Ron Crandall, co-founder and chief engineer for Markzware, explains:Īffinity Publisher flows text differently than QuarkXPress and InDesign. The conversion is fantastic, but there are some areas to which you should pay attention. Of course, if the font was not embedded, it could be also wrong on Acrobat or another PDF editor.As you saw in the video, QXPMarkz converts QuarkXPress to Affinity Publisher, with a click. If you want to prevent any changes on the text when import the PDF, you should convert text to curves on the PDF file, BEFORE to import to CorelDRAW. If the font is not embedded, CorelDRAW has no way to know how text should look, because there's not information about this. And also it's important to embed the fonts when creates the PDF. The text is split on words or lines on the PDF itself. QuarkXPress or Indesign allows to import the PDF a closed box non-editable That could be a nice option for CoreDRAW. I want to have the option of import the PDF 'as is', as a closed packaged, similar to EPS, that allows to import as 'editable' or 'encapsulated'. If you need to edit PDF you should use Acrobat, NitroPDF, Cute PDF, etc CorelDRAW will convert to their internal file format (same as illustrator or any other vector software). It's just as bad if importing as curves, by the way, and it's not confined to documents created in Word (which is such a crud program that, where possible, I refuse to acknowledge its existence :) )įirst of all: CorelDRAW is not a PDF viewer or PDF editor. At least the text stays the way it should. I'm finding that, in a situation like the one above, I'm better off converting their PDFs to jpg files and importing those into Corel. Seriously, working with PDF files in Corel is getting harder and harder. And no, I can't show you the documents here, they're highly confidential Didn't notice that the A3 had fallen apart on one side.

I loaded the A3, and loaded the two A4s onto, had a quick look and printed it. They had an A4, an A3 and an A4, to be made up into a double sided A3 brochure. I did a job the other day for the Government, they had done the original in Word and converted to a PDF. Why is it that, when importing a pdf file and electing to import text as text (not curves) the text imports in bits and pieces, rather than correct paragraphs? This has been a painful experience for a number of versions and while it may look okay, a closer look will show that some of the paragraph segments have moved text on top of text, or bits have been left out, and no way is it a complete text box, it's just some bits of Artistic Text arbitrarily plonked on the page.

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