Dear Corel usersAfter Microsoft soon no longer updates Windows 10, I have switched to a new computer with Windows 11. Here I have come across a really annoying problem that I have spent a long time on: When I have a drawing with text added in CorelDRAW and export this file to EMF format and then paste this graphic into Word, then the figure scales! This didn't happen on my old computer with Windows 10 - with the same version of CorelDRAW! This scaling is unacceptable to me: A shape must be inserted into Word with the size it was created for. I should perhaps just mention that if there is no text in the figure, then it is fine, i.e. the figure is not scaled when inserted in Word.I have asked ChatGPT about possible solutions. It claims that with the transition from Windows 10 to Windows 11, Microsoft has gone from using GDI Classic to using GDI+ (Graphics Devise Interface Plus). ChatGPT suggested me some changes to the registry so that I could get CorelDRAW to keep using GDI Classic. Unfortunately, its proposal did not work. So right now I am left with the only option I can see: to select all the text objects in my drawing and turn them into Curves before exporting to EMF format. Then there will be no scaling of any kind. But it is something that makes my job quite a lot more difficult. When exporting to EPS and WMF formats in CorelDRAW, a dialog box pops up where you can choose to export text as Curves, but why don't Corel give this option with the EMF format? This is crucial now in Windows 11, when seen from my perspective. Maybe some users on this forum have a better solution to this problem? NB! I've been using CorelDRAW since 1998 (starting with CorelDRAW 8) to create graphics for my PDF documents and my websites, but lately Microsoft and Corel have been making life difficult for me. A few years ago, you could insert EPS files with graphics into Word. It gave an almost perfect reproduction after export of the Word document to PDF. Then this possibility was stopped for safety reasons by Microsoft. Then I went to the EMF format, which works OK for the most part. I hope that Corel will look into this problem and at least make a dialog box so that you can export text to Curves... Kind regards,Erik
I’ve seen this behavior on Windows 11 as well. It happens because Word now interprets EMF text differently through GDI+, which causes automatic scaling when fonts are embedded.
A workaround that keeps the text editable (so you don’t have to convert every label to curves) is this:
In CorelDRAW, select all text objects
Open Object Properties → Text → Paragraph/Text options
Disable any “Fit text to frame” or Auto-formatting that may involve scaling
Before exporting, convert the outline thickness to “Hairline” or a fixed width
Export to EMF using Windows Metafile format (not Enhanced w/ text effects)
This forces the export to treat the text as a fixed-size object, which prevents Word from re-scaling when inserted.
If your project allows an alternative format, SVG works much more consistently in Word on Windows 11 without resizing issues, and text remains searchable and scalable correctly.
So these are the cases that work reliably:
• EMF with all text formatted as plain, hairline-width objects → no scaling • EMF with text converted to curves → no scaling (your current solution) • SVG inserted in Word → no scaling and text stays editable