I have over 6000 cdrs made using X5 under Win 10. The cdrs consist of jpg images and text with a few containing some Corel effects like transparency, they are covers of books we reprint. The insides of the books are jpgs stored Word files in the same folder as the cover cdrs. I need to convert the covers to either pdfs or jpgs. So far, I've used the X5 file converter with little success. I can't get the JPG images of the covers to save in the original folder, they get dumped in the bottom of the subdirectory, and the converter goes after the Word jpgs and converts many, but not all, of them too.
I'm doing this because we want to make pdfs of our books and we want to include the covers. Adobe Acrobat won't read cdr files so I have to change the format without corrupting the text. Real Converter won't help because it can't raster the text properly and they claim they can't fix it.
Because we have so many files in subdirectories we would like to automate the task.
I would upgrade to a later version of Corel (I have home and Student and Essentials on other computers) but I've read here that they can't read X5 files after V11.
Can anyone help me?
Happy 2022!
Rob
Do you have Distiller? If so, a macro could be written to print to PDF.
Hi David, Thanks for your response. I have Acrobat Pro 9 with Distiller. But, the issue I have is that the pdf from CorelDraw has to be created by CorelDraw itself, other programs mess up the rastor. I've never used Distiller, will it use Corel to make the pdfs? Thanks, Rob
Distiller acts like a print driver producing a level 3 Postscript file, pick a press setting, print from draw or from Acrobat itself, with default setups Distiller will make a postscript and automatically create a PDF.
Try one and view the result in Acrobat not Draw.
Depending on the transparency it should work fine.
Thanks, I'll try to figure out how to use Distiller. One question though, will the macro I try to make "walk" through the many subdirectories saving the PDF of the CDR file by its CDR name? That is what I'm trying to do because Corel will directly save the file as a PDF by itself, but only one at a time. Cheers
Nik,
I understand your English very well. You asked if each CDR file was in its own subdirectory and, yes, it is in its own subdirectory. I want to put the new PDF made from the CDR file in the same subdirectory as the original file. I have over 6000 CDR files, each has its own subdirectory and I need to make a program or macro that will go from subdirectory to subdirectory making PDFs of the CDR files.
Also, you seem to be able to send messages from a different location than this thread. I don't know how to answer back in that location of your last message or to send attachments outside this thread. Rob