copy vector objects from coreldraw into Affitnity

[KineticDS]

Hi,

I am new to affinity Designer and Publisher. I have a Coreldraw 2020 file that has been used for creating a business card. I want to fully convert this into either Designer or Publisher for ongoing use.

The logos are created using individual vector objects. Refer attached screen shot of Coredraw layers and objects. How to I bring the vector objects into Affinity? and is it best to use Designer or Publisher for this situation?

thanks in advance

[Chris26]

As I understand things at thw moment there are issues with CDR importing into affinity.  There have been a couple of discussions about this and unless I am mistaken, it can not be done directly.  CDR like affinity extension is a proprietry format and is not easily accessible except to Adobe illustrator and a few others.  I am not totally familiar with the technical things on this subject, but becasue of my lack of knowedge n this area with corel draw, I would simply save/export your files into an SVG, PDF, and EPS and see what happens, affinity of course handles these files.  There are those who have extensive knowledge on these matters, I am only answering from off the top of my head - I hope you understand.

this might help:

 

[v_kyr]

You can usually use either app (Designer or Publisher) here, so use the one you prefer. - In order to exchange vector data between different vendor apps, there are several ways. One is to try the direct way over the system pasteboard (copy/paste), or to export/reimport in a vector file format shared/supported by both applications. - So you can ...

• Try copy/paste via the system pasteboard between apps
• Export from CDR as PDF and import/open then that PDF in Affinity
• Export from CDR as SVG and import/open then that SVG in Affinity

[John Rostron]

Many years ago, when I moved from Corel Draw X7 to Designer, I exported my Corel files as pdf and as svg. Neither gave optimal results in Designer, but a combination of the two gave me satisfactory results.

John

[KineticDS]

Thanks for all the advice. Standard copy and paste for the objects  seemed to work the best. I had to recreate all the text and reposition all elements.

The 3 grey elements which were various percentage standard CMYK black, the colour translated to a combination CMYK, it was essentially the same colour but easy enough to change.

One of the objects had a gradient fill, twhen this object came across appearance was correct but created an object for every element of gradient.  I don't know if it is possible to merge them. For this instance this is fine I shouldn't need to change it. Again colours match in appearance but appear different CMYK breakdown and I don't yet know how to create this shape and effect smoothly in AD? I haven't looked on forums or guides in much detail yet but  if anyone can direct me to other forums guides that would be useful.

[SebastianPA]

Is the support of cdr planned ? We have over 10k of cdr files and theres no time to export all of them one by one with checking for possible errors.