LO and Coreldraw

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#1

I had a number of files in CorelDraw format (.cdr) which I had opened and
edited in LO. I then saved these as .odg files. This worked fine until I
installed LO 4.2. Since then I have not been able to open either CorelDraw
files nor LO files converted from CorelDraw. LO tries to open the file and
then gives me the error message that "LO has stopped working" and then
shuts down. Can anyone tell me if this is a bug in 4.2 or if 4.2 has
specifically been designed not to work with these files.

Thanks,

Paddy

#2

Hi :slight_smile:
I think it's probably best to
1. post a bug-report about it and leave it to QA (bug squad) to triage and
2. revert your own system to 4.1.4 or something or install the more
stable-branch alongside the feature-rich branch.

It might take us a while before we respond to something like this on
this mailing-list but it was kind of you to try us first.
Thanks and regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#3

Pat,

I had a number of files in CorelDraw format (.cdr) which I had opened and
edited in LO. I then saved these as .odg files. This worked fine until I
installed LO 4.2. Since then I have not been able to open either CorelDraw
files nor LO files converted from CorelDraw. LO tries to open the file and
then gives me the error message that "LO has stopped working" and then
shuts down. Can anyone tell me if this is a bug in 4.2 or if 4.2 has
specifically been designed not to work with these files.

Remove LO 4.2 and go back to a previous version. You're not on Windows
or Mac by any chance ? There appears to be an issue with Draw, at least
on Windows, and possibly on Mac (to be confirmed).

Alex

#4

Pat,

I had a number of files in CorelDraw format (.cdr) which I had opened and
edited in LO. I then saved these as .odg files. This worked fine until I
installed LO 4.2. Since then I have not been able to open either CorelDraw
files nor LO files converted from CorelDraw. LO tries to open the file and
then gives me the error message that "LO has stopped working" and then
shuts down. Can anyone tell me if this is a bug in 4.2 or if 4.2 has
specifically been designed not to work with these files.

Remove LO 4.2 and go back to a previous version. You're not on Windows
or Mac by any chance ? There appears to be an issue with Draw, at least
on Windows, and possibly on Mac (to be confirmed).

Alex

#5

Maybe you should try converting the Corel Draw [which version?] files to the ".svg" format that Inkscape and other use. Maybe LO 4.2 can open them. I am slowly converting my Corel Draw 11 files to .svg, since I use Ubuntu and Inkscape now. Have to open up an older laptop to run Corel Draw 11 and Inkscape [Win7].

Yes, revert back to 4.1.4, since 4.2.0 is the first of the line and may have a lot of bugs in it, or at least till 4.2.4 comes out.

#6

Hi Paddy,

Pat Brown schrieb:

I had a number of files in CorelDraw format (.cdr) which I had opened and
edited in LO. I then saved these as .odg files. This worked fine until I
installed LO 4.2. Since then I have not been able to open either CorelDraw
files nor LO files converted from CorelDraw. LO tries to open the file and
then gives me the error message that "LO has stopped working" and then
shuts down. Can anyone tell me if this is a bug in 4.2 or if 4.2 has
specifically been designed not to work with these files.

There might be two errors mixed. I can open a .cdr file, if I use file > open, but not via Insert > Image.

A crash with Draw have been reported several times, but it is not totally clear, in what environments it crashes.

I suggest to go back to version 4.1 till the crash problem is fixed.

Kind regards
Regina