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CDR (Image)
| File extension | .cdr |
| Category | Image File |
| Description | CDR was a file format developed by the Corel Corporation and is used primarily for Vector graphic drawings. It is used as the default format from the Corel Draw application which was first developed in 1987 by Michael Bouillon and Pat Beirne who were tasked with developing a vector based illustration program that Corel could package with their desktop publishing solutions. In 2007 Microsoft took exception to the CDR format wrongly blaming it for some security vulnerabilities in it's Microsoft Office suite of products. They concluded that actually this was innacurate and developed a bunch of tools to allow users to import CDR files into MS Office 2003. |
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| Technical Details | There is no publicly available CDR file format specification. It has however evolved over time from it's initial offering in January 1989 to the present day where it is a different beast to what was initially developed to include including support for color management and spot colors, and has a basic support for text. |
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| Developed by | Corel Corporation |
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PCX (Image)
| File extension | .pcx |
| Category | Image File |
| Description | The .pcx file extension was developed in the 1980s by the ZSoft Corporation. It has since been superseded by other image formats such as png, giff and jpeg. The file type is used rarely at present, however certain scanning devices still output to the .pcx format. |
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| Technical Details | The PCX format was one of the first common bitmap image formats. A PCX file comprises of three elements: the header, image data and the 256 colour palette. PCX utiises a lossless compression technique. The compression technique used is not processor intensive which was an advantage at the time of development due to the relatively limited processing power of hardware in the 1980s. |
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| Developed by | ZSoft Corporation |
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Convert CDR file
Using Zamzar, it is possible to convert CDR files to a variety of other formats
- cdr to ai (Adobe Illustrator Artwork)
- cdr to bmp (Windows bitmap)
- cdr to eps (Encapsulated PostScript)
- cdr to gif (Compuserve graphics interchange)
- cdr to jpg (JPEG compliant image)
- cdr to pcx (Paintbrush Bitmap Image)
- cdr to pdf (Portable Document Format)
- cdr to png (Portable Network Graphic)
- cdr to svg (Scalable Vector Graphics)
- cdr to tga (Truevision Targa Graphic)
- cdr to tiff (Tagged image file format)
- cdr to wbmp (Wireless Bitmap File Format)
- cdr to webp (Lossily compressed image file)