I followed all the instructions in the following post:

viewtopic.php?f=5&p=4665

However, I am not getting the option to open or import a cdr file to show up in the list of supported files. Something is not working.

This is my cdr_input.inx file:
<inkscape-extension>
<_name>Corel DRAW Input</_name>
<id>org.inkscape.input.cdr</id>
<dependency type="executable" location="path">uniconv.cmd</dependency>
<dependency type="executable" location="extensions">uniconv-ext.py</dependency>
<input>
<extension>.cdr</extension>
<mimetype>image/x-xcdr</mimetype>
<_filetypename>Corel DRAW 7-X4 files (*.cdr)</_filetypename>
<_filetypetooltip>Open files saved in Corel DRAW 7-X4</_filetypetooltip>
<output_extension>org.inkscape.output.cdr</output_extension>
</input>
<script>
<command reldir="extensions" interpreter="python">uniconv-ext.py</command>
</script>
</inkscape-extension>


Please help...

The error that I get is "Failed to load the requested file"

This is probably related to the file type not being listed though.

Look at this post viewtopic.php?f=5&t=935
It worked for me, but didn't preserved colors.