CorelDRAW X4 :: Printing Spot Color Seps With Color Name On Each Page
Dec 23, 2011
We print out spot color seps every day using CorelDraw X4. After we print out the plates, I have to cut down the vellum that we print on so that we do not have a bunch of extra blank vellum on the sheet.
We make use of the info that is printed on the lower left of every page where it states something like the following:
S:DirectoryWhereTheArtworkisLocatedfilename.cdr
Wednesday, December 23, 2011 8:00 AM
Plate: 1 of 3
After I cut down the sheet, I then have to hand write the name of the spot color onto the sheet of vellum in marker.
Is there any way at all, to make it so that CorelDraw would actually add the name of the spot color that is printed on each page to the information that is already being printed to the lower left? Ideally, it could be placed in the same area where it's already printing the plate information on the last line.
Could it read:
Plate: 1 of 3 Color: Pantone 375
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Mar 7, 2012
My CorelMacros.CreateColorSwatch macro has stopped dumping the swatches into whatever blank Letter-sized document I have open (which is how it used to work) and instead it is creating a new document, at 4.25" wide x 7" high, and dumping the swatches into that. Using Pantone Solid Coated, but it's doing this regardless of what palette I choose.
There is no option in the Macro's dialog box to alter or even instantiate a page size, and I cannot find in the code of the macro where to set this variable.
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Jan 8, 2005
How does a guy color seperate art for screenprinting in PSCS. I build spot color work in Illustrator, but I want to take my designs to another level and I was told you can design art in PS and sep it for screens.
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Feb 18, 2013
I have PS CS6 and like to do B & W prints. I print them on my Canon MX870 printer (4 color printer) ... they turn out quite nice. VERY Black & White. Recently, I started doing B & W with a small highlight of color... like a photo of my daughter and her friends with just her red shoes in color.
The Black and White is now not truly B & W... it is slightly tinted ... purplish. I have tried adjusting the levels and contrast but it only changes the tinting to other tints... bluish, redish, etc. I use cmyk 300dpi (typical of what commercial print shops would use). Still no success. Or am I stuck having to send my photos to a printshop for printing?
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Sep 27, 2012
I have been trying to mess with and target "tints" via javascript but either I am not understanding something or it cant be targeted as I had hoped, so I am looking for direction and guidance. I have a spot color assigned in the color swatches palette, and have drawn a few boxes on the page using this spot swatch. I then try to alter the tint using JS code.
sel[i].tint = // whatever number
alert(sel[i].tint) // This alerts fine
The alert shows a change taking place but it never gets applied to the item, the actual item never gets changed. I know things are properly targeted as I can change other attributes fine. When I look in the JS documentation it just shows for when creating a new spot, not for ones that already exist on items, I cant seem to find an example otherwise.
Can tint be adjusted for items on the page that have a spot color applied?
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Aug 1, 2013
Illustrator CS6 (other users on 5)
Mac OS 10.6
I just need to go from K and tones of K to a spot color and tones of a spot color.
I'm using recolor artwork because I can't merge into K. The art comes in from our customers as K so we can't just design differently.
The rectangles on the right are k and tones of k. The rectangles on the left are the results after converting to a spot color with recolor artwork. Using recolor artwork. I just need a way to accurately move the tones from k to a spot.
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Oct 15, 2011
I've been using corel draw since version 4, and I love it. Now on x5 I cannot figure this out. I use eps files for printing large format with contour lines for cutting. My setup uses a spot color defined as "CutContour" for cutting. It seems x5 renames these colors or converts them to something else. I opened the same file in 12 and had to Reclick the same color for the cutter to see it and it worked fine. Any setting to change this?
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Dec 22, 2011
Just installed x5 and the only thing is abouit outputting spot colors. I check the box to output seperations, uncheck all the colors I don't want to print - but I still get all the colors printed out, including my page color. I have made SURE that I have only checked the steps I want printed and still get all of the colors printed!
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May 23, 2012
I am trying to set up my CorelDraw x6 workspace so that the default spot color palette is set to Pantone solid coated.
I go to:Tools > Options (or Customization) > Global > Color > set "Default spot color palette" to "PANTONE solid coated"
Unfortunately this seems to be ignored by x6.
Every time i want to change from a CMYK color to Pantone i must do the following:
1) select the objec
t2) double click the color chip adjacent to the Fill icon in the Status Bar
3) which brings up:
4) from here I select the Palettes tab (if it is not already selected)5) then select from the Palette drop down menu:SPOT > PANTONE > PANTONE+ > Solid Coated
This is a very clumsy and inefficient way to work as I must do this EVERY time I want to change from CMYK to Pantone.Is there any way to get x6 to operate correctly or is there something I am missing?
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Jan 20, 2011
Here at work we have recently upgraded from CorelDRAW 12 to X5. While this has come with plenty of great benefits (able to open newer versions of AI files), it seems some things are still present (stability issues). I actually work on a Mac at home for my freelance stuff so maybe I'm just used to the reliability that comes with a Mac. I enjoy PCs too but with years of experience with both I'd be lying if I said PCs are on par with what Apple brings to the table. Especially when it comes to graphic design work.
So this brings me to the problem of spot color anti-aliasing in the enhanced view of X5. The first two pictures below show how CorelDRAW 12 handled spot colors. These are direct SCREENSHOTS that I cropped in Photoshop, not exports. And I did no extra editing.
There is basically no difference between how the Pantone colors display on screen and how the RGB colors display. Which is great and what you'd expect, right?
However, let us step into X5 for a minute with the exact same colors, using the exact same palette.
Obviously there is a difference here. For some reason X5 has decided to anti-alias the Pantone colors in some weird way so that I get a tiny white outline (no the shapes don't have outlines). And if you look closely at the smaller purple box at the bottom you will see that even when I use the exact same pantone color from the exact same palette but with one color named differently, I get the white outline. The smaller box's color within is named '276 CV' while the outer box's color is named 'PANTONE 276 CV'.
How does simply naming a color effect how it displays on screen? Seems like a bug/glitch to me.
I know what is trying to be done here but why take a step backwards from CorelDRAW 12. I have a hard time using CorelDRAW as it is but as a graphic designer I need to know how something is going to look on screen without this unnecessary anti-aliasing going on.
So my questions are:
1.) Why does this do this in X5 but not 12?
2.) How to maybe turn it off? (I know I can view it in Normal view mode and the colors are fine but then my text is screwed up).
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Sep 24, 2013
I am using CorelDRAW X6. I am trying to export a graphic that includes several spot colors. The spot colors are from a library that a printer provided me. It is in the same location as my pantone library, and summa spot color library.
When I export as a pdf or eps to send to the printer it converts the spot color to rgb. If I have a pantone color or summa color in the file they stay as a spot but this new spot library does not. If I have these spot colors in a gradient they will stay as spot colors.
When exporting I have the color management checked to use document color settings, output colors as Native, and I have embed the color profile.
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Sep 13, 2013
i create a spot color (lab color management) when i create the pdf the spot color haven't the name setting in CorelDraw. If i export eps it's works greats! i don't convert spot in cmyk i want spot color in lab! i use onyx production house and it want spot color lab to renoze cutcontour or spot color as white ink.
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Some of the lighter, saturated colors in the PANTONE+ swatches library appear to be a different color in the swatch list than they are when applied to a design. see below for screen shots.
i can duplicate this situation on calibrated NEC MultiSync monitors and uncalibrated laptops. We are running on Mac OS X.8x and above.
Designers are complaining about not being able to pick a color from the Swatch Library in AICS6 or AICC. InDesignCC does not seem to have the same issue.
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Nov 24, 2013
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May 16, 2013
Is it possible to assign a custom spot color to a shape via VBA? The best I could come up with was something like the following (where "sh" represents a shape):
sh.Outline.Color.FixedAssign cdrCustom, 1, 100
I'm under the impression that cdrCustom is supposed to represent the user's custom spot color palette, but this doesn't seem to work.
Furthermore, I can manually assign a custom spot color to an object and then retrieve the PaletteID and PaletteIndex of that color using VBA. For example:
Debug.Print ActiveSelection.Shapes(1)..Outline.Color.PaletteID
Debug.Print ActiveSelection.Shapes(1)..Outline.Color.PaletteIndex
The PaletteID that returns is 0 (cdrCustom), and the PaletteIndex returned does correspond with its order in my custom spot color palette. In fact, I can also retrieve the Color.Name and it will correctly identify the custom spot color's name.
For the life of me, I just can't seem to assign these colors using VBA. Is it just that the VBA in CorelDRAW 11 is too immature?
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So Ive learned how to turn a color photo to B&W with spot color ...how to turn a color photo sepia, but also spot color. I have a wedding photos that I think would be a fun shot to play mixing those colors together . I have searched for the info earlier today and wasnt successful .
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xmp C 0 M 90 Y 100 K 0
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