Corel Draw

[anon35496508]

A friend of mine, in California, is in a band and designed the record sleeve for a release that’s coming out on a UK label. He sent me the artwork, as I work as a designer, and asked me to check it’s all OK.

The PDF he emailed me doesn’t fit the dimensions of the template. He insists he did it correctly.

So I asked him what software he used so that I could then get the original files from him instead of a PDF. And he told me it was Corel Draw.

My first thought was WTF, why is anyone using Corel Draw?!?!?!?

But the second question is why would a PDF made from Corel Draw be the wrong size? Does anyone know anything about Corel Draw and what might be going on here?

[urbanfox]

I seem to remember Corel Draw being a thing on our first PC back in 1998.

That’s all I know.

Did he email you from his freeserve email address?

[anon35496508]

Exactly what I was thinking.

[ericthefourth]

Liked their first EP

[CHAIRMAN_LMAO]

Can’t you open the PDF in Illustrator and hack it into the right dimensions?

[anon35496508]

Adding bleed isn’t always so simple. The sleeve design is kind of psychedelic.

[chris-budget]

Hasn’t he just done it wrong?

[jordan_229]

Ok Corel

[ma0sm]

Sounds like you should post this on the Corel Draw Newsgroup

[japes]

^under appreciated