Corel version 11 for Mac & Windows problem... 1

[graphicgirl]

I bought version 11 for Mac and Windows - I can create a file on my mac, and take it to work and read it fine on my windows machine - however, when I create a file on my windows machine, then burn it onto a CD or try to open it over the network from my mac I have no luck - has anyone else had this issue and found a way to get past this problem??? I really need to figure this out!
THANKS.

 

[Brushman]

Try something simple and put it on a floppy just to rule out a CD burn problem and not a Corel problem. It is my understanding that files should cross platform although fonts may cause a problem, on that note

http://www.asy.com

has some excellent utillities for reading disk and converting fonts from MAC to PC and vice versa.
Regards
Alan

 

[graphicgirl]

Hi Brushman,
Thanks for always being on top of all my Corel problems! I have tried some different things - It seems that if I save EVERYTHING as a Corel file it is fine, but I also thought that .jpeg files could be read by windows and mac - and I can't do that - so, I just saved all my .jpegs I was using for this project as corel files and It seems to have worked fine.

 

[javabearSTL]

youll, you should never use JPGs as your "editing file" since that's a lossy format. But how are you trying to "open" these JPGs... are you looking at them in a web browser? If so, it sounds like you made CMYK JPGs - web browsers can't read CMYK, the images have to be RGB.

 

[graphicgirl]

Hi,
I'm not looking at the .jpeg files in a web browser, I'm simply trying to work between a mac machine and a windows XP machine on a simple file that was created in Corel and edited in Corel- the .jpeg format works fine since these are small (1.5" X 2&quot images that is dropped into mostly text to make a simple bulletin - nothing grand, but I couldn't figure out why my mac wouldn't even see them on the CD.

 

[javabearSTL]

did you make sure that you burned the CD in the proper format so a Mac can read it?