Certain PDF files that I import, after the text/curves and font substitution dialogs fail to import due to a "The file is corrupted." error:
I don't have much hope that the issue will be corrected in the source application so I'm hoping there may be some possibility of Corel fixing this. I had hoped it would be fixed in X7 but it wasn't.
I've included an example at this link:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/vkbz9j97njtm1ct/AAD13tCkHPoU-1Ui5-Etwz-Ja
The original file can't be imported into CorelDraw but works fine in every other application I've tried it in such as Adobe Acrobat, Firefox and Chrome (using their native PDF readers), Windows 8.1 preview app, Android PDF readers, etc.
While it's likely there is something non-standard in the original file, CorelDraw is the only application to make a fuss about it and clearly there is enough information in there for proper rendering so I just need CorelDraw to ignore whatever error it's encountering.
I've found that loading and re-saving such files in Acrobat Pro does not fix them - they still cannot be imported. However, if I load them in Acrobat Pro and save using the "Optimize" option, the resulting PDF can be imported without error. Examples of these 2 re-saved files are included in the link above.
While the save Optimized is a suitable workaround, I sometimes have to work with many such files at the same time and since there does not appear to be any way to automate or run through the command line the save Optimized procedure in Acrobat I have to do so for each file individually which is slow and tedious. I'd love to see this issue fixed in CorelDraw.
I also wonder if there is any way to make font substitution choices persistent so that they are automatically applied without confirmation through a dialog every time I import a PDF. Similarly for the text/curves dialog. There are very few cases were I'd want to import text as curves so I'd much rather be able to set a default and have PDF files imported without interaction with an option somewhere to restore the dialogs when I need them. Again, for a few imports this is not a big deal but when I have to import many it would save me much time and frustration if I could just drag a stack of files to CorelDraw and have them all import automatically without pestering me further.
Thanks.
Simple test to try: open the file in Adobe Reader and then save it out. Try importing the Adobe saved file into DRAW.
As I stated, simply saving does not fix the problem but saving as "optimized" does. This is with Acrobat Pro (I don't know if the same options is available in Reader).
There is something in the meta data, or some other element that is not visible in the PDF that bombs CD.
The attached is saved out of Acrobat as an optimized PDF so I could strip out unneeded meta data.
Mike
Yes, my hope is someone from Corel will see this thread and fix CorelDraw so that it doesn't choose to abort a PDF import because of some extra or non-standard meta-data...
And let me set default import options for unattended imports.
I've included lots of details in my original post.
Magriite said: Yes, my hope is someone from Corel will see this thread and fix CorelDraw so that it doesn't choose to abort a PDF import because of some extra or non-standard meta-data... And let me set default import options for unattended imports. I've included lots of details in my original post. Thanks.
There is also, the probability that the error in the PDF files is coming from the application that generated them in the first place. Does that program have any possibility to set any options for generating the PDF file, and have you tried using those to make the generated file play nice