Need Help Canva Files Won't Open In Corel

[WildWestDesigns]

With a paid, commercial application such as Illustrator or CorelDRAW the cost of the app works as a barrier to the rank amateurs who just don't even want to know the difference between pixels and vectors.

Ai and Draw are dirt cheap, even more so now, their cost is a very low barrier to entry even in the CS days for the Master Suite (but I also come from an industry that the full version of 1 program goes for $15k-$20k for the full version and to upgrade x-1 is about the cost of the Master Suite, so yea, Adobe is cheap). Of course, that isn't going into those that sail the seven seas for them as well.

The problem that one also has is with software abstraction so much away from the user is that younger "professionals" do not have the knowledge that was actually expected of users in previous generations (good or bad, that's another topic) and that is only getting worse. Adobe isn't doing themselves any favors with the "skip the photo shoot" ad campaign either.

Now, in the 90s (early-mid 90s is when I started) that may have been true. Not so much anymore.

 

[Kemik]

Why can't you just send the canva pdf to print? Why use CorHell at all? I am taking Canva files straight into Onyx with no issues.
As a side note, if you take a vector file and open it up in AI6, not the cloud version and save it as a .svg file. It seems to up load back to canva and retain the vector attributes.

The majority of the Canva files I receive are not even the correct dimensions because they just open up any template they like and start designing thinking it will fit any shape they require, or they've added a cut line that the rip can't recognize, etc.

 

[Bobby H]

Ai and Draw are dirt cheap, even more so now

"Dirt cheap" is based on your own personal perspective. Casual/hobbyist users and office workers who have to dabble in graphic design tasks have a different point of view. Price comparisons with perpetual license software in the past is also a bit of an apples to oranges thing as well.

Many office workers and other amateurs gravitate to Canva for multiple reasons. It has a free version along with its paid, premium version. The app has a bunch of clip art and templates. It also has a decent collection of fonts. Non-pro users can bang out some graphics work using those pre-existing elements. The problem is the elements they're using are often a mixed bag of stuff that can cause time-wasting technical problems.

I think $60 per month for a full Creative Cloud subscription is a pretty good value. But most non-professional users are going to balk at a $720 per year (currently) subscription price. CorelDRAW is a little less than half the price, but the "suite" has only two applications. Affinity Designer is only $100 and Serif runs pricing specials on it from time to time. But the app doesn't have a lot of extra "goodies" (such as fonts, clip art, etc). It's easy to see why Canva became popular with anyone looking to do graphics tasks on a low budget (or for free).

Usually if someone is serious enough to pay hundreds of dollars per year for something like Adobe CC they're going to put at least some effort in learning how to create production-ready artwork with it. Granted, I'll still get customer provided art files made in Illustrator that have problems. But the technical issues are usually not as bad as those I see in Canva-generated PDFs.