1. What App Opens Cdr Files

Technical details of XCF files. GIMP supports the compressed XCF files, opening them as normal image files. XCF data is stored by a simple RLE algorithm which are supported by GIMP using gzip or bzip2. The XCF format is also a backward compatible file extension that supports all previous version files of GIMP, and may also be forward compatible in certain cases. Open CDR file Corel Draw. Save it as CGM file. It will save only vector graphics. It will not save bitmap graphics. Open CGM file in OpenOffice Impress. Copy to Open Office Draw and insert original JPG or another bitmap graphics. Save file as ODG And you can continue in Open Office Draw program.) Select all (CTRL+A) Export as SVG.

File extension	.cdr
Category	Image File
Description	CDR was a file format developed by the Corel Corporation and is used primarily for Vector graphic drawings. It is used as the default format from the Corel Draw application which was first developed in 1987 by Michael Bouillon and Pat Beirne who were tasked with developing a vector based illustration program that Corel could package with their desktop publishing solutions. In 2007 Microsoft took exception to the CDR format wrongly blaming it for some security vulnerabilities in it's Microsoft Office suite of products. They concluded that actually this was innacurate and developed a bunch of tools to allow users to import CDR files into MS Office 2003.
Actions	CDR to PDF - Convert file now View other image file formats
Technical Details	There is no publicly available CDR file format specification. It has however evolved over time from it's initial offering in January 1989 to the present day where it is a different beast to what was initially developed to include including support for color management and spot colors, and has a basic support for text.
Associated programs	Adobe Illustrator Adobe Reader Corel PaintShop Photo Pro Corel WordPerfect Office LibreOffice
Developed by	Corel Corporation
MIME type	application/cdr application/x-cdr image/cdr image/x-cdr
Useful links	More information on the Coral Draw Package Convert CDR file

I have a scanned image, and it's in Corel Draw (.cdr) format (~6mb). Is there a way to open it, or convert it to something that I can manage? I tried http://filespazz.com/ a few times, but it didn't work due to some timeout error.Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

Stefano Palazzo

What App Opens Cdr Files

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3 Answers

Another option is to try imagemagick convert utility,Imagemagic can be easily installed using software center or synaptic.

Since the document is scanned it should be a bitmap which imagemagick can handle, only the version of the .cdr would be a concern, you did not mention the version of the cdr file so you may just try imagemagick, at your terminal in the directory where the .cdr file is located, run the convert utility like this;

this will convert the .cdr image called image.cdr to a .png image called image.png file that you can easily use, probably vectorize by tracing in inkscape if you wish.

See the imagemagic documentation on the convert utility if more control over the output is needed. hope the output is satisfactory.

SabaconSabacon

Very simple and fast solution .cdr files could be open in libre office draw (actually it is default) Libre office draw has perfect save as for example to .png Than GIMP. Enjoy

Source.

In order to work with CDR images you need to install some delegates for ImageMagick. In order to convert CDR files you need to install uniconvertor for CDR delegate:

List of all delegates:

By default it outputs:

Then run:

Or with zoom cropping:

I convert to .png here, but you may choose your own output format.

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