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CorelDRAW 2018 Is there a way to keep picture files external, keep them from being imbedded in CDR?

Is there a way to keep picture files external, keep them from being imbedded in CDR?

Diana Jordan over 5 years ago

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hywelharris over 5 years ago
Heres a few tips from me.

If you are intending to use linked images make damned sure you know where they are kept. If you break the link you cannot remake it

Never Ever save the file AFTER printing. Draw has a bad habit of embedding the files at print time. So save prior to printing and then Revert after. Saving to PDF is effectively printing too so same applies.

Don't try and mess with the on screen display of linked images, they will be poor and often show a weird unequal x and y dpi. Live with it

Don't attempt to use "Collect For Output", it wont work.

I have quite a few photo heavy portfolio files in which I exclusively use linked images, it works but I had to learn the hard way.
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Diana Jordan over 5 years ago in reply to hywelharris

Thank you for your tips. I've already learned the hard way on some of them. Seems like the program would have these issues resolved. Could have taken the brilliant softfware of Ventura and just incorporated it. Oh well.
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David Milisock over 5 years ago in reply to Diana Jordan

If your CDR fie is created and published to PDF correctly the resulting PDF at output will be very similar in size to what a Ventura file will be. Required resolution at print size is a standard and specific for output types. The only thing that can change that is the compression used for the images and objects in the PDF. User beware compression can adversely affect output quality.
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