I created a file in Corel Draw 13 on my computer and sent the design to my sister who also has Corel Draw 13. She cannot open the file and gets a message that the file "is not importable using the selected filters or this format is not supported." We can't figure out what is different between her program and mine. She is on Vista and I am using Windows XP, but this seems more to be a problem with the Corel Draw X3 program. Any suggestions on what to do to open the file?

To my knowledge, the file format hasn't changed between any version of CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3. I guess you've sent the file in a Zipped format so that you can make sure there are no problems with the transmission?

Gérard 

Hmmm.....not a fix, but maybe you could try and save it as a CMX and send it again. See if that works. Just an idea. Can't imagine why the CDR won't open. I have taken X3 files from my Vista machine at work and edited them on my XP machine at home with no prob (and vise-versa).

Hope that helps!

Hi, I am new here and maybe this has nothing to do with your problem, but I was thinking that since "importing was mentioned" that maybe your sister was trying to import the file with the "A" tool highlighted and you may actually need to have the "Pick" tool highlighted instead. The other thing I thought of was she should just double click on the file name and let CorelDraw open it (instead of importing it). These may be too basic, but sometimes the obvious is overlooked.

Do you have ANY bitmaps within the file ? I've had that problem on three occasions and in each case a bitmap within the file had "magically" changed itself into a.eps format. Clicking on the image and converting back to a bitmap (using the same dpi / pixel resolution) and resaving the file has worked for me each time.

Ted

I know this an old thread, but I need the answer, too!  I created several files on my laptop, then burned them to a CD to take to the PC that is attached to our laser engraver.  The computer won't "read" the cdr files!  No pencil icon comes up, and after trying to "read" the CD for literally an hour......you have to reboot the system!  Please, don't tell me you can't copy files to a portable media....this is going to make our lives very difficult!  Thanks for any response to the problem.  I am going to keep reading, but have seen several threads with "issues" with X3 and file saves, and it is making me very sorry that I shelled out money for this program!

Lisa

That is a possibility, but DH just called me and said that it would not work on the PC but it did work on his laptop.  This really has me puzzled.  Guess it could be a glitch with the CD.  Glad to know that I should be able to design on my laptop and carry the files to the other computers...I was worried for a while there! 

 Lisa

BTW, I always getting CD-Rs from one customer, which I can't read in Win2000. But they reads perfectly in Win XP (on same PC with doubleboot system)...

That's interesting...It just dawned on me that the laptop that will read it is Vista, while both computers that won't are XP, however the CD was created on one with XP.  Not sure if it is related, but is definately something that might be cause for consideration.

Lisa

Hi this is cdr user with lil knowledge and lot interest. anyways, what i face is when I open my corel 11 file , an erro related to corel control something like crlctl.dll appears and the window gets close. I installed it many times but it could not be corrected. Also when i installed corel10, its readily started workin. Anybody there can help pls.

Hello Lisa

Have you tried to send the .cdr through mail or if it is a big file, throug www.yousendit.com

that way you can exclude the the cd problem

when you reinstalled yoy corel

did you remove the user files from your pc

because i had similar problem on corel 11.0, and it was resolved when i removed all user specific files (customization), and then corel started perfect again