[Inkscape-user] CorelDraw importation with uniconvertor

22 Sep 2008


      I try to get CorelDraw cdr files importation working with uniconvertor on 
Mandriva Linux.
uniconvertor is installed and working fine (the binary is called 
uniconvertor).
I have /usr/share/inkscape/extensions/cdr2svg.sh with these contents:
#! /bin/sh
rc=0
TMPDIR="${TMPDIR-/tmp}"
TEMPFILENAME=`mktemp 2>/dev/null || echo "$TMPDIR/$$"`
TEMPFILENAME=${TEMPFILENAME}.svg
unviconvertor "$1" "${TEMPFILENAME}" > /dev/null 2>&1 || rc=1
cat < "${TEMPFILENAME}" || rc=1
rm -f "${TEMPFILENAME}"
exit $rc
and there is also /usr/share/inkscape/extensions/cdr_input.inx:
<inkscape-extension>
    <_name>Corel DRAW Input</_name>
    <id>org.inkscape.input.cdr</id>
    <dependency type="executable" location="path">unviconvertor</
dependency>
    <dependency type="executable" location="extensions">cdr2svg.sh</
dependency>
    <input>
        <extension>.cdr</extension>
        <mimetype>application/vnd.corel-draw</mimetype>
        <_filetypename>Corel DRAW 7-X4 files (*.cdr)</_filetypename>
        <_filetypetooltip>Open files saved in Corel DRAW 7-X4</
_filetypetooltip>
        <output_extension>org.inkscape.output.cdr</output_extension>
    </input>
    <script>
        <command reldir="extensions">cdr2svg.sh</command>
    </script>
</inkscape-extension>
However when trying to open a cdr file with File - Open or File - Import 
in inkscape, I get the message:
Failed to load the requested file
And at the command line there is:
parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found
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which gives the impression that it interprets it as an svg file.
How do I get this working correctly?
-- 
Frederik Himpe