What is CDR File Extension?

A Complete Description of Corel Draw Vector Image Drawing File


What is CDR File & What does it Stands For?

CDR stands for Corel Draw Vector Drawing File. CDR file extension for a vector graphics files, which is used by CorelDraw. Corel Draw is a popular vector graphics design program developed by Corel Corporation and it is used for vector graphic design and editing. CorelDraw also known as Corel’s graphics suit and it is designed to edit two dimensional images such as posters and logos. CDR files are vector images created with CorelDRAW used by Corel software and not recognized by other image editing software. If CDR Drawing file is opened in CorelDRAW, then it may be exported in other file formats. CDR files can be viewed by Adobe Illustrator 9.0 or its later version, CorelDraw 10 or its earlier version, and Corel Paint Shop Pro.


what is CDR Image File

MIME Type Of CDR Image File

application/cdr, application/coreldraw, application/x-cdr, application/x-coreldraw, image/cdr, image/x-cdr, zz-application/zz-winassoc-cdr

Features Of CDR Drawing File

The features of CDR file are as follows:

  • CDR file format is used for vector graphic drawings.
  • CDR files can be designed and edited easily.
  • CDR file extension is developed by Corel corporation.
  • CDR files are drawings used by Corel software.
  • CDR Drawing file is created with CorelDraw program.
  • It supports Windows Operating system

Type Of Corel Draw Vector Image File

It is mainly of four types. These four types are describe below:

  1. CorelDraw Image File: It is vector image file with file extension .cdr and file format of this file is binary. It is developed by Corel.
  2. Macintosh DVD/CD Master: This files come in the category of disk image files and created on Macintosh computers with CDR files
  3. Raw Audio CD Data File: It is kind of an audio file with extension .cdr and with binary file format.
  4. Crash Data Retrieval Data File: This files come in the category of data files and it is developed by Bosch.

How To Access Corel Draw Vector Image Drawing File

DR Files can be opened in Corel Draw, Corel Paint Shop Pro, and Adobe Illustrator 9.0 or later applications by Double-clicking on it.

More Information About CDR Files

  • In 2007, Microsoft blocked CDR drawing file in MS Office 2003 and release the other package Service Pack 3 for Microsoft Office 2003. Later, Microsoft apologized for wrongly blaming the CDR file format for security related problems in MS Office and released some software’s for solving this problem.
  • In 2012 the joint LibreOffice team created libcdr. It is a library for opening CDR files.
  • 3. Raw Audio CD Data File: It is kind of an audio file with extension .cdr and with binary file format.
  • 4. Crash Data Retrieval Data File: This files come in the category of data files and it is developed by Bosch.
 

Conclusion

We have discussed what is CDR file & what does it stands for? It is a Corel Draw Vector Drawing File used for vector graphics drawing. CDR file format is developed by Corel Corporation. CDR file extension is the default format for Corel Draw Application. Users of Microsoft Windows Operating systems can create, open or view the data of a CDR drawing file with the help of CorelDraw program and other Corel applications supported by Windows Operating System. Users of Mac have to install Inkscape software to create and access CDR files. Once the CDR Drawing file is accessed it can be extracted into another file format.