Can Draw files be opened in Photo Paint to add some effects and then be reopened in Draw? Can effects such as shading be done with pantone colors in Photo Paint? Thanks - Scotty
Yes.No problem at all.
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Thanks for your response. I was pretty sure I would be able to until I attempted to open a recently closed X4 cdr file in Photo Paint and was presented with a messge 'Invalid file format'. I opened and closed the cdr file again and tried to open it several more times in Photo Paint. Same thing happened. Any suggestions?
Never mind. Before sending this message off I opened another cdr file and that one worked ok. So I added some minor shading to it. I was hoping I could save it in a way that I could reopen it in Draw and continue on with vector work. I found that I could not save it in anything but a raster format and once saved I could not reopen it in Draw but could only import it. Is it possible to start in vector, tweek in Photo Paint and then go back to Draw with all pages, layers, and objects intact?
- Scotty
see attached.
I make in draw, tweak in pp through Draw link to PP. then make duotone.
scottyjr:Is it possible to start in vector, tweek in Photo Paint and then go back to Draw with all pages, layers, and objects intact?
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When shifting back and forth a coreldraw file with Photo-Paint, the second you open the coreldraw file in photo-paint it becomes raster - inside photo-paint. And then if you save the file in photo-paint, it will be saved by photo-paint as a raster, cpt, file. That is nothing wrong. The original coreldraw file you imported of course is not damaged, it is still untouched. Its the imported "copy" of it that has become a raster/bitmap. So you can still work your coreldraw/vector file as vector in coreldraw. If you first import a cdr file into pp, save as cpt file, and then open the cpt file in CorelDRAW, yes its a raster image, because you open a cpt/raster file.
If you import a raster, cpt, file in coreldraw, and add vector objects to the illustration inside coreldraw, and then save the mixed media illustration in CorelDARW, you will have a file with both raster/bitmap elemenst and vector elements. In Photo-Paint it all becomes raster/bitmap. Period.
Settle with one file format as your final file format. And import to the program of that file format. When I for example worked this way, see my illustration here as an example: http:// coreldraw.com/photos/stefanlindblad/picture39376.aspx (see attached also), I made adjustments to the vector elements inside coreldraw, saved, and imported the coreldraw file into photo-paint. In this particular illustration, the "old" vector elements are the streets.
I have met such a problem also, then I found that there were objects on a non-printable layer in the cdr, that was the cause of the error message.
Jeff,
Can you explain how you do a Draw link to PP?
Jack
Hi J,
What I meant was Draw's "round trip workflow" that allows one to send a bitmap to PP through the "Edit Bitmap" function found on Draw's property bar when a bitmap is selected.
After saving image in PP, the changed bitmap appears in Draw automatically.
Jack Ross:Can you explain how you do a Draw link to PP?
Thanks Jeff. That I understand. I can be dense sometimes (or much of the time).
Jack Ross:Thanks Jeff. That I understand. I can be dense sometimes (or much of the time).
Well, it's a good time to clarify this since I should be scolded by writing the work "link" in this case.
There are 2 other ways to get a CPT into DRAW: Pasting from X3 PP to Draw X4 creates OLE (and also pasting special from PP X4 to Draw X4) , and by linking to an external file on disk.
I don't use either of these.
I like to embed my bitmaps right inside Draw. Then launch into PP. OLE edits open PP within Draw, which to me is much less attractive.
Starting with X3, pasting from PP to corresponding Draw version does not paste OLE like ver 12 down. I love it!