Corel Draw 8 vs 9 file format: CDRA?

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From: Frank Nospam
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 13:57

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My office's head graphics guy uses Draw 9 (Windows).
 I need a PDF of one of his files, but exports from
 his PC come out over 200kB per page ... too big for
 web use in my opinion.

I wanted to try outputting to PDFWriter on my PowerBook,
 so I asked him to Save As... Draw 8 format. He sent me
 the file and Draw 8 LE refuses to open it. Neither could
 Fireworks 3, Graphic Converter 4, or various older apps.

Then I checked it with a hex editor. The few Draw 8 files
 that I've created all start with the following sequence:
 RIFF [4 mystery bytes] CDR8 vrsn

Whereas the file he sent me starts like this:
 RIFF [4 mystery bytes] CDRA vrsn

I'm guessing that CDRA means this is NOT a Draw 8 file,
 but I'd appreciate confirmation. Also, Draw 9 is able to
 Save As... Draw 8 format in a Mac compatible way, right?

-F.

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From: Frank Nospam <yahoo_com@francis.uy>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.corel,comp.sys.mac.graphics,corel.graphic_apps.draw-mac,corel.graphic_apps.draw9
Subject: Corel Draw 8 vs 9 file format: CDRA?
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 09:57:07 -0400
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