I've had 5 clients this week tell me that they cannot open the .pdf's I have created in Corel Draw. I have tried the Save As function, the Export Function, and the Publish to PDF function, and there doesn't seem to be a difference for the clients.
Other posts have suggested using a different program to open the files, but I have not control over what a client uses to open them.
I am running Corel Draw 2017 ver. 19.1.0.419, on Windows 10 Pro ver. 1709
I can't post the .pdf's, since they're confidential. My apologies. But I can have a look at the fonts being embedded.
That's strange, but maybe your clients tried to open the PDF using the e-mail client or browser and something is wrong. Also, sometimes Acrobat Reader display the PDF different than AdobeAcrobat (that's not relative to files made with CorelDRAW)
Have you tried using PDF/X-3 using compatibility with Acrobat 8.0?
No, but that's worth a shot
I've never had a CorelDRAW PDF that Acrobat Reader of Acrobat itself could not open. I've seen font and transparency issues but they've all opened.
SOLVED:The issue was simple: Coreldraw was telling me that my .pdf was done, but it wasn't. I was attempted to send files that were not yet complete.
I would hit "export to .pdf", the dialog window would close and I'd get a little sound fx on my computer ("da ding!"), then I'd hit "attach" in my email program. But unfortunately the .pdf wasn't done yet, and Outlook was sending the file exactly as it existed the moment I hit "attach".
COREL: Please add a PROGRESS BAR to the export function, or at least don't play the little sound until it's actually done!