On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 11:39:16PM -0300, bulia byak wrote:
On 9/23/05, Daniel Stiefelmaier <webmaster@...985...> wrote:
personally i'd love to see CorelDraw import. But i guess there are other more common formats, and cdr files seem to be hard to reverse engineer.
Easy, just have them sponsor uberconverter, as Xara did :)
Seriously, no chance they would do that. They likely perceive themselves as a "big player" and don't think they would benefit from compatibility with smaller players, lest those erode their markershare.
Note that Xara had already earlier taken the step of opening their file format. So sponsoring an OSS project for their file format is a logical next step. Other companies won't be so foreward minded. If we want Illustrator and CorelDraw compatibility, our community may have to acquire that itself.
Bryce