Import TDR files

[Ponny]

Meow

Is there any hope to import TDR files into Xara?
TDR is extention for program TopDraw. TopDraw is vector based drawing program made from Top Software, Conifer, USA.


Ponny

[gwpriester]

Not in native format. Can you export from TopDraw in PDF format?

[Ponny]

Sorry, no. That is the Problem. TopDraw can export only in WMF. Vector. All other is raster formats. Well, you can export drawing to PDF, but result is image - raster.

And another bad news. TopDraw is 16 bit program. That means, not working in Windows 10.
That means, I can only import his files into other tool, if I can find import filter.

[gwpriester]

PDF supports both vector and bitmap. But if TopDraw's PDF export is very weak, then it probably converts everything into a single bitmap and exports it as a PDF.

WMF also supports both vector and bitmaps.

Have you tried these?

[Ponny]

Yes I exported many file from TDR to WMF. But export to WMF produce ..... mess. Forest of nodes. And fill gradients transforms to 32, 64 or more objects. That mean, I had to redraw almost all objects in picture.

Well anyway I saved the most important files. But there is still many less important files in TDR. This is reason, why I ask this.

Well, there is almost no hope, because developing of TopDraw stops in year 1996 at version 3.1. This is 16 bit versino.

Thankyou anyway.

[gwpriester]

Sorry. However, some times, when you have to do something over again, you make it better the second time.