From Luke Jackson

Open .EPS Files with CorelDraw11

For some reason there is a bug in CorelDraw11 which prohibits it from opening .EPS files. Instead in inserts a gray box representing the bounding box of the image with the file information. I have found a workaround for this issue and it is explained below.

• Open CorelDraw11 and create a blank document.
• From the Tools sub-menu of the menu bar select Customization.
• You should now see the Options window appear. On the left side of this window there is a tree at the bottom of the tree is the Global element, Click on it and expand it.
• Click on Filters and on the right of the options window should appear the Filters file association options.
• What we want to do is tell Corel to use a different filter than the traditional EPS filter to open EPS files. So on the far right you should see a list box with all of the currently configured filters and their associated files. Locate EPS - Encapsulated PostScript and click on it once to highlight it. Click the Remove button.
• Once this is completed EPS files will fall back onto the PostScript filter. This is OK because an EPS is still PostScript at the core and we will only have to ensure some simple options for the filter at time of open. Click OK to save your changes and close the Options window.

Macros

Center Shapes and Crop Document

Sub AutoCenterObject()
    ActivePage.Shapes.All.Group
    ActivePage.Shapes(1).CreateSelection
    Dim width As Double, height As Double
        ActiveDocument.Unit = cdrInch
        ' Add 0.05in margin
        width = ActiveShape.SizeWidth + 0.05
        height = ActiveShape.SizeHeight + 0.05
    ' Set current page size
    ActivePage.SetSize width, height
    ' Set default document page size
    ActiveDocument.Pages(0).SetSize width, height
    CorelScript.AlignToCenterOfPage 3, 3
    ActivePage.Shapes.All.UngroupAll
    ActiveDocument.ClearSelection
End Sub

Tags

Visual Basic Script, VBA, Visual Basic Macro, Corel Draw