Hello, I encountered a strange bug when designing labels for work.
The label I designed is shown in CorelDRAW perfectly normal, but when I turn the page it is on into a PDF-document for my coworkers to use, the label is suddenly suffering an odd distortion. What could cause this?
(Sorry about the cursor) on the left is what Corel shows me, on the right is how this part looks in the resulting PDF. We speculated at work that some kind of invisible paragraph formatting may be confusing Corel when creating the PDF, but the (graphical) curved text itself claims that's actually impossible -the options are all greyed out anyway.
How can I solve this, besides starting from scratch and hoping this bug won't show up again?
Guess text on paths may be a little tricky to translate to PDF format with 100% accuracy.The best way to work around it would probably be to save your work, convert all text to curves and make sure everything looks correct, then export/publish to PDF.Remember that converting to curves is an irreversible action so if you want to be able to edit text later, save before you convert.
Thank you for your answer, I tried this out immediately. Sadly, it didn't work: Corel simply removed the curvature from the text when I selected the text and chose "convert to curves".
Quite ironically, really. A command to make curves is instead removing them.
Dalo said:Corel simply removed the curvature from the text when I selected the text and chose "convert to curves"
Strange.Do you mind sharing your file, or at least the parts where this problem occurs?Upload here (must zip the cdr first) or to some file sharing site.
Sharing the file is sadly out of the question, I was alreardy skirting our IT-security by making carefully cropped screenshots.
Trying to turn text into curves I've given up on, since simply using Text -> Attach to Line works fairly well for attaching text to curves. Apart from stuff like exact positioning often being a bit wonky, see above.
I still do not know why some objects, like circles, are "invalid" for attaching text to the curvature. Anyway, since the objects I needed to attach text to where formed using Bézier-lines, it still worked out in the end.
Sounds like there is something in your file that makes Draw behave in an unexpected way.Would it be possible to copy the parts where these problems occur to a new file, maybe change the text if it is secret, and then upload so we can have a look at it?
My best guess is that the text got scrounged up at the middle line of the object, which is where I initially added the curved text. The mess was just not visible enuogh in the original file, and something inside the PDF-processing caused the error to magnify.
It seems in the future I have to be careful to leave enough space on the line for a curved text line.