On 25. November 2003 at 10:56PM -0600, Terry Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 November 2003 03:36 pm, Andreas von Heydwolff > wrote: > > There once was a free Linux port of PhotoPaint 9 from Corel > > running on Corel Wine. It was buggy but I had it running > > quite nicely on my potato system two years ago. I think it > > had import filters for CDR. [...] > Seeing as PhotoPaint is a *bitmap* program, this would not > truly import the CDR data, but *render* or *rastorize* it. > Which is probably not what the original poster wanted. It > would be far better to use a tool which can actually convert > *vector-to-vector*. > > Sketch does this with CMX files, but I don't really understand > the relationship between CMX and CDR (I stopped using Corel > Draw around version 3.0, and there was no CMX format then). I > would *guess*, though, that there is some intermediate version > of Corel Draw which can read and write both formats. So I'm > suggesting: > > 1) Use Corel Draw to convert CDR -> CMX > 2) Use Sketch to convert CMX -> sk > > (I think you can probably also get SVG out with Sketch, though > I'd have to check that -- it can certainly import SVG, but I'm > less sure about exporting). I'm actually having problems importing SVG with Sketch (I'm missing a Suggests depends which I'm too lazy to install). But I'm using Sketch as an EPS (PostScript) to SVG converter. And, since CorelDraw supports exporting to EPS , I would change your step (1) to: 1) Use Corel Draw to convert CDR -> PS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]