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Originally Posted by DNSB
Not going to be much help to you but why would anyone choose a vector graphics oriented program to create and store a book. Creating covers and illustrations, yes. Writing and storing the entire book?
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CorelDRAW is far more than just a vector graphic program. It can be used reasonably well as a page layout program. It's not a well suited for the job as InDesign, but still quite competent for creating modest sized books. It, like the antique Macromedia FreeHand, is vastly more flexible than Adobe Illustrator even now that Ai has incorporated a FreeHand-derived multiple page capability. Back in the day, I managed to create a nicely laid out and typeset book of Robert Lewis Stevenson's
Silverado Squaters, first in FH and then in CDR both as tests of the programs' abilities (I was on the FH design team at the time).
@OP - You aren't going to be able to do much with the CDR file except to export it as a PDF, being careful to select options so that the text exports as text (not converted to curves, ...) and that the necessary fonts are included/embedded. You will the need to "massage" the PDF in some other program (read through MR's "stickies" on PDF conversion for more info) before exporting into a file that calibre or some other app can use to convert to ePub. You need to expect that most/all formatting will be lost as ePub and print formatting are vastly incompatible. The ePub created will then need to be edited in an ePub editor, either calibre's or Sigil, to get the final desired formatting.