2022 and I've had bad experience opening EPS files with gradient fills in Corel 2019 and Corel 2021. The EPS file had the gradient broken into lots of seperate lines. When I imported the original AI files, I could select the gradient and change it in Corel, although my change was to select no fill for the object, and then create the fill I wanted.
When the customer wants cdr files, and you use AI on Apple PC, best bet is to get a modest PC with customers version of Windows and same version of Corel Draw (customer may need to upgrade if they have old version of Corel Draw due to backward compatibilty issues.) In this way you can import the images into Corel Draw and make any corrections that may be needed. It will also help with other PC based customers, who want digital art they can use and modify. Not saying new PC is required, check local service shops for 3 to 4 year old machine and monitor, and ebay for graphics card upgrade if needed. Too risky to convert to cdr without seeing those files the same way the customer will.
I'm working with a Design Company now and have learned AI -> SVG, WMF, or EMF all have issues. I'm now going to have him just give me the AI files, I import into Corel, fix the text, then batch export to non-propretary SVG and WMF. Yes, WMF is very, very, very old and only 16-bit. But these are simple graphics, grey scale or primary colors -nothing requiring more than 16-bit, and unlike AI, Corel doesn't hork up the size, or the smoothness of circles when exporting to WMF. I'm dealing with hudreds of illustrations for PowerPoint slides and text books. EPS has been banned from MS Office. So even if EPS pulled into Corel well, I can't use it for PowerPoint slides. EMF (Enhanced Windows Metafile) imports into Office products at the wrong size -I don't want to have to resize hundreds of images. I'll also batch export to WMF and also SVG, and see how that newer SVG format works out.
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