadowinq said: Can you guys reproduce this?
Can you guys reproduce this?
I cannot reproduce this. Could you upload file for check.
Mek
Hrm, it only seems to happen with big files. This is a file with a big arial S in the middle of the page, nothing else. Original file size 400KB. I imported a large poster (60MB), then deleted it and saved it again. The file is now 38.5MB, but is only just a big S in the middle of the page. I uploaded the file to our distributor website since it's 38MB: http://www.comerdistributing.com/files/bigS.zip (I renamed the .cdr to .zip so that the webserver would serve it)
shadowinq said: This is a file with a big arial S in the middle of the page, nothing else. Original file size 400KB. I imported a large poster (60MB), then deleted it and saved it again. The file is now 38.5MB, but is only just a big S in the middle of the page. I uploaded the file to our distributor website since it's 38MB: http://www.comerdistributing.com/files/bigS.zip (I renamed the .cdr to .zip so that the webserver would serve it)
This is a file with a big arial S in the middle of the page, nothing else. Original file size 400KB. I imported a large poster (60MB), then deleted it and saved it again. The file is now 38.5MB, but is only just a big S in the middle of the page. I uploaded the file to our distributor website since it's 38MB: http://www.comerdistributing.com/files/bigS.zip (I renamed the .cdr to .zip so that the webserver would serve it)
As advised before you should check View Manager & Graphic and Text styles - these adds about 400 kB to your file. Anyway your main "trouble" is wit symbols. Look at Symbol manager (CTRL+F3). Three symbols added to file (one of symbol is the bitmap 1815x900 mm at 150 dpi and it is why you are getting huge file size. When Views, Graphic & Text Styles and Symbols deleted then you get file with small size.