Importing only 1st page from a multipage CDR

Anybody have a clue???

I've try almost everything but can't find something to work, StructImportOptions seems not to have a choice, not even the command itself have a parameter to help.
Anyways, this is my scenario: need to import cdr files (wich rarely have more than 1 page) into an already built doc wich have 7 pages. What I'm getting when importing files with more than 1 page is: Corel add to my document [pages.count -1] pages and place what is in the 1st page of the imported doc in the 1st page of my working doc and the rest of pages in the same way (I really don't get why the heck is adding pages to a document that already has enough pages to put its contents) ignoring what page is currently active. It doesn't happens when the imported doc has only 1 page because it seems to treat the doc's contents like a unique object.
I know I could open the file, activate first page, select whatever is inside and copy/paste in my doc and activate the original doc and close it but... it should be easy to stand activelayer.import <file>, <page(s)> or something like that.

I just did my last research before post but... nope. I'm hitting Send right now. Tnx.

[Alex]

Well, unfortunately there is no way. CorelDRAW just brings in all the pages. The only thing you can do is to disable StructImportOptions.MaintainLayers and all the objects from all the pages should come in as a single group.

Unfortunately CorelDRAW has a bug in import code that still adds all the pages to the document. The way it supposed to work is that if you have a 7 page document (page 7 is active) and you import a 2 page document, the first page of the document being imported should be placed on page 7 of the current one, and the second page should go to the page 8 which will be added. However currently, the application adds pages as expected, but puts the additional pages on pages 2 and up. Which is just a plain bug.

I hope this explains it a bit...

How sad, following the object structure of a Doc the StructImportOptions MUST have more choices like page range selection because layers "lays" on Pages and pages on documents and so on...

Hope v13 fix it!
Thanks Alex.


BTW, disabling StructImportOptions.MaintainLayers doesn't keep all objects together in a group, only groups objects by page.

:wink:

[Alex]

VBA can't do more than CorelDRAW can do by itself (in most cases). So if you can't just import one page through UI, chances are you can't through VBA either...

There are some functions which can be done through VBA only, but in most cases, object model just provides a programmatic interface to what the application can do.