I am creating simple tints of Pantones and publishing to PDF. All of a sudden any tints are appearing very dark, almost black, in the resulting PDF. Printing to Primo PDF works as expected. And if I import the PDF back into Drwa it looks correct. Any ideas?
The problem PDF is created using Draw's Publish to PDF.
Palette is Pantone Coated output as Native color.
Viewing in Acrobat Reader. Placing in InDesign shows the same problem.
Attached is a sample Draw file. PDF file follows.
Here's the PDF.
I've tried your CDR file in X6.41 using publish to PDF and two different presets, both of which create PDFs that look like your CDR file.
I think we should start by checking if you have the updates to X6 -- at http://www.corel.com/corel/pages/index.jsp?pgid=800161&ppid=5000008&popular
My version is 16.4.1.1281. When I started having this problem I uninstalled Draw, reinstalled, and used the three patches on the page in your link in order.
Below is what I am seeing in Reader, Photoshop and Indesign when I create a ramp from 100% Pantone Green on the left to 10% on the right. Weird.
Yes, I can see similar in the PDF you uploaded, using foxit reader.
I'm guessing that your PDF contains the correct pantone tints, but the wrong RGB equivalents. This means that it will show wrongly on screen, but will work correctly in a printer that uses the pantone definitions (and hence it also imports back into CorelDraw correctly).
But I could not reproduce your PDF using your file and X6.41. What PDF preset are you using for output?
Usually I have it set to prepress, document color settings, native color.
I have finally managed to reproduce the problem in a PDF.
To fix it, it looks as if you need to go to Tools->Color Management->Default Settings and change the value for Spot colour definition to LAB.
Thank you, Harry. That works, but I'm not sure why, nor why it has worked in the past using RGB values but not now. Is that just for on screen viewing?
Again, Thank you for looking into this.