In CorelDraw 2016 a few years ago I was playing around with bezier curves. I took an image I shot of an old sixtie's style counter top and then started tracing over the distorted elipses using the bezier curve tool. I was closing all the curves.
I brought this .cdr file into inkscape and I see that all the shapes I drew in Coreldraw are not closed. Is there some way to fix this in Inkscape? If not maybe I can take the .cdr file and export it as some file type that Inkscape will know how to deal with the curves?
- if I export an .ai out of Coreldraw 2018 as a Illustrator 10 (old) file when I open it in Inkscape it is blank, no background photo, no curve shapes.
- if I export an .eps out of Coreldraw 2018 I can open in Inkscape and see the background and the shapes drawn correctly, with the loops closed. If I ungroup I can pick the shapes, but I can edit them. there are no nodes to pull around and change the shape. Is there a way to get to those nodes?
Thanks, you are correct. Double clicking the shape does reveal nodes that are very editable when I use it on an ungrouped .eps export from Corel. So that gets me going. thanks.
Beginners' Questions Importing a Coreldraw with beziers, not closed
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In CorelDraw 2016 a few years ago I was playing around with bezier curves. I took an image I shot of an old sixtie's style counter top and then started tracing over the distorted elipses using the bezier curve tool. I was closing all the curves.
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I brought this .cdr file into inkscape and I see that all the shapes I drew in Coreldraw are not closed. Is there some way to fix this in Inkscape? If not maybe I can take the .cdr file and export it as some file type that Inkscape will know how to deal with the curves?
And I did a little more experimenting:
- if I export an .ai out of Coreldraw 2018 as a Illustrator 10 (old) file when I open it in Inkscape it is blank, no background photo, no curve shapes.
- if I export an .eps out of Coreldraw 2018 I can open in Inkscape and see the background and the shapes drawn correctly, with the loops closed. If I ungroup I can pick the shapes, but I can edit them. there are no nodes to pull around and change the shape. Is there a way to get to those nodes?
Maybe the Node tool?
I'd take a couple minutes to go through the Tutorials in the Help menu.
Thanks, you are correct. Double clicking the shape does reveal nodes that are very editable when I use it on an ungrouped .eps export from Corel. So that gets me going. thanks.