Publish to PDF is inactive

Thanks Sir but that did not work - I have renamed copies all over the shop!

The file has many 'curves' - it's a list of products where i used individual lines instead of a chart. I've always had trouble with it as I update it every year but eventually manage to get it on a disk for my printer - this year he wants to print off PDF but since managing to make a PDF of a previous version it is now refusing to let me do it again and I tried everything I know - copying and dragging onto 'working' pages but it won't even do that!

Could it be something to do with memory?

Jogs my memory that at the time the pdf wasn't an active file form unless you also had the appropriate PAID program from Adobe as well as Corel. This was way back before Corel or anyone acquired those rights but seems I remember they were anticipating it. I can save to pdf currently with 9 but I also have the current Adobe reader file on the computer. Might that be the problem? IF you're using xp I seem to recall there was a problem with visual basic at the time that made you have to download and upgrade although even then MS wasn't supporting the files any longer. You can still download VB but it's a nasty trip trying to make your way into the exact spot where they keep it on MS!!! I remember trying to get in there about 20 directions before I actually got a path that led to that old file. I assume it's still there although persistence is probably necessary to get to it - possibly more now that VB is even further in the past.

Also try exporting rather than saving a file format. I don't know why but things were a bit weird back then with the obvious done in a bit "crooked" ways with commands that aren't usual in programs today. Possibly I'm not actually saving but exporting and have simply forgotten it - I know I've got documents I've saved in several formats including pdf and the only program I have that does that is Corel. Keep in mind that once exported you won't be able to change them or edit them unless you also have a commercial copy of Adobe- it's why I keep dual formats. If editing becomes necessary, I open the Corel file and then "save" or export it to pdf and throw out the old pdf file...  

I'm no expert but I've been using CorelDraw since version 4 and Ventura Publisher since version 7 (?)..In any case, I do a lot of pdf's that originate with either CorelDraw or Ventura  or sometimes both, as many of the Ventura documents I generate have embedded cdr's in them.

I have never found "Publish to PDF" to be particularly useful or accurate. Instead I have several "PDF printers' installed. these are software utilities that function as virtual printers and the output is a pdf file.

My current favorite is CutePDF Writer...a free download, if I recall correctly. When I want to create a PDF file from a cdr, a Ventura doc, an internet site or almost anything that appears on-screen I simply send it to the pdf printer.

I have about three of these free utilities, as well as Adobe Distiller, and there have been many times when CutePDF Writer has breezed through a conversion that neither Adobe nor "Publish to PDF" were able to handle. Adobe in particular chokes on complex documents, long documents and documents that aren't "just so." Despite that, neither Adobe Acrobat  v.7 nor Acrobat Reader v.9 ever...and I mean never...have any trouble reading or displaying the output from CutePDF Writer accurately.