I've exported drawings to wmf and then opened them in OpenOffice Draw with no apparant information loss.
Chris Am Mittwoch, 26. November 2003 05:56 schrieb Terry Hancock: > 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. > > [...] > > Why not grab a spare machine, throw an older distro at it and install PP > > from some leftover archive on a forgotten ftp server. > > 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). > > Cheers, > Terry > > -- > Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com ) > Anansi Spaceworks http://www.anansispaceworks.com -- Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler Bodenstedtstr. 13 D-30173 Hannover -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]