CorelDraw and commercial printing

[tuff_gong]

I'm doing a poll about the acceptance of native CorelDraw files.
Printers - do you take them?
Designers - do you find you can submit them, or is finding a commercial printer who accepts them a problem?

Note this is not a question about about Corel's quality as a dtp application ( I have my own opinions about that........) nor about accepting CDR jobs exported as eps or AI files.

[Cory]

In general we don't accept Corel Draw files..but that is mainly due to none of our customers working with it..

If we had more of a need for it, I'm sure we would find a way (just like publisher and word)

[DCurry]

We accept CorelDraw files, but they are indeed a rare thing. In 6 years at my current shop, I think there have been fewer than a dozen altogether.

[titanium667]

I've always accepted Corel Draw files. Only receive about 2 or three
a year or so! Usuall just convert text to outlines and export as a
Adobe Illustrator file or PDF.

[JimG]

Get very few if any native Coreldraw files. Standard proced. would be to eps out and place the page in Quark.

[Skoop]

I dont think coreldraw is used at all here, i have never recived anything created with it since i began working in this biz

[JimG]

Good, your lucky!!

[Lammy]

I can count on one hand the number of Corel files I've ad to deal with. With a RAMpage rip is was never a big deal as long as they didn't use transparency.

[cari]

If it prints, you can generate PDF, probably best via PostScript to Distiller (i.e. printing to Adobe PDF), using Press Quality settings.

Maybe that's a plausible solution?

[BillDetty]

I'm sure I've said this somewhere else already, but by accident I found a printer who takes only CorelDraw files.

Okay, she does take PDFs, but she was really thrown when I submitted a Quark file.

This printer was the client's anointed printer and I had to work with her, of course.