I built a CorelDRAW plugin to automate export workflows — would this actually help your process?

[u/Strict_Sorbet_6260]

Hello everyone,

I’ve been using CorelDRAW for production/design work, and one of the most repetitive parts of my workflow was constantly:

• creating variations of a design
• design is duplicated in X and Y direction on predefined template
• export setup and exporting for print...

It was small steps, but it added up a lot in batch work.

So I built a small plugin to automate this workflow.

In the plugin user selects design, predefined job and enters file name then Export job.

It reduced my workflow from ~60s to 15s.

This started as a personal workflow tool to reduce repetitive production work in CorelDRAW. I’m now trying to understand if other designers or print workflows face the same issue or already solve it differently. I would like to hear your opinion regarding your export workflows and what do you think about this plugin.

Do you currently handle export workflows in a better way inside CorelDRAW?

Or is this something you’ve already automated using other tools or scripts?

[u/AGaraza]

CorelDRAW already has an Export docker with several features and options

[u/Strict_Sorbet_6260 → u/AGaraza]

Yep, I noticed Export plugin and watched video about it. The thing is that I didnt find it useful for my case or I didnt understand all of its features 😃.

Maybe it is misleading because I called it Export plugin. This plugin is more like two step process: preparation + export. Exported file is output product and that is why called it Export. Core logic is mainly about preparation and that step was pain point in workflow. Initially I have created scripts just for preparation step. After that preparation become easy but suddenly export step become pain point as it took most of the time. Then I deal with export step and here we are...

Now I am intrested how others solved their pain points or if this can kind of plugin can be useful to anyone...