Help! Big PDF problems

[Quillbilly]

I have been a signwriter for over 30 yrs and with the advent of digital printing, I'm trying very hard to adjust. My clients are emailing PDF files that are beautiful, but I save them on my external hard drive and have tried to open and/or import them into CorelDraw X4 to edit them and they won't open. The error message says the file is corrupted. I know that the problem is on my side, because they open fine and are beautiful files. I feel like a fool when I have to call my clients for alternate files. What the Hell am I doing wrong?

 

[Custom_Grafx]

Heya,

Not doing anything wrong - it's just a fact that corel can't open PDFs which were saved with certain attributes when originally published in Illustrator/InDesign.

Something which may or may not work for you, is to save a PDF (from Acrobat) as an EPS - which you might be able to open in corel.

Many here will agree (and some will disagree), that it's best to possess all graphic applications ie Illustrator, Photoshop, Corel etc.

 

[J Hill Designs]

yep. whenever corel cant open a pdf, I open it with illy and save as eps 3.0

 

[signage]

The issue I see with this file is it was saved with 2 color profiles!

Also this file is mostly a raster image, the only vector is the white text stating responsibility abd tge owners name and copywrite.