Why are the colours in Fashion+Home palette in Corel X5 with names not with TPC or TPX numbers?
Why than you can not open your own Fashion+Home Digital Library?
How the fashion and textile designers will work with X5 if all the fabric producers work with Pantone numbers not with names?
Is there a possibility to adjust that and how ?
I saw just the trial version I wanted this week to order X5, but I am wondering now ......
The names in the files came to Corel from PANTONE. What are you looking at that shows the names differently then how they are being displayed in the applications?
T.
The Pantone Fashion and Home pallet swatches have two names - the Pantone reference name ( like PANTONE 11-0602 TCX ) and alpha name ( e.g. "Snow White" ) as secondary identifier ( http://www.pantone.com/pages/pantone/Pantone.aspx?pg=20051&ca=1 ). We used secondary identifier name as a name we show in our UI, however apparently F&H are quite different in this regard compared to other Pantone pallets. The original Pantone reference names are in the palette ( PantoneFashionHomeCotton.xml ) but it would require quite a lot of copy paste editing for user to make it work. We can regenerate F&H palettes using Pantone reference numbers, instead of secondary names, and make them available. However first we need to know whether nobody in textile/fashion world is using secondary alpha names e.g." Snow White" for reference. Currently our spot palette UI do not have support for both reference and secondary name, before F&H there was no need. Anybody who is using F&H Pantone libraries - could you please give your feedback about what Pantone reference you rely on - TCX/TC or name? Thanks.
Gennady
Because I asked Pantone the same question that is the answer:
If CorelDRAW has support for the PANTONE FASHION + HOME library, the colors would have to be displayed with the PANTONE numbers. Pantone would not allow any software licensee to display the PANTONE colors with just the names. You should check to be sure this is in fact a PANTONE library, and not a generic textile library.
When you have to show trends or new colours for the public - you use the names that's nicer , but when you send an information to the industrie for example , you dont send 100 names but the reference name(numbers). And realy it takes a lot of time to search and manualy to replace them.
I have a disk with Fashion + Home Pantone Digital Library and there they are with the numbers.
If Corel make a possibility to open this palette maybe that's will be a decision.
I really want that to work ,because this week there is a discount in OfficeCenter and I can buy Corel X5 a little bit cheaper :))))
Thank you for bringing this to our attention. Do I understand you correctly - you need us to show both Pantone reference number AND the alternative name in Draw X5 UI?
imary78 said: I have a disk with Fashion + Home Pantone Digital Library and there they are with the numbers. If Corel make a possibility to open this palette maybe that's will be a decision.
Hi i have two questions,
1.
it is possible to make aviable both (nr. and name) palettes?
Today i did update and i see only numbers,
in our company we use names internally and for catalogues and colors for manufacturers,as mentioned above.
2.
It is possible to make palette search right on screen at the bottom of pallete without opening anything?
like this:
Hi,
1. Currently X5 uses only PANTONE primary name ( i.e. TCX/TPX number in case of Fashion+home palettes ) in the UI. The reason is prior to the PANTONE Fashion + Home palettes there was no concept of alternative spot color name, this was not that subtle departure from the way spot color palettes are constructed. In X5 GM we did a mistake by using alternative names, not TCX/TPX numbers, this has been corrected in SP1. However still there is no way for us to show you both primary and alternative names in our UI.
So far all our feedback from textile designers indicated that they do not care about alternative names at all, they do not use it in their workflow. I believe your post is the first that proves otherwise. We should consider adding alternative names support, both in UI and in our color search, however it is unlikely to happen until SP2 or even next version of Draw if UI changes are really required.
2. The closest thing I can think of is to use Color docker ( Windows/Dockers/Color), select spot color palette, then press on the chicken button in right top corner, expand menu and select Find Color. As far as Color docker is open Find Color is two clicks away for any spot color palette. Perhaps this can be done through macros as well.