I do beer signs for a living. Sometimes I like to import other coreldraw files into my current work to take designs off of them, such as a curve or a portion of text. I then delete the unused parts. The problem is that whenever I do this, it makes the save file huge!
You can test this. Open an empty coreldraw file. Drag a few .cdr's into it. Delete everything you imported. Save the empty file. It will be the size of all those .cdr's combined!
Is this a bug or something I can fix?
You could also drag this to your toolbar.
It takes the selected objects and creates a new document from them.
Thanks for solving this mystery guys, and for the solution to mitigate it. I never even knew about these "symbols", and this has been bugging me for a year lol
Is there a way to stop these symbols from ever being saved with a file? An option?
Man these symbols had leeched themselves onto tons of files. My disk space taken up by signs is going to be reduced by like 60% after I'm done Saving As - Selected Only. I can't thank you guys enough.