Opening Publisher and Corel Draw files in InDesign

[petere54]

Hi, I am new to forums and groups, so excuse me if I make errors. I
have decided to trial InDesign ver 2 before making a committment to go
CS3 Premium, but most of our graphics files are either in Publisher
(2003) or Corel Draw (ver 9). Does anyone know of a way to convert,
import, open, transfer, these files so that we can save them as
InDesign files. We realise there may be some tidying up to do, but at
least if we can get the majority of the file opened it will save us
having to redo ALL of the files. None of them are complicated files.
My wife is a teacher and they are just worksheets for students and
teachers to work with.
Any assistance would be appreciated.
Peter

 

[Mary Sauer]

It would occur to me if you still have Publisher and CorelDraw then all you
really need to do is some copy/paste operations if you need to reconstruct a
file in InDesign. I know nothing about InDesign but I assume it isn't a draw
program or if it has draw tools it can't come close to achieving what CorelDraw
can achieve when creating original art.

 

[Odysseus]

Hi, I am new to forums and groups, so excuse me if I make errors. I
have decided to trial InDesign ver 2 before making a committment to go
CS3 Premium, but most of our graphics files are either in Publisher
(2003) or Corel Draw (ver 9). Does anyone know of a way to convert,
import, open, transfer, these files so that we can save them as
InDesign files.

Not directly, in an editable form. But you can import PDFs (or EPS
graphics) into InDesign, and then 'patch over' them or just use them as
guides for rebuilding a layout. As Mary suggested, copy-and-paste might
be the best route for many elements. InDesign has only very basic
drawing capabilities, but simple vector artwork might come across OK in
the clipboard as WMF or EMF. I expect that anything you can save out of
Publisher in Word or RTF format can be placed in an InD text container.
Raster images should probably be freshly imported from their original
format (TIFF, BMP, JPEG, or whatever); complex pieces of CorelDraw!
artwork should be exported as PDF, EPS, or AI and then imported into InD
as 'pictures'.