Saharagirl Posted March 17, 2019 Share Posted March 17, 2019 Sorry - probably a very basic question but I have recently been sent artwork for an advert in .odg format. It appears this format is not recognised in Affinity Publisher beta or in Affinity Designer - and it will not allow me to import the contents of the file to work on. I can open the file in Word and import it, but I suspect Word is altering the appearance of the original graphic. Is there any way round this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron P. Posted March 17, 2019 Share Posted March 17, 2019 Welcome @Saharagirl, That's an OpenOffice drawing file. The only thing I can suggest is to download and install OpenOffice. It's free, and IMHO, about as powerful as MS Office. Apache OpenOffice I use OpenOffice, and in Draw, you're provided with several options to export, anything from BMP to PDF. So you could open it in OpenOffice Draw then export it to a format that will work for you. Saharagirl 1 Quote Affinity Photo 2.4..; Affinity Designer 2.4..; Affinity Publisher 2.4..; Affinity2 Beta versions. Affinity Photo,Designer 1.10.6.1605 Win10 Home Version:21H2, Build: 19044.1766: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5820K CPU @ 3.30GHz, 3301 Mhz, 6 Core(s), 12 Logical Processor(s);32GB Ram, Nvidia GTX 3070, 3-Internal HDD (1 Crucial MX5000 1TB, 1-Crucial MX5000 500GB, 1-WD 1 TB), 4 External HDD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted March 17, 2019 Share Posted March 17, 2019 I would go with PDF Saharagirl 1 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saharagirl Posted March 17, 2019 Author Share Posted March 17, 2019 Thanks for the recommendations. Adobe refused to open it, so I've downloaded OpenOffice and saved as a .jpg and can now edit it as I need. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted March 17, 2019 Share Posted March 17, 2019 10 minutes ago, Saharagirl said: Thanks for the recommendations. Adobe refused to open it, so I've downloaded OpenOffice and saved as a .jpg and can now edit it as I need. That's great. I actually meant export to PDF from Open Office, PDF gives good compatibility and edit-ability. Saharagirl 1 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted March 17, 2019 Share Posted March 17, 2019 19 minutes ago, firstdefence said: PDF gives good compatibility and edit-ability Most importantly, PDF will retain vectors wherever possible. In a JPEG, everything will be rasterized. Saharagirl 1 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saharagirl Posted March 17, 2019 Author Share Posted March 17, 2019 Thanks all - that works fine. firstdefence and Alfred 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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