Greetings Forum,
I've got an SVG file, it was generated by a program which generates such things, its completely valid according to the W3C validator. If I try to open it or import it into Corel X5, X5 crashes. I send off a WER to Corel hopefully (it says it sends it but one never knows for sure.)
My system Win XP (32 bit, SP3), 3.5GB of RAM, 500+GB free hard drive space
Corel X5 - I am pretty sure it has SP2 applied it calls it self 10.2.0.661 in the About menu.
Its annoying that it can't read this file, the documentation claims svg support.
--Chuck
Good question. I'm having the same problem you are. I've tried open and import, and both close CorelDraw without warning.
I've also tried opening the files in Inkscape, and they're fine there. Exporting to another format converts a lot of stuff to bitmap, however, and makes the files a mess to edit in CorelDraw. In some cases I've been forced to completely redraw the file, not fun and totally inefficient.
Here's an example file: http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=29699 It's nothing special, but it was the last one I wrestled with.
silvershoes said: Here's an example file: http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=29699 It's nothing special, but it was the last one I wrestled with.
This one I dragged & dropped on to an X5 page... no problem. group of 7 objects, all layer locked. Right mouse click on them after ungrouping and choose "Unlock object"
the 'dd'
Dragged and dropped from where?
"Open" makes CorelDraw abort. "Import" makes CorelDraw abort. But I'm willing to try drag and drop.
Thanks!
Edit:
I tried drag and drop from the file menu, and CorelDraw aborted. So then I tried drag and drop from CorelConnect and got an error from Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library that said "Runtime Error! Program ...\Corel\CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5\Programs\CorelDRW.exe abnormal program termination."
silvershoes said:Dragged and dropped from where?
I had to check this out so I went to the link referenced earlier and downloaded the file which actually just opened in firefox as an image. So I went to file menu, saved it as 29699-kleanSweep.svg on my desktop.
Opened draw x5 & started a new blank document. Un-maximized the Draw window so I could see the svg on my desktop and dragged it onto the CorelDraw page.
Worked like a charm and shows as a group of 7 objects
[Edit]
For what it's worth, I'm on a 64-bit Vista box. And I just tried both Import and Open, both worked fine.
just to add to this conversation i also downloaded the svg file and tried to open it in X4. i got the same error messages as posted here and CorelDRAW crashed. this happened for opening, importing and dragging/dropping. only crashes.
was able to open the file in Illustrator then resaved with new name as an uncompressed svg. after this i was able to successfully open the file in CorelDRAW.
ghi
So I've put up the file that is at issue you can look at it in a browser by visiting:
http://robotics.mcmanis.com/foo.svg
I was wondering if it was a line termination issue (the file was generated on a Linux system) so I converted it to DOS line endings and its available as
http://robotics.mcmanis.com/foo2.svg
They display fine in a browser, if I try to open them or import them into X5 then X5 crashes and sends off an error report.
Thanks y'all for at least trying.
So Andrew could open it using Vista, but the original poster uses WinXP and so do I. I'm not real clear on why that should make a difference with CorelDraw, but maybe it's a clue for someone.
I'll try this on Chuck's file next, but it happens to me fairly often and there's no real way to predict. Some files are fine, and some do this. :(