Hello everybody, What I just discovered is that the recent version of Corel Draw (v. 9.0) alows creation of Adobe Acrobat pdf files as an export function. The cost of upgrading to Corel 9.0 Graphics Suite is just US$199, and you can buy a qualifying package for upgrade for peanuts (Corel Office / Corel WP Office v. 6-7-8). There is also a free filter for Corel 9.0 that allows creation of Macromedia Flash presentations (although with some constraints). So in the end you buy the whole Corel suite (incl. vector Corel Draw, raster Corel PhotoPaint, Corel Trace and many other useful utilities) with pdf and Flash export capabilities for less money than you would pay for Adobe Acrobat writer ($235) or Macromedia Flash ($280) alone! Something to think about. This is not a paid ad from Corel, rather my personal excitement which I got from spending my own money - and I think it's a good deal. I am not saying you will have the full flexibility of handling these "alien" formats within CorelDraw (you cannot edit them, you can only export to them). I tried exporting MapInfo maps to dxf, then converting it into Adobe Illustrator .ai file and importing back to Corel as vector layer. The straight dxf import did not result in anything for whatever reason. E.g. a technology very similar to exporting vector layers from ArcView to Corel Draw for final cartographic design. Gleb. Gleb Bylov GIS Analyst Centre for the Study of Commercial Activity (CSCA) Ryerson Polytechnic University Toronto, Ontario, Canada Web: http://www.csca.ryerson.ca ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
