Hello all,
I just recovered some old CD-Rs from the dust and they contains my old works done at least 20 years ago.
The file format start from cdr versione 3.0. Unfortunately I only have native cdr files a few PDFs.
Is there a way to open/convert them to current format? I don't mind converting the corel fonts.
TIA
tony
It seems really understandable. Usually any program can open any old version of its extension. I hope to not be deluded.
I drew a circular saw blade for a saw mill logo in version 5, a few years later they wanted reprints with changes and version 8 opened the files but required significant edits.
The original files were of little value, not totally useless but nearly.
In the old service bureau days it was common to have multiple machines running multiple versions of multiple different software applications to support clients who hadn't upgraded.
Today the requirement of print ready PDF for supplied files resolves the issue either with a usefull file or billable hours! My own work was handled by keeping old machines with select vversion of Draw running.
Sure. I used PDF since the 90s while providing to printer suppliers to avoid comptibility problems, keeping original files saved once. Just a little later FILMS for creating printing plates became directly the CTP but nothing changed for graphic designers. PDF started to be the format for exchange final graphic design files, leaving the RIP processing to the printing companies. Then it started digital printing much more usable and easy for improvised digital graphic designers.
I would say quite a bit changed for the graphic designer which is why opening from previous versions and saving back to previous versions became so problematic.
Newer versions of software support not only new features but support old features in an improved manner.
An example of these features would be improved control over custom spot pallette, support for open type and a three steps approach to N-color support in PDF, then transparency support in PDF and finally live N-color, live transparency and complex (incorrectly created) complex fills with transparency in True PDF output. NONE of these features are supported in older software and therefore it's in cases that use these features impossible to back save.
What changed for the designer is that (if the designer is capable) they can create using high end features like live transparency bit also requires the designer to pick the output provider carefully.