Issues after opening DXF and CDR formats

Hello. First of all, thanks for the efforts of developing a very well organized and responsive drawing program.

I notice two unwanted behaviours, possibly bugs, when opening DXF (interchange format) and CDR (Corel Draw) file formats:

  • DXF files sometimes open blank. I notice that this happens more frequently if I choose "Read from file" as a scaling option, rather than "Manual scale" (1x) - which nevertheless forces the unit to be mm. The attached file, for example, opens correctly only with "Manual scale" (but the sheet dimension is wrong).

STEPS TO REPRODUCE:

  1. Open my attached DXF file.
  2. In the popup opening options dialog, select "Read from file".
  3. A blank page opens. If, instead, you choose "Manual scaling", a 3-coloured drawing should appear. Even in this case, the page size is not correctly loaded and replaced with A4, Vertical.
  • A CDR file (attached to the post, aside its DXF) may be opened with wrong dimensions (3/4 of the original). In my example file, the base squares are 20 mm of side as designed in Corel and as measured in Inkscape ("Measure" tool) in the DXF; instead, the side is 15 mm once measured in Inkscape in the CDR.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE: Simply open my attached file and check the distance between two green circles centres with the Measure tool. It should be 20 mm as in the DXF.

Hope to see this problems clarified or fixed in the next future. Simone

ATTACHMENTS (the zip contains the CDR archive)

Wbomb-2cm-BlackBlueGr-SINGOLO.zip

Wbomb-2cm-BlackBlueGr-SINGOLO.dxf

VERSION


Inkscape 1.1.1 (3bf5ae0d25, 2021-09-20)

OS: Windows 10 21H1 on Intel Core i7 10th

Edited by Simone Onorati