I bought a version 8 suite back about 9 years ago and I use it every 2-4 years. I try to print out a catalog of pictures and sketches of parts I make. However, taking it to kinko's for printing, they cannot load a .cdr file to print from.
How do I convert this effectively? When I try to go to .pdf, the spacing and fonts get messed up. Is there a good conversion process or program to use? It prints fine from my printer, but even saving as a printer file doesn't seem to work right.
Please help, I guess in a perfect world I would just do this in MSWord since I really don't need corel, but I have a 50 page document ready to go, if only I could transfer it
Thanks
Jon
Not quite sure what you mean by go to Pdf.
One thing you may try is to download a free PDF print driver. This allows you to "print to a PDF" using almost any printer driver. You open your CDR and then select print as if you were going to print. Your printer software will open and you select the PDF printer. instead of you default.. Once you select print you will be asked for a location to save to. A PDF file is created. I use doPDF on occasioin. It seems to work most of the time. Google it. Hope it helps.
Jack
I'm not recalling what direct PDF capabilities CorelDRAW 8 had either. (That was the first version of CorelDRAW I ever used; somehow I expect the direct to PDF capabilities were not native to CorelDRAW at that time.) PDF definitely can provide an accurate representation of most artwork and act as a high-functioning common format for you to provide jobs to your print service; so if you're getting "wrong spacing and fonts" I would expect something is majorly amiss about whatever "to PDF" system is currently being used.
The open-source and PDF print driver I use and recommend is PDF Creator., although from CorelDRAW I'm using X4's direct to PDF capabilities and not PDF Creator.
-Alan
The weird thing is, that if I either save as, or use the PDF Creator program for each individual page, it works fine, however when I go in and make combine each page to end up with a single file that has 49 pages in it, although the graphics, layout and pictures all look fine on screen, when I open the .pdf file, only about half the page actually shows up.
Is this a memory issue? I have 2 gigs of ram and the entire 49 page document is less than 65 mb. I know last time I took this to the Fedex office people, they complained that I had saved each page seperately and not as one file, making it more cumbersome for them to copy and collate the pages. Looks like I will just let them complain again I guess.