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  • Pdf exported from CorelDraw, problem with characters spacing

    Hi CorelDraw experienced users!

    Can anyone explain why in some languages, while in Coreldraw the characters have always the correct spacing, in the pdf exported with the fonts active, the spacing is a mess? See capture bellow, the specific font is Arial…

  • Problem when importing PDF to CorelDraw

    Hello Everyone!

    I encounter a problem recently when importing PDF files into Corel Draw. These PDF files are exported from QGIS (maps) and it seems that every time I add them to Corel, there are some missing layers. This didn't happen to me before, so…

  • Importing pdf generates an error

    Hi yall,

    Using essentials 2021.  When I try to import a .pdf, i get this error  File explorer shows as a firefox pdf (if that matters) but properties show ,pdf.

    I'm new to CorelDraw !!!!  These pdf files are generated using KiCAD Plot function (if that…

  • Trouble importing PDFs from Canva since 7 February 2024

    PDFs created in Canva imported into CorelDraw perfectly until 7 Feb 2024. All PDFs created since then say the file is corrupt when trying to pull it in to Corel. The PDFs work fine in all other software I have tried and PDFs created before the specified…

  • PDF Import PNG Image Bug

    When I import PDF files with PNG images, the image is sometimes "cut up". What can I do against it? Does anyone else have this problem?

    System Windows 11, Corel Draw Standard 2021

  • Need to figure out best practices to get a smaller file when exporting to PDF

    I’m looking for help and guidance with creating reduced file size PDFs from CorelDraw (Standard 2020). I am trying to publish an adult coloring book and I am limited to a 20MB file size. I have 55 designs that are all black and white line drawings. The…

  • Is it insulting to point out the desired way to set up 3rd party files?

    I get a lot of 3rd party "print ready" pdf files that really aren't. We never print the pdf's directly, we always import to Corel and check sizes and set up for multiple prints as needed. Trouble is not many "degreed" designers know how to set up a pdf…

  • Font changes to Arial while importing PDF into Corel 2021

    Font changes to Arial while importing PDF into Corel 2021. The same PDF imports into Corel 2018 with the correct font. The PDF was created in Corel 2018 and even tried other PDFs...having the same result.

  • Help! Publish to PDF, but subject in PDF stays empty

    Help! My problem when I punish from Coreldraw to pdf is that the pdf properties show the keywords of the cdr file, but not the subject. Doesn't work in manual publish to pdf nor in macro:

    With ActiveDocument.PDFSettings
    .Subject = "These words don…

  • Can I set the PDF-title in a PDF published by CorelDraw? And why does the subject in PDF stay empty even though it is defined in pdfsettings?

    Strange thing: if I publish to pdf a .cdr file and then open the pdf and properties, the title shows the original .cdr extension. Through Acrobat Reader and most browsers this title with .cdr also ends up as the title of the Tab or Window. I don't think…

  • Converting a bunch of X5 cdrs to jpg or pdf

    I have over 6000 cdrs made using X5 under Win 10. The cdrs consist of jpg images and text with a few containing some Corel effects like transparency, they are covers of books we reprint. The insides of the books are jpgs stored Word files in the same…

  • New layer "0"

    Why when I import a PDF to CDR, it goes to a new layer "0" and not to "Layer 1" the default?

  • PDF images won´t show when opening program

    I got a PDF of a 14 m x 2.8 m canvas, the PDF looks as how it should but when I open it in Corel everything shows except for the images, I clock where the images should show but it only selects empty spaces, like the images are there but they don´t show…

  • Can one export multiple files pdf in CDR 2018?

    Or must it be done only one at a time?

  • I have a square shape pdf how can I when I import it change the square edges to rounded edges

    I have a square shape pdf picture document and I need to round the edges how can I do that 

  • Sending a PDF Vector file for printing (780mm x 780mm) getting cropped out.

    Hello everyone!

    So, I have sent 3 different files (Big SIze) for printing and one of these is causing lots of problems. I am exporting my work from Illustrator as PDF and sending it to the Printing Shop to be printed as a quite large Plotter (780mm x…

  • PRINTING TROUBLES

    Hello, 

    I'm fresh user of CorelCAD an I have urgent trouble with printing to PDF.

    If I want to print sheet in printing menu everything is visible, but after saving sheet to PDF you can see only things from the model. I have dimensions and some texts…

  • PDF import, major issues

    Hello everyone. I started having serious issues with PDF files opening recently. Corel 2019.

    If I drag the file now into corel or import in any other way, it wont open it at all, it would however open kind of a low res thumbnail of that file, not usable…

  • PDF opening issues

    Hello everyone. I started having serious issues with PDF files opening recently. Corel 2019.

    If I drag the file now into corel or import in any other way, it wont open it at all, it would however open kind of a low res thumbnail of that file, not usable…

  • Essentials and pdf files - advice pls

    I assume that Essentials can export multi-page pdf files - for example, for sending a brochure to an on-line print service...

    However, can anyone tell me if it can also IMPORT multi-page pdf files ?

    Thanks !

  • Best practices on optimizing Coreldraw files?

    I've used Coreldraw for 15 years now. But i became a business owner early this year. I've always enjoyed optimizing / simplifying Coreldraw files with the best knowledge i have, but now the needs are that much greater, for achiving and high volume works…

  • PDF exports of spot colors sperations are not correct

    When I do a print to PDF of separations of a Color Spot file, the PDF is not correct and leads to misbehaviours of my Riso printer.

    A little example of a drawing with 2 spot colors (Red and Blue), 2 vector shapes and 6 monochrome bitmaps in different…

  • Importing PDF

    I import complex vector based plans (created in programs like Vectorworks or other CAD programs) which either crash Corel 2017 or are extraordinarily slow to import and then quite impossible to work on due to semi-consistent freezing.  My IT contractors…

  • CorelDraw won't open any PDF files

    My CorelDraw 2020 is not importing PDF files. 

    You click import > it opens the explorer interface > you select the file you want to import and that's it. Nothing happens. No error message, no dialogue... nothing. Just the empty page. It's the same thing…

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