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One solution is to convert all text to curves (I forget the exact menu
picks in Corel), save the file to a different name (so you can later edit
the text in the original) and embed the Corel file with curves in your
document.
But it sounds risky to embed a proprietary format like CorelDraw in your
documents. A safer solution is to embed industry-standard formats (e.g.,
tiff, postscript). For drawings, you should export (or save) your CorelDraw
file to postscript. Then, embed the postscript file in your document. You
shouldn't lose any font information.
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From: Damien Braniff
Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 1998 5:28 AM
To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
Subject: CorelDraw
I have an irritating problem which I hope somebody can help with. We use
embedded CorelDraw graphics in some of our documents and they look and
print fine. However, when translating the lit, you open the drawing OK,
change the text and save. When you return to the document all the text
(well, usually all!) in the drawing has defaulted to a different font,
kerning lost etc. Has anyone come across this problem?
