Does Quark 7 import CorelDraw files?

[suzy wilson]

Hi,

We are currently using Ventura 10 for laying out and publishing manuals in house and I am keen to change to Quark 7 as Ventura is a bit flakey. However, we use CorelDraw 10 for our vector images and in Ventura you can just import these image files as Corel (.cdr) files. This means we don't have to bother with PDF or EPS conversion.

Does anyone know if there is a way of bringing in CorelDraw (.cdr) files into Quark 7 or if there is a plugin that allows this? If not, is there another way of bringing in CorelDraw files into Quark, and if so, how do I do it?

Thanks for your help!

Suz.

[PrintDriver]

No.
EPS files from Corel.

Quark 7 is flaky too.
But InDesign doesn't take .cdr files either.

Nothing except some sign softwares seem to import native .cdr files.

[suzy wilson]

Ok, thanks for the info :)

Have just tried to import an eps from CorelDraw 10 into Quark 7 and it didn't like the graduated fill very much. It displays it, but puts a black block of colour half way down the image! Does anyone know a way around this?

Also, if you PDF an image (in this case a CorelDraw file) then import it into Quark 7 and PDF the whole document (ie text and images) from Quark, does the image degrade more because it's been PDF'd again?

[PrintDriver]

I'd recommend the eps rather than a pdf when linking in Quark. Quark has a funny way of deciding what it is likely to not pdf at full resolution...

As for your gradient, do you have the high-res preview turned on? Not that it will matter much in Quark. The previews are always bad no matter what you do... Does it print (to a postscript printer)?

[suzy wilson]

Hi,

Yes, we were able to print it, so like you say, must just be the preview that's fooling us. We had trouble making a PDF from Quark of the graduated fill EPS file which we'd imported onto a page with some text, but it was fine with a simpler EPS - maybe it doesn't like graduated fills.

Cheers
Suzy

[jimking]

How did you create the pdf in Quark, did you distill a ps file to create a pdf? If not you should. They still make Ventura? Good grief, I think I used Ventura 15 years ago.:eek:

[Broacher]

EPS EPS EPS. Don't even think of any other route unless you're a glutton for prepress punishment.

[suzy wilson]

Yes, I hate Ventura too!! Be glad to see the back of it.:p

Thanks for all the advice.