Corel Draw 8 vs 9 file format: CDRA?

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2 total messages Started by Frank Nospam Fri, 08 Jun 2001 13:57

#28

Author: 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.

Re: Corel Draw 8 vs 9 file format: CDRA?

#29

Author: Joerg Hausmann
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 17:57

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On Fri, 08 Jun 2001 09:57:07 -0400, Frank Nospam
<yahoo_com@francis.uy> wrote:


>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
> ...

Sorry, no help from me, but CD10 also writes "RIFFxxxxCDR8..." when
exporting to v8 ... Why don't you try to change the CDRA to CDR8 in
hex editor? Perhaps it works.

heizfrosch
-- 
"Walfische bestehen zu achtzig Prozent aus Lippenstift."

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