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I have some .rif files (NOT .rtf) from an old CorelDraw program (from Windows 98) that are illustrations for a book my wife made. She wants to get back to these but we can't find a program to open them and so far I haven't been able to get Paint.net to. Can anyone tell me if it will and if so, how? Do I need a plugin for them? I'm new at this so asking questions. Am attaching one as an example.

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Hellon AllenR,

 

You may have to find someone who has CorelDraw to save as or export the illustrations to a format you can use (Jpeg, PNG, TIFF...)

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Thanks Eli. I'm asking around if anyone I know has CorelDraw but no luck so far. I thought Paint would open the files so I could save them to another format but apparently it won't.

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It isn't impossible.  Paint.NET does support File Type plugins, so some enterprising plugin developer might take a stab at making a plugin that would load those files, assuming the filetype spec is somewhere publicly available.

 

I, however, am not a plugin dev.  So that person would not be me.

 

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