Does anyone know how to avoid this warning popping up when I import certain CorelDraw files into another CorelDraw document?
Open the file and copy and paste the content should work.
Unfortunately that's not an option David.
Not to be one of those I told you so guys but many years ago there was a discussion on the possibility of this problem.
Because of the above I don't use styles so I don't have this down perfectly but I believe there was a method developed to remove styles. If that would help. Not sure it would be easier than just clicking and going on but searching here in this forum might help
The solution is cumbersome but quick.
1)Create a new "untitled" document with the styles you want.
2)Save it somewhere convenient.
3)Rename "untitled.cdr" to "untitled.zip"
4)Open "untitled.zip", open Styles, extract "document.cdss" somewhere.
5)Close and delete "untitled.zip"
6)Change "(target).cdr" to "(target).zip"
7)Open "(target).zip", open Styles, drag in previously extracted "document.cdss" file into folder and overwrite the one that is there.
8)Close "(target).zip" and rename back to "(target).cdr"
9)Open and Styles should be what you want.
Thank you Ruckstande, I've just tried it but the warning box still pops up when importing files that (in hindsight) have differing style sheets to the target file. I guess this may stop the box popping up with new files going forward but it won't solve the issue with importing existing files.
Thanks for the input though.
Are you importing files into the same drawing template each time?
Yes. The target file/template is consistent each month. We import other CDR files into this '4 page template' to create continuous pages. Each imported file is an individual advert.
I'm completely missing the reason that you can't open your template, save as naming the file for the current work, then open CDR files, then group, copy the new content then place that content into your working file.
I do this exact same thing with all my files as every job I do starts from a template.
Hi David, we are placing individual files into this template, in excess of 850 of them. I do open my template and name is a new page range each time. Opening each file and then copying and pasting is just too time consuming, hence why we import them. This issue isn’t anything more than a slight inconvenience but one I’d like to alleviate if I can. Hope that clarifies my work flow, happy to try and explain more if it helps with a solution.
I bet eliminating even 1 step is good news when working with 850 files.
I'm old so it maybe I'm having a senior moment or a (brain fart) as it's commonly known in my house.
You open the template, (a cdt file) or are your templates CDR files?
Do you have 850 templates or are there 850 files placed into a few templates?
Hi David, we have a .cdr file that acts as our master. This is opened then saved as another .cdr file. The files we import are just standard .cdr files. Clearly in the dark and distance past some of the styles have been changed/amended and saved with the files. The 850 or so files are not templates just .cdr files.
Ok if you're up to it we can do a test or two. If I used styles I'd already have an answer to this but we used to do about a dozen newsletters and multiple small ad booklets a month years ago and that was before styles were a thing in Draw. That was just after the internal combustion engine was invented.
Let's not screw up the process so, you may want to open one of you regular template files and save as a CorelDRAW template in a safe place on your local machine just for testing. It will cave with a CDT extension, filenameXXX.cdt, when you open them you're required to use save as to save your edits as a CDR file. Draw templates save all you created content as if it's a CDR file but they also allow you to save certain application and document defaults settings so when you open a template it eliminates the need for setting those particular defaults again, this will function even if you are using Draw in a factory installed configuration or a custom configuration.
Now before I make any recommendations about the 850 CDR files that you import, I need to know a bit about their content compared to your template.
Does the template share content that is contained in the imported CDR file?
What I mean is this, is the content from the imported file simply added to the template in its entirety?
Do you add some of the content of the imported file to the template but not others?
Do the CDR files that you import share the same page size and orientation as the template file?
Do you use embedded fonts in your templates?
Do you use embedded fonts in those imported 850 CDR files?