Sunday, April 06, 2014

LibreOffice CorelDraw import filter - support of version x7 landed

Corel released CorelDraw x7 on 27 March 2014. We had some time to look at the changes in file-format and we adapted libcdr to be able to open it. The changes landed this week in LibreOffice code, in master and libreoffice-4-2 branch. That means that support will be available in the next 4.2.x release.

It is good to note that while introspecting the files we discovered a flaw in CorelDraw x7 that makes files using the Pantone palette number 30 pretty unusable for CorelDraw users. We worked it around and the files are opening just fine in LibreOffice. Take this as a first contribution by the new Document Liberation Project.