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
For sharing I abandoned anything but PDF, EPS for vectors. For raster I use JPG and TIF. All manufacturers I've used for the last 15 years support PDF.
I archive, RAW from my camera and as archive preoutput 16 BIT prophoto TIF files.
PDF is very good too, but mostly used for layouts. Sometimes it can help if *.ai does not work for some reason.
Thank you. However, I do not have any problem to complete the most common kinds of graphic design jobs.
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!