in this video I will be showing you how
you can open up a CDR file without using
the program called Coral draw so as you
may know Coral draw is a program that
you need to pay for and it does actually
come with a 14 day free trial but once
that trial expires then you're no longer
able to use it unless you pay
so if you want to open up a CBR file
which is the default file format for
Corel Draw then there's two programs
that we can use to do this and those
programs are free so if I open up coral
troll you can see here I've got a logo
of computer sluggish if I go onto file
and then save as I'm now going to save
this as a CDR file format so I'm just
going to Simply go save I'm just going
to keep the file name as Untitled
so now that's saved into my documents
the next thing that I want to do now is
open up this file but without using
coral draw so I'm now going to close
this down as you can see there the
yearly cost of coreldraw is
319 pounds so that's a lot of money
especially when we can open up the file
for free so I'm just going to close this
the next thing that you need to do is
click on the link that's in the
description below so like I said there
are two programs that we can use to open
up coral draw files we can either use
Libra office draw or you can use another
program called inkscape
so the first program that I'm going to
show you is inkscape so I've actually
already got it installed on my computer
but that website looks like this so once
you've clicked onto the inkscape website
in the description below you will end up
on the page that looks like this you
will then see a download now option you
need to Simply click onto this and you
then need to run this setup file so you
can see here you've got MSI just go
ahead and click onto that and the
download will then begin once the
download is finished you can see here in
Firefox it's currently downloading the
file
so you can then go ahead and click onto
the MSI file and go ok and then follow
the steps to install inkscape so I've
actually already got it installed on my
computer so once you've installed
inkscape
you can then go ahead and open it okay
so as you can see I'm now in inkscape so
the next thing that you need to do once
you've opened up the program is click on
file in the top left hand corner and
then go open
you then need to browse to the location
where the file is the CDR file so you
can see here that is in my documents so
if I select this file and then go open
it will then open it up and you can see
that in the top left hand corner it's
got Untitled and then dot CBR so that's
how you open up a CBR file in inkscape
so the next thing to do if you want to
use the other program which is Libra
office draw you need to click on the
other link that's in the description
below and you will then end up on the
page that looks like this so you then
need to click on download now and you
then need to click on download make sure
you've got your version of Windows
selected whether it's 64-bit or 32-bit
Go download and then simply run the
setup file again so you can see there is
downloading the dot MSI once that's
finished downloading to my computer I
can then follow the steps to install
Libra office
if you've not used liberal offers before
it's actually a really great program it
comes with loads of different programs a
bit like Microsoft Office so it's got
like an Excel a word
basically just all the things that you
would find in office 365. so I'm now
going to run the dot MSI and then again
just go through the steps of installing
Libra office and once it's installed so
I'm just going to cancel that because
I've actually already got it installed
once it's installed go ahead and open up
liberal office so you can see that I've
got Libra office draw I'm just going to
select this and again once the program
has opened you can then go file and then
you can go open you then need to go to
location where the coral draw dot file
or dot CDR file is so you can see here
it's in my documents folder if I then
click on open you can now see that it's
opened up that file
so that's how you can open up dot CDR
files without using coral draw on your
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