Dear Forum Members,
I have EPS art that displays with vibrant colors when I view the art in either IrfranView or Adobe Illustrator. However, when I import the same art into CorelDraw X6 all the colors display as dull and not at all vibrant like the other two apps.
Obviously, it's a color management issue. I have spent 1 hour tweaking Corel Draw Color Management setting with no success. I thought changing all "Import and Paste Settings" to "Use Embedded Color Profile" would do the trick however dull colors still persist.
In short, I would really welcome anyone out there who knows how to correctly adjust Corel Draw X6 colors to post in this thread. My goal is to get Corel Draw X6 colors to match what I see in IrfranView and Adobe Illustrator.
Thank you in advance for any help.
This is the same art as low res png I opened the original file in illustrator cs6 saved it as an illustrator eps The dialogue box in illustrator says converted when saved.
I then imported it into CorelDraw x6 the original eps I suspect this was originally saved as illustrator macintosh a long time ago
There is no transparency in the file. Not that I clicked on all 7 billion objects. It is just that CD cannot cope with something as simple as (mainly) the radial gradients in this half-ancient EPS file.
Which is why resaving as a PDF or as an AI file works.
MikeWe said: with something as simple as (mainly) the radial gradients in this half-ancient EPS file.
Clearly you do not understand the difference between a true EPS file and Illustrator EPS file. Adobe cheats with all AI versions of EPS and PDF, so if these types of files are saved as Adobe Illustrator versions of these file formats only AI will open them properly.
David Milisock said: with something as simple as (mainly) the radial gradients in this half-ancient EPS file. Clearly you do not understand the difference between a true EPS file and Illustrator EPS file. Adobe cheats with all AI versions of EPS and PDF, so if these types of files are saved as Adobe Illustrator versions of these file formats only AI will open them properly. [/quote] Clearly you just love to position yourself as an authority and, at times, put others down in the process. Look. I fully understand that AI will/can save AI private data in both an EPS and (can in a) PDF. Big ripping deal. The actual EPS data in that file contains instructions for (mainly) simple two-color radial gradients. Go ahead, pull the EPS apart. Other applications can read the EPS data properly. Xara Designer Pro being used hee in the screen shot. It is only reading the EPS data, it cannot read the AI private data section (nothing can as far as I know). So before you spout off your wisdom from on high and put others down, get your facts in order. Alternately, go ahead and spout the wisdom...just do it without the air of superiority and putting others down.
with something as simple as (mainly) the radial gradients in this half-ancient EPS file.
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Clearly you just love to position yourself as an authority and, at times, put others down in the process.
Look. I fully understand that AI will/can save AI private data in both an EPS and (can in a) PDF. Big ripping deal. The actual EPS data in that file contains instructions for (mainly) simple two-color radial gradients. Go ahead, pull the EPS apart.
Other applications can read the EPS data properly. Xara Designer Pro being used hee in the screen shot. It is only reading the EPS data, it cannot read the AI private data section (nothing can as far as I know).
So before you spout off your wisdom from on high and put others down, get your facts in order. Alternately, go ahead and spout the wisdom...just do it without the air of superiority and putting others down.
Further to how CD is mucking up the gradients in this EPS file, here's some screen shots.
In AI, the gradient has 4 stops. I should have also selected the gradient tool so you could see on the object that the radial gradient starts in the dark circle and extends out past the object's bounds. But you can see that in the XDP screen shot as they are identical anyway...
In XDP, there are 4 stops...
And now here is how CD interprets the radial gradient. 2 stops, and a bit "compressed" as to its diameter.
And BTW, none of the color at the stops for CD's radial gradient are remotely correct by way of comparing both AI and XDP.
What I should have said is that only an application with an AI filter can read the files. Try this change the EPS to and AI and try and open it in CD with the AI filter, may be too old but it might work. You can't open an AI EPS without the AI EPS filter, period.
CD looks for a proper Postscript Compliant file, Xara like many low cost apps use the AI interpreter because so many users improperly create Adobe AI EPS. Makes many users think the app is better because of it however one the file is converted your stuck with the short coming if any of that file format. The practice of incorrect EPS and PDF files is rampant. In pre-presswork I see it all the time, massive color shifts flows, incorrect transparency and fountain fills are common.
I generally Distill eps files and import the PDF to get rid of crap EPS files.
David,
Did you try distilling either directly with Distiller or right-clicking on a file and having Acrobat create a PDF, and then loading the file into CD? You will get the same result. Yes, the AI version works properly.
But the point is that CD's EPS import does not work with this file. The EPS file is pre-AI private data. It is an version 8 file. There is nothing special about it.
CD does a fine job on the lineal gradients in the file. Just not on the radial ones.
You really need to know what it is you are writing about in regards to other applications. XDP is using its generic EPS filter for the import. The fact is that its library is simply better in this instance than the one that Corel is using.
I assume that Corel uses the LEADTOOLS library as does Serif. In both company's applications this exact same problem occurs: Smaller radius radial gradients and the exact same incorrect colors applied to the same 2 stops. So I suspect it is a LEADTOOLS issue.
I have no idea if you bothered to download this ZIP of 4 EPS files and tried to distill or otherwise open the file. If you do download it, it is the #2 version.
I stripped out the bitmap data from the EPS file. I could upload that for you. Pure (Adobe) EPS. Corel doesn't like importing it, but it works on the second attempt. Still the wrong radial gradients, though.
Take care, Mike