PNG to CDR Converter
A PNG logo exported from Canva, a website or a phone app is clean, flat and often transparent, which makes it one of the best starting points for a vector trace. This page turns it into curves inside a CorelDRAW file.
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Model space is the full drawing. All layouts exports each paper-space sheet as its own page, as set up in AutoCAD.
Fit to page scales the drawing to fill the sheet. Actual size keeps drawing units 1:1 (1 mm in the drawing = 1 mm on paper) and may span a larger page.
Same as source uses the size set in each layout. A1 and A0 are the usual plotter sheets for architectural drawings.
Auto turns the page to match the drawing's longer side.
Monochrome prints every line black, like plotting with a monochrome.ctb style — best for printed plans on white paper.
White suits printing. Black looks like the AutoCAD drawing area; transparent works for placing the drawing in other documents (not available in JPG).
300 DPI is print quality; 150 is enough for screens. At A1 and 600 DPI an image is 14,000 px wide, so higher values make very large files.
Only used when the input is a photo or scan (JPG, PNG). Outline draws the edges of shapes, good for logos and laser cutting; centreline draws single lines through strokes, good for scanned line drawings and plotters.
Pixels darker than this become lines. Raise it if faint lines are missing, lower it if background noise turns into shapes.
Higher values give fewer, smoother curves; lower values follow the pixels more closely but create more points.
How to use this tool
- 1
Choose the PNG
Upload up to 20 PNG files, 95 MB each. The biggest version you can find gives the smoothest curves; a transparent background is fine.
- 2
Set how much ink counts
Under Advanced settings → Image tracing, Black/white threshold is 45% and Smoothing 70, tuned for flat logos. Keep Trace as on Outlines for shapes that will be filled or cut.
- 3
Convert to CDR
Press Convert to CDR (CorelDRAW) and download. Open the file in CorelDRAW, select all and check the node count in the status bar before you send it to a cutter.
Tracing a PNG decides, pixel by pixel, what is ink and what is paper, then draws curves along the border between the two; the threshold and smoothing settings are the whole art of it.
Why PNG traces cleanly into CorelDRAW
PNG became a W3C Recommendation in 1996 and stores pixels without lossy compression. A logo saved as PNG therefore has hard, exact edges and flat areas of a single color, which is precisely what a tracer wants. Many PNG logos also carry an alpha channel, so the background is already empty rather than white.
CorelDRAW users in sign making and screen printing receive these files constantly from clients who exported a logo from a website builder or a social media kit. A CDR made from that PNG gives the shop curves it can weed in vinyl, separate into screens or scale onto a vehicle wrap without the stair-step edges an enlarged bitmap would show.
Choosing the black/white threshold for a PNG logo
- 20%
Only near-black pixels; thin pale lines vanish
- 45%
Preset: dark brand colors on a light or empty background
- 65%
Mid-tone colors such as orange or teal count as ink
- 85%
Pastels are kept, but so is any light shading
Four things to fix in the PNG first
Remove shadows and glows
Soft effects are gray halos to a tracer. They become ragged shapes around the logo.
Crop to the artwork
Extra canvas becomes extra CorelDRAW page. A tight crop gives a page that matches the design.
Use the largest copy
A 2000 px PNG gives far smoother curves than a 200 px icon of the same logo.
Separate photo parts
Gradients and photos inside a logo do not trace into useful curves; recreate those parts in CorelDRAW.
PNG
Portable Network Graphics
PNG is a lossless raster format published in 1996 by the PNG Development Group and later standardised by the W3C and ISO. It keeps every pixel exactly, supports full alpha transparency and handles text, sharp edges and flat colours without artefacts. That precision makes it ideal for screenshots, logos, icons and interface graphics. The trade-off is size: photographs saved as PNG are often several times larger than the same photo as JPEG or WebP. All browsers, operating systems and editors open PNG files.
- Compression
- Lossless
- Transparency
- Yes
- Animation
- No
- Introduced
- 1996 · PNG Development Group
CDR
CorelDRAW drawing
CDR is the native file format of CorelDRAW, a vector graphics editor first released by Corel in 1989. It stores vector shapes, text, layers and multi-page layouts and is widely used in sign making, vinyl cutting, packaging and print shops. The format is proprietary and changes between CorelDRAW versions, so other programs import it only partially. Most viewers, browsers and design apps outside the Corel ecosystem cannot open CDR files.
- Compression
- –
- Transparency
- Yes
- Animation
- No
- Introduced
- 1989 · Corel
PNG to CDR is the route from a flat, often transparent logo or clip-art file to CorelDRAW curves a sign, screen-print or embroidery shop can cut, separate and scale, without redrawing it by hand.
The CDR from this page is meant for current CorelDRAW releases. If the recipient cannot open it, an SVG is the format almost every version imports; PNG to SVG traces the same file into that instead, and the CAD converter lists every other vector output.
PNG to CDR questions
What happens to the transparent background of my PNG?
Fully transparent pixels are treated as empty paper, so no shape is drawn there and the CDR contains only the artwork. Semi-transparent edges and drop shadows fall on either side of the threshold, which is why soft shadows are best removed before tracing.
Is PNG or JPG the better source for a CorelDRAW trace?
PNG, when you have the choice. It is lossless, so the edges of a logo are exactly as exported, while JPG compression adds faint noise that the trace may turn into stray specks. JPG to CDR handles those files with settings that tolerate the noise.
How do I get a multicolor logo back in color?
The trace produces one set of shapes from the dark areas. In CorelDRAW, break the result apart (Ctrl+K), then fill each piece with the right color. For logos where light colors sit next to dark ones, trace once at a high threshold and once at a low one and combine the two.
Can the CDR go straight to an embroidery digitizer?
It gives the digitizer clean shapes to work from, which is what most of them ask for. Stitches, underlay and pull compensation are still planned in the digitizing software; no file conversion produces a stitch file such as DST.
How many nodes is too many for a vinyl cutter?
There is no fixed limit, but a simple letter with hundreds of nodes cuts slowly and can drag the blade. If CorelDRAW reports thousands of nodes on a simple logo, raise Smoothing and convert again; that removes most of them.
Will the curves be the same size as my PNG?
The page is normally sized from the pixel dimensions and the resolution stored in the PNG, so check one known measurement in CorelDRAW and scale the group to the final size. Vector curves can be resized freely without losing sharpness.
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