Corel Draw 12 crashing when importing a file

[signguy 55]

Ok, enough of this. I'm working in Flexi, I'm starting to do designs for another sign shop that only has CorelDraw x3. I export the Flexi file as an .ai file and save to my desktop. I then try to import the .ai file into my version of CorelDraw 12 to send to the other shop. But when I try to import the ai file, Corel crashes (the whole program just shuts down.)

Fortunately I have Corel Draw 8. The illy file opens fine in ver 8, and I can then save and Corel Draw 12 opens it fine. This has been going on for a while. At least I can work around it but is there a solution?

Also do some fonts in Corel have the "jaggies". Some of the rough layouts I'm getting that were designed in Corel show some rough looking edges on the fonts, it seems like Corel had a problem with that in the past, I didn't know if that was still the case. (Possibly if the text was converted to curves?)

Thanks for any help / tips.

 

[J Hill Designs]

for the jaggies thing, are you viewing enhanced? if normal, it jaggies everything to save on gfx rendering

 

[Mega Format]

Corel importing AI

Try to save the .AI to a lower version.

 

[signguy 55]

Try to save the .AI to a lower version.

My 7.5 version of Flexi doesn't have any options to export the ai file as a lower version. You export as it is evidently.

 

[J Hill Designs]

try eps?