opening .cdt files

[kartvelo]

I'm going through piles of old software from my folks' house, and they have both PrintMaster and PrintShop. I don't care about the programs, but there are also several CDs of art and photos. I'd like to see what all that stuff is, but it's not worth buying software I don't want to satisfy my curiosity.

Is there a not-too-much-hassle way of opening these .cdt files and seeing the images?

 

[djbayko]

Does this work?

http://www.pdfconvertonline.com/coreldraw-to-pdf-online.html

You could also try installing the free trial of Corel Draw. I don't know what limitations they place on the free version, but if you're just opening existing files to view them, I doubt you'll bump into them.

 

[kartvelo]

I had tried the CorelDraw trial, but was getting "I/O Error" on all the files.
I'll give the pdfconverter a whirl later on. Thanks!

 

[kartvelo]

Alas, the pdfconverter processes up to 100%, then starts over, gets to 100%, starts over, etc....
I've already spent more time than the graphics are worth, so I think that'll be the end of it.

 

[saintnick912]

Poking around, Inkscape may open them also https://inkscape.org/en/

 

[kartvelo]

Poking around, Inkscape may open them also https://inkscape.org/en/

That's what it looked like to me, too. It doesn't, though. Corel must have done something special to these files.