Will the real working space stand up

The primary color mode is not a working space in such that it changes your working spaces, it only controls the default palettes that CorelDRAW will display when selecting colors, it changes how the application renders transparency as well as other color oriented effects. The 3 document color spaces still tag the file contents.

The real mind binder is that CorelDRAW can actually work in 4 color spaces, RGB, Grayscale, CMYK and N (spot color) simultaneously including transparency.

And the real killer, while it works in 4 color spaces it can soft proof in a 5th color space.

Like I said CorelDRAW is a professional graphics application, it is not Illustrator or Xara.

It is the only application with a live high resolution preview in 3 color spaces.

Phil1923 said:

Will the real working space stand up.

All is well.  Here's how to choose the "working" space in DRAW.  That's the space used by the tools in DRAW or any other graphics editor.  Its displayed as best as can be by the monitor using the information from a profile from DRAW to the Profile Connection Space (Lab or XYZ) to the monitors profile (plus a ton of stuff in the graphics card) to what you see on the monitor.

Yes, you're right. Or at least, almost right. That's the color mode you choose for use. This is how CorelDRAW will try to show the colors (the information of the graphic card andthe monitot), following the rules you choosed (for example, the rendering intent and the color profile). In other words, CMYK is a generic concept. If oyu choose "Perceptual" as rendering intent you will see some colors different. If you choose ISO coated v2 or ISOUncoated you will se also some color different, alhough all are CMYK, and all are working under the same monitor, graphic card, etc

Phil1923 said:

It's cleverly disguised under a special Corel name.  I would guess that the additional two documents in different modes are obtained by using the appropriate profiles.  It's beyond belief that you can "work" in three color modes at the very same time.

Since you can't work on RGB, CMYK and grayscale at the same time, you should choose one (note that you can choose only betwen, RGB or CMYK, you can't use grayscale or Lab). But the advantadge of CorelDRAW is the option for preserve the original color profile of each image. Then, if you import a RGB image on a CMYK document (that means, if you choose CMYK as primary color mode). And more than this, you can use spot colors such as Pantone colors. The Pantone is internally displayed as Lab, but on the color space is not RGB nor CMYK. Yes, you see it on RGB (the entire monitor is RGB) but the output will be different than RGB, grayscale or RGB. One of the biggest advantadges of CorelDRAW is to allow the simultaneous use of different color profiles to the same file at the same time.