| 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. |
| Actions |
Convert CDR file
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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. |
| Associated programs |
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Reader
Corel PaintShop Photo Pro
Corel WordPerfect Office
LibreOffice |
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| Developed by |
Corel Corporation |
| MIME type |
application/cdr
application/x-cdr
image/cdr
image/x-cdr |
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| Useful links |
More information on the Coral Draw Package
Convert CDR file |
