Editing .dpp files

[JNAZ]

I have recently come across some files edited in drawplus. Is there a way to import them into affinity so I can edit them there? Thank you.

[Alfred]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, @JNAZ.

The Affinity apps can't read any of Serif's legacy file formats, so you would need to export to PDF or SVG from DrawPlus. (The common file name with a number in parentheses in your screenshot suggests that those are duplicates, so you may have less conversion work to do than you thought.)

 

[JNAZ]

Thank you. I am the one who labeled them with the numbers in parenthesis. Also, I don't have drawplus so I can't export from that program. Any other suggestions?

[MEB]

Hi @JNAZ
Welcome to Affinity Forums
Unless someone do the conversion for you (I do not have DrawPlus) there's no other app able to open the proprietary dpp Drawplus files.

[Alfred]

If you only have a few of these files and you're happy to share them with me, send me a private message and I'll convert them for you.

[William Overington]

Is it worth trying to open them in Microsoft WordPad, there is a chance that the text part will be stored in plain text and so can be copied out.

It may not work, but is it worth a try?

William

 

[JNAZ]

Alfred. Depending on the time it takes to convert, it may take a while. I'm not positive, but there may be at least a hundred files. Thank you.

[Alfred]

6 minutes ago, JNAZ said:

Alfred. Depending on the time it takes to convert, it may take a while. I'm not positive, but there may be at least a hundred files. Thank you.

Well, why not go ahead and send me a message, and I'll see how I get on with four or five files in the first instance.

[Pšenda]

Just out of interest - the universal registration key for the legacy applications is available in the FAQ.

So wouldn't it be possible to provide the installation exe files?

[JNAZ]

I would love to see the .exe files for these software programs. Up till a year ago I kept all the disks in a filing cabinet. Thinking I would never need them again, I threw them away. I see now that was a big mistake.

[MEB]

@Pšenda
The universal registration key is, as far as I'm aware, a way to bypass the registration by phone or online for existing customers who may wish to re-activate register the app.
If @JNAZ is a Drawplus customer it's quite possible there's a way.

@JNAZ Have you tried contact Serif support directly via e-mail?

[Alfred]

30 minutes ago, Pšenda said:

Just out of interest - the universal registration key for the legacy applications is available in the FAQ.

 

30 minutes ago, Pšenda said:

So wouldn't it be possible to provide the installation exe files?

@MEB has indicated correctly that the registration key isn't relevant to the installation procedure:

22 minutes ago, MEB said:

The universal registration key is, as far as I'm aware, a way to bypass the registration by phone or online for existing customers who may wish to re-activate the app

Registration was essentially for marketing purposes, providing a way for Serif to gather customers' contact details so that their sales staff could try to persuade them to purchase additional products: purchased copies of the 'legacy' software products would start to nag the user if the software remained unregistered a month after installation. Use of the universal registration key prevents the user being pestered in this way by the installed software, but you need a product key to install it in the first place.

[Alfred]

38 minutes ago, JNAZ said:

I would love to see the .exe files for these software programs. Up till a year ago I kept all the disks in a filing cabinet. Thinking I would never need them again, I threw them away. I see now that was a big mistake.

Do you have a record of your product keys? If so, I can provide you with copies of the installer files that were freely available for download until Serif closed their CommunityPlus support site.