[Freehand] FH to Corel or PageMaker

[Shaul Shapiro]

In your situation I would try to export individual pages in Illustrator .ai 
format (ver. 3 or 5 worked fine for us) and import them into a multi page 
Corel Draw document.

We had no success in keeping "live" text in this route, so the "convert to 
courves" option is probably the only option (Draw ver.12 may be capable to 
keep the text "alive", try it. Perhaps you can avoid the conversion which 
creates heavy files).

Alternatively Corel Draw can import .eps using the "import interpteted" 
option.

Good luck.


Shaul Shapiro







----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Raymond Weisling" <4.d.o.t.s at zetalink.biz>
To: "FreeHand Discussion List" <freehand at virtuoso.domainvanhorn.com>
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 10:16 AM
Subject: [Freehand] FH to Corel or PageMaker


> More specifically, I am authoring a series of 10 or more booklets, each 24 
> pages in length, using FH8 (reliable workhorse that it is) under old Mac 
> OS 9.1. The publisher uses PageMaker (version unknown, does it matter?) on 
> Windows, alternatively Corel Draw 12 on Windows.
>
> What is the best way to get multi-page FH8 files into these programs? I 
> know that simple FH files, if given a .cdr extension, open in Corel ok, 
> but haven't tried a 24-page FH file (typically 8-12 MB).
>
> Oh, anticipating font problems, I am taking all text to paths as a matter 
> of safety. If they have to edit text they are content to delete the paths 
> and retype the text, since it is usually short explanations for 
> illustrations (they're actually books of various puzzles for kids).
>
> TIA for any suggestions.
>
> Raymond Weisling
> Zetalink Technology Indonesia
>  & Fire Mountain Wordshop
>