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?
Hrm, it only seems to happen with big files. This is a file with a big arial S in the middle of the page, nothing else. Original file size 400KB. I imported a large poster (60MB), then deleted it and saved it again. The file is now 38.5MB, but is only just a big S in the middle of the page. I uploaded the file to our distributor website since it's 38MB: http://www.comerdistributing.com/files/bigS.zip (I renamed the .cdr to .zip so that the webserver would serve it)
It looks like the font you used for the "S" is larger than that font wants to go, the letter by it self is 38.4 mb. at 26.39" tall and converting it to curves didn't help much. A lot of font don't liked to be used outside of what they were made for and the Open Face Arial you used l think is that way.I don't use the Open Face, they seem to do dum things sometimes, I stick with the TTF fonts.
Nope. the file originally was 400kb, with the big S as is.
Select the S, do a save-as selected only. The file will be very small
http://graphics-unleashed.unleash.com/2010/07/delete-extra-stuff-to-speed-up.html