Installing Corel Draw Plugin

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I found a lot of stuff on this in the old FAQ- no idea of the accuracy, perhaps something will be useful?

To install RDWorks v8.01.19 plugin to Corel Draw X8.

Before installing RDWorks plugin you must first create this folder
C:\Program Files\Corel\CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X8\Draw\GMS
otherwise the plugin installation will fail.

When you install RDWorks, Choose CorelDraw from the drop down menu and click "Install".
It will install RDWorks into a subfolder inside CorelDraw. You will then have a small green button to send to RDWorks on the menu bar.

Post by Pete Cyr » Thu Jan 26, 2017 8:03 am
I run Corel 64bit and rdworks without issue. the link below is a video that gives a step by step process to load RDWORKS with corel - it assumes rdworks was installed in advance of corel and out how to remove ALL the stray bits

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHela0GXcfc

Post by Pete Cyr » Thu Jan 26, 2017 2:56 pm
I was wrong I have x7 64bit - see pics

Post by Ian Bell » Wed Jul 19, 2017 1:44 pm
Before installing RDWorks plugin you must first create this folder
C:\Program Files\Corel\CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X8\Draw
otherwise the plugin installation will fail.
Found I needed to add the new folder in the path as below

C:\Program Files\Corel\CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X8\Draw\GMS

Appears to be working fine on X64

by Ian Bell » Mon Jul 24, 2017 6:16 pm


One thing to note ....

If you already had rdworks installed and then go through the process of uninstalling to reinstall the corel plugin ....

BACKUP your parameter library

I didn't and lost it, not sure what files need backed up but CHECK first .......
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