Grant Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 Hi, My subscription for Corel Draw is up for renewal in 5 days time and I really keen to move over to Affinity Designer but one thing is holding me back and its the .cdr file issue. I have a promotional clothing company and a clothing brand with all my designs in .cdr format. Most of these designs are also saved in .png format. If I move to Affinity Designer do I need to convert all my .cdr files to another format so that when these files are opened in Affinity Designer all my layers, artwork, fonts etc are intact? This is a major concern for me....any hep would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Grant Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Callum Posted February 13, 2018 Staff Share Posted February 13, 2018 Hi Grant, Welcome to the forums! You will need to convert your files to use them in Affinity I recommend converting them to PDF's or SVG's Thanks C Quote Please tag me using @ in your reply so I can be sure to respond ASAP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grant Posted February 13, 2018 Author Share Posted February 13, 2018 Wow, that's an awful lot of work to be done. I would have thought there would have been an easier way? Thanks for such a quick response" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Rostron Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 I had this problem a while back, though with only a small number of .cdr files. I found that for some objects .pdf worked best, and for others, .svg. However, between them I got what I wanted. John Quote Windows 10, Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Designer 1.10.5 and Publisher 1.10.5 (mainly Photo), now ex-Adobe CC CPU: AMD A6-3670. RAM: 16 GB DDR3 @ 666MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grant Posted February 13, 2018 Author Share Posted February 13, 2018 ok great thanks for the advice- appreciate it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petar Petrenko Posted February 14, 2018 Share Posted February 14, 2018 You can try this: https://www.zamzar.com/convert/cdr-to-pdf/ Quote All the latest releases of Designer, Photo and Publisher (retail and beta) on MacOS and Windows. 15” Dell Inspiron 7559 i7 ● Windows 10 x64 Pro ● Intel Core i7-6700HQ (3.50 GHz, 6M) ● 16 GB Dual Channel DDR3L 1600 MHz (8GBx2) ● NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4 GB GDDR5 ● 500 GB SSD + 1 TB HDD ● UHD (3840 x 2160) Truelife LED - Backlit Touch Display 32” LG 32UN650-W display ● 3840 x 2160 UHD, IPS, HDR10 ● Color Gamut: DCI-P3 95%, Color Calibrated ● 2 x HDMI, 1 x DisplayPort 13.3” MacBook Pro (2017) ● Ventura 13.6 ● Intel Core i7 (3.50 GHz Dual Core) ● 16 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3 ● Intel Iris Plus Graphics 650 1536 MB ● 500 GB SSD ● Retina Display (3360 x 2100) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grant Posted February 15, 2018 Author Share Posted February 15, 2018 Thanks Petar, I'll take a look at the link. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
000 Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 Here's another converter. Haven't tried it but it looks decent: http://blue-tail.com/coreldraw-file-batch-converter/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grant Posted March 2, 2018 Author Share Posted March 2, 2018 Hi, Thank you, I will look into this possible convertor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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