lightburn can work with SVG,PDF,DXF file but is does not work with CDR files and there are a lot of CDR files around is there anyway that lightburn could be made to work with CDR files it would save having to download then convert the CDR file to work in lightburn
Corel files - CDR - are proprietary format
I am uncertain if lightburn can/could/should use them
probably a license is needed John might be able to qualify the “why nots”
If you go to the help menu, there is an entry to set up the corel macro. You do need corel to use it.
I assumed the OP was referring to native compatibility with CDR format.
I normally download CDR file then convert them into PDF files to us with lightburn and a lot of free files are in CDR format it is just a pain to keep having to convert them before they can be used in lightburn
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Thought about that 2 seconds after I hit reply.
My bad.
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Please test this workflow and see if this behaves as you’d want it to.
If it doesn’t, please upvote the following and help us shape the feature that people want for this.
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You can use the free Inkscape to convert CDR to SVG, then you can import them into LB.
Note that Inkscape can be used as a command line tool, thus the conversion process can be very fast.
There are probably online converters as well.
As said, CorelDRAW! file format is proprietary (and binary) and reverse engineering it accurately and extensively, across all versions of the software, can be a nightmare. I don’t know if there are open source libraries doing it with a license permissive enough to be used in a closed source software.
(Obviously Inkscape have such library / code, but I don’t know its license.)
There been attempts in the past but all seem…
abandoned for obvious licensing issues
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