Hi Phil (and Steve): >> many >> years ago, but am trying ubuntu with the run inside of windows option,
..there is an Ubuntu which runs inside of Windows??? Must be like running from CD/DVD, slow and buggy??? >> mainly because of coreldraw, ie using it at work etc. >> i have successfully installed corel 11 inside of linux, and as i also >> use a >> mac, its quite usefull, as its also the last revision to come out for >> apples. Here we're talking; I came too over from Wintendo with loads of CDR files, which I often have to use in a way or another.By far the best way (in my humble opinion) is to keep your old Win (XP/2k) partition alive, with Corel installed. And by knowing that there's nothing compared to CorelDraw in the number of formats it can import/export, you should progressively export all your CDR files to a wider accepted (standard) formats. By keeping CDR file format you're in a classical "vendor-lock-in" situation. An industry "standard format" would be either EPS or SVG (both with zillion? variants). Once converted from CDR, your designs can be used with a wider variety of applications, windows, mac or linux. Another option is using Uniconverter, a Linux command line converter (no GUI!!!) wich can convert the vectors from a CDR, but neither text blocks (paragraph/artistic text) nor bitmaps, and I don't think colors translate correctly. There may also be usable 3rd party commercial converters for Linux. Despite quite a lot of tentatives on running CorelDraw (v.8,9 and 11) in Wine (Win emulator for Linux) I have not had usable results. You're totally right asking about what this SVN is; it's not transparent to outsiders that it is referring to Subversion, a versioning system used by programmers (and translators like me). Good continuation using free software Sveinn ? Felli
