File Formats: Corel Presentation Exchange Format (CMX)

The Corel Presentation Exchange file format is the presentation format of the CorelSuite applications. It is a recording of the display primitives of an application to a display interface. The CMX format supports Intel and Motorola binary formats.

CMX adopts the Resource Interchange File Format (RIFF). The entire CMX file is enclosed within either the RIFF or RIFX form, depending on the platform.

This file format is not supported in the non-vector toolkits. Read support for this format is provided in the LEADTOOLS Vector toolkits and are unlocked when the Vector features are unlocked.

The default extension used by this format is: CMX.

This file format is supported by CorelDraw.

LEAD supports versions 5, 6, 7, and 8 of this format.

This file format does support layers. LEAD does not support RImage.

The file constants associated with this file format are:

Constant Read Support Write Support Description
Cmx Yes No Corel Presentation Exchange Format.

When CMX files are rasterized, they are 24 BPP.

The following table indicates which objects LEAD can load and which objects it can save:

Object: Load: Save:
Ellipse Supported Not Supported
PolyDraw Supported Not Supported
Raster Supported Not Supported
Rectangle Supported Not Supported
Text Supported Not Supported

Required DLL: Leadtools.Vector.dll and Leadtools.Codecs.Cmx.dll. For a listing of the exact DLLs needed, based on the toolkit version, refer to Files To Be Included With Your Application .

Related Formats: CGM - Computer Graphics Metafile, DGN - Intergraph Format, DRW - Micrografx Designer DRaWing, DWF - DWF Format, DWG - DWG Format, DXF - Drawing Interchange Format, EMF - Windows Metafile Formats, GBR - Gerber Format, NAP -NAPLPS Format, PCL - Printer Command Language Format, PCT - Macintosh Pict Format, PDF - Portable Document Format, PLT - PLT / HPGL Format, PS - PostScript Document Format, RTF - Rich Text Format, SHP - ESRI Shape Format, SVG - Scalable Vector Graphics Format, WPG - WordPerfect Vector Format, WMF - Windows Metafile Formats, WMZ - Compressed Windows Metafile Format, E00 - ArcInfo Interchange File Format, MIF - MapInfo Interchange File Format.

Platform Support

Extension Module Value Win32 Win64 Net32 Net64 Linux Android Apple UWP MimeType Friendly Name
Cmx CMX 261 CMX - Corel Presentation Exchange Format

For a complete list for supported file formats, see Summary of All Supported File Formats.

For details of the file formats supported across products and platforms, refer to File Format Comparison Chart.

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