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
Current versions of CorelDRAW won't open or import CorelDRAW CDR files made prior to version 6. For a long time (going back to the 1990's) various releases of CorelDRAW wouldn't open CDR files made prior to version 3. None of that makes any sense. It just seems like an arbitrary policy Corel chose to code into CorelDRAW.The main rival to CorelDRAW (on the professional end) is Adobe Illustrator. The current version of that application can open any prior version AI or EPS file going back to the late 1980's. The app can even save files down to very early version formats (such as version 3 and 8). CorelDRAW can't do that either.Inkscape can import CDR files made in early versions, such as version 3. But the import results are going to be very unpredictable. I don't know of any other applications off-hand that can import CDR files. Rival applications like Illustrator and Affinity Designer have no CDR import filters.
To me it's not can Adobe or CorelDRAW open and save back to old versions, it's can it be done with 100% accuracy?
If not it's of little value.
Same thing for import and export filters.
PDF is, technically, not supposed to be an edit-further format. That's coming from people at Adobe -y'know, the folks who invented that format?
As to the notion that there is no need to open a computer file 20 or 30 years old, I guess we just need to burn any books that were published when our parents were born? Is that the idea?
There should never ever be a "sell by" date for any computer files any of us creates. Many of us are all too aware that 10 or 20 years goes by pretty freaking fast. So the work files we create should be workable for freaking ever. I've had to dig out art files made in the 1990's recently more than a few times. So there most definitely is a purpose in place for keeping archive art files usable. The notion that a software company can flippantly decide that it will no longer support files from its own home-developed application after less than a generation of time is only extremely WRONG. It is a grade-F fail-only policy. It's anti-customer.
I get the whole Adobe is the big terrible corporate monopoly bad guy. But Corel is making worse anti-customer mistakes. How can I keep creating artwork in an application where I cannot depend on the files I create being safe? It's very clear from a long term archival perspective I will have far better luck using Adobe formats that the CDR standard.
If I was running the Corel company I would have it as a requirement that a current version of CorelDRAW could open ANY prior version CDR file going all the way back to version 1. Period. Full stop. Anything less SUCKS!
I've never had problems opening old files created in older versions in Corel Draw. I do not understand what kind of problems there could be. Corel Draw is really very complete, I've never had real problems working with it!
If you attempt to open or import a CDR file made prior to version 6 into any version of CorelDRAW released in the past several years you'll get hit with a dialog box containing a message along the lines of:"This file was last saved in version 5.1. Files from CorelDRAW 5 and earlier versions are no longer supported and cannot be opened or imported in CorelDRAW version 25.2"It's not a matter of the old CDR file opening with any technical problems. The application just refuses to try opening or importing the artwork at all. The only workable solution is having an older version of CorelDRAW running, likely on a still operational vintage PC, opening the old art files and saving them forward a few versions. But this is not the first time Corel has moved the goal posts on file version support. I'm suspicious they'll pull this stunt again, arbitrarily cutting off support to files made before version 10, and then maybe everything before version X3 and on and on.
Usually any old Corel Draw file can be opened by a newer version of Corel Draw. But I'm not using so old versions now. Best regards!
I believe 15 to 2024 can be opened by 2024, I'm betting that not all perfectly, especially the older versions.
Usually any old Corel Draw file can be opened by a newer version of Corel Draw. Of course, newer versions not always are made able to save the files to oldest previous versions. That's all for this concern.
No worries about this concern for me, please...
I don't know how many years you have been doing graphic design work. My experience doing the computer-based stuff goes back more than 30 years. It is most definitely NOT a good thing to see files from the past that you spent a lot of time and effort creating rendered useless.Again, it's worth pointing out Adobe Illustrator does not have this problem. I can open an AI or EPS file created in the early 1990's in the current version of Illustrator and not see any technical problems other that possible issues with fonts. And there are easy solutions to the font issues via font conversion software.
I do not understand about the problem, explanations as above. I think Corel Draw support is still avaiable for Corel Draw users. Thank you.
If you have CorelDRAW CDR files created in versions 5 or earlier you cannot open or import those files into any versions of CorelDRAW released over the past several years. Further, there is very little support at all of the CDR format in other applications outside of CorelDRAW. You cannot import CDR files into Adobe Illustrator or Affinity Designer. Inkscape is the only drawing application I know of off-hand that can import CDR files, but it is very flaky at doing so.
I started working on very old versions of Corel Draw, but I do not remember something like that!