Corel Draw 12 - Import Problems

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Import Problems

Chris (Hunt)

2006-05-12, 4:13 am

Hello, can anyone give me some advice about importing one multi-page
document into another. I thought if I went to the end of a document
created a new page and imported to it the imported document would come
in from that page. It doesn't it is imported over the existing pages.
The best way I've found so far is to import onto the first page. This
pushes all pages but the first to the back. However, the first page of
the imported file gets dumped onto the active layer of the first page of
the target document. So for example if I import an 80 page document into
an 80 page document I end up with 159 pages. It seems to be there is
some kind of bug with merging files.

Chris (Hunt)

2006-05-12, 7:00 pm

No problem here with No1 -
i make empty page in the end, make it active, import and it imports starting this page n+1 to 2n
so I end up with exactly double qty of pages

No2:
I checked VBA and I saw that Import command belongs to Layer object,
there is no import command at Document object level, so they
just didn't think about it. So it was back in all versions it seems

So concerning problem No2
if you really want to merge files, saving layers disposition,
then it must be programmed with VBA macro, which first runs original document
tagging every object with its layer name, then running a macro on target
document restoring layers (and creating if needed) from tags

"Chris (Hunt)" <thunderCUTCAPITALS@wisehat.com> wrote in message news:44641e92$1_1@cnews...
>
> Hello, can anyone give me some advice about importing one multi-page
> document into another. I thought if I went to the end of a document
> created a new page and imported to it the imported document would come
> in from that page. It doesn't it is imported over the existing pages.
> The best way I've found so far is to import onto the first page. This
> pushes all pages but the first to the back. However, the first page of
> the imported file gets dumped onto the active layer of the first page of
> the target document. So for example if I import an 80 page document into
> an 80 page document I end up with 159 pages. It seems to be there is
> some kind of bug with merging files.
>
> Chris (Hunt)
>

Chris (Hunt)

2006-05-12, 7:00 pm

Thanks Os,

Tagging every object sounds monstrous. Looks like no real thought has
been given to merging files and taking into account layers. CorelDraw
has a checkbox for maintaining layers but it doesn't work. I get
everything grouped and dumped on the active layer. I guess version X3 is
the same?

Chris

Os wrote:[color=darkred]
> No problem here with No1 -
> i make empty page in the end, make it active, import and it
> imports starting this page n+1 to 2n
> so I end up with exactly double qty of pages
>
> No2:
> I checked VBA and I saw that Import command belongs to Layer object,
> there is no import command at Document object level, so they
> just didn't think about it. So it was back in all versions it seems
>
> So concerning problem No2
> if you really want to merge files, saving layers disposition,
> then it must be programmed with VBA macro, which first runs
> original document
> tagging every object with its layer name, then running a macro on
> target
> document restoring layers (and creating if needed) from tags
>
> "Chris (Hunt)" <thunderCUTCAPITALS@wisehat.com
> <mailto:thunderCUTCAPITALS@wisehat.com>> wrote in message
> news:44641e92$1_1@cnews...
> page of
> into

2006-05-12, 7:00 pm

of course, :-(
you're obviously the first person who is merging files with multiple layers.
Anyway CorelDraw's support for layers is quite poor. I even had to write it in VBA to have keyboard shortcuts for simplest managing
of layers. Someday someone will write merging in VBA ;-)
by the way I've coded subfolders search as you pointed out, now it's very VERY cool, soon there'll be new ver

"Chris (Hunt)" <thunderCUTCAPITALS@wisehat.com> wrote in message news:4464adf4_3@cnews...
>
> Thanks Os,
>
> Tagging every object sounds monstrous. Looks like no real thought has been given to merging files and taking into account layers.
> CorelDraw has a checkbox for maintaining layers but it doesn't work. I get everything grouped and dumped on the active layer. I
> guess version X3 is the same?
>
> Chris
>
>
> Os wrote:
>
>

Ronny Axelsson

2006-05-15, 4:20 am

Chris wrote

> Looks like no real thought has been given to merging files and taking into account layers.

In addition, I would also like to be able to copy and paste entire pages between documents,
including all the page settings and layers.

--
/Ronny Axelsson

"Chris (Hunt)" <thunderCUTCAPITALS@wisehat.com> skrev i meddelandet news:4464adf4_3@cnews...
>
> Thanks Os,
>
> Tagging every object sounds monstrous. CorelDraw has a checkbox for maintaining layers but it
> doesn't work. I get everything grouped and dumped on the active layer. I guess version X3 is the
> same?
>
> Chris
>
>
> Os wrote:
>
>