Question about Opening an ODG File

Skuddle · December 19, 2021, 8:33pm

I’m a new user of LibreOffice version 7.2. I last used OpenOffice in 2017. At that time I used it to open all of my CorelDraw version 12 CDRs and convert them to OpenOffice ODG files.

When I open an existing ODG file the drawing appears on a 120-inch wide by 140-inch high. When I click Page>Page Properties I can change the page size to 8.5x11 inches but the drawing itself disappears. The drawing reappears only after I go back into the Page Properties and change them back to 120x140 inches.

How can I change the page size and still see the drawing?

robleyd · December 19, 2021, 10:42pm

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LeroyG · December 19, 2021, 8:42pm

Just zoom out.

As a workaround, first reduce your drawing, then change page size.

EDIT:

Ctral+A (the same that Edit - Select All)
F4 (to open the Position and Size dialog)
Check Keep ratio
Set Width to 8.5
OK

Skuddle · December 19, 2021, 11:27pm

I can zoom in but I can’t zoom out far enough. When I zoom out to the max, most of the drawing is not visible.

The files I’m looking at were created in CorelDraw, and the page size that I used when I created the files was 120 feet by 200 feet (or somewhere in that area). So maybe the file I’m trying to work with in LO has a paper size that LO doesn’t support?

Skuddle · December 23, 2021, 10:10pm

So what is the maximum dimension that LO can work with? Looks like 50 feet to me. Some of my Corel drawings are around 120 feet.

EarnestAl · December 24, 2021, 10:27am

Maximum paper size is 6 metres x 6 metres on 7.1.8.1.
If you scale your picture (Tools > Options > LibreOffice Draw > General) then I don’t know what it would max out at. If you have a scale of 1:100 you could draw an image 600 m x 600 m (1270ft x 1270ft).

Skuddle · December 24, 2021, 4:16pm

This is all pretty confusing to me. The upshot is that while LibreOffice can open a CorelDraw file that has object dimensions are greater than 40 feet but to get those objects to fit on an 11-inch “slide” requires a lot of detailed work on the text boxes. Probably because LO cannot correctly import text boxes from CorelDraw.

I would like to thank all who responded to this thread.