Hi all. I have a 13 of pages of paragraph text. The text fill is black (RGB 0,0,0) throughout. No pen outline. No graphics. However, the Document Palette shows four wells - none, RGB 0,0,0, CMYK100 and RGB 0,0,0 (again). I usually only have the 'none' well showing. I have no idea what the others are referring to. How do I find out?
Shelley
The Document palette is sometimes behaving a bit odd, and may for example show multiple swatches or colors that don't appear to be in the document at all.Possible that it works better in X7, but to be honest I stopped using it in X6 because it was of very little value to me since it was not working as I expected.
Shelly, left click on the arrow button (next to the dropper), in the Document Palette. This will bring up a menu, select Palette->Reset Palette. This will eliminate all the colors in your Document Palette and then refill with colors only found in your document.
When you create a design and you use a color on an object, the color goes into the Document Palette. If you change the object's color from one color to another, the (change) color is also added to the Document Palette, so you end up with another color well for each color change you do on an object.
Haj, Ronny! Ok, noted. It would explain things.
Hi, Hugh. This doesn't work. I selected all text and changed it to blue, then back to black. A blue well then appears, even though the palette in not set on Automatic. I reset the palette as you suggest, but the blue well is still there. So, it's remembering what used to be there, which is pointless and annoying. I'm beginning to believe Ronny, at this point, that it's just buggered! I assume I've imported text with these other Black settings and it's just remembering them. If I cut and paste the entire text unto a new document, it cleans it up and I only get the None" well (and interestingly, it only creates 10 pages, not 13).
You'd have thought the history would add KB's to the file - but the new file is actually 3KB's bigger!
Shelly, the Palette Reset should work. This is the first time that I heard of that the palette does not clear to only colors of the objects. It may be time for an F8 reset.
F8? So, Ronny was right. OK, thanks, Hugh, but I think I'd rather set fire to Corel HQ and take the consequences! Too much customisation on the UI and life's too short to start again. I think I'll just live with it and wait for v20, my next update. Thanks for your help.