We have both CorelDraw X4 and X7.
We often are required to color match a vehicle when doing wraps. The process we use is to pick the closest swatch from the Pantone chart then create a series of 3" squares with several different color formulas around that color. We label each with the color formula and keep them in a box for future reference. It can be time consuming to label each square and too easy to mislabel them. Would be great if I could just marquee select them all and hit a macro to automatically label them. Anyone know of such a macro? I know about the "CreateColorSwatch" macro but that prints your "palette" not your selection.
Myron
Myron said:The process we use is to pick the closest swatch from the Pantone chart then create a series of 3" squares with several different color formulas around that color. Would be great if I could just marquee select them all and hit a macro to automatically label them. Anyone know of such a macro?
X4 and X7 in the same workflow, color wise that's a tricky process.
I like it but not the labeling part. We chop out the squares individually so a square labeled as 1 ,2,3 does me no good. Also that's a lot of prints. I can usually nail the color down with just a few squares. Plus I like to pick my own CMYK or RGB values. Labels would also be inside the squares.
My advice to you is to make a move to X7 due to the fact that Pantone has settled on LAB for the conversion process and now that Adobe has caught up by adopting LAB all applications use it. Going forward your conversions as far as the electronic aspect goes will be stabilized.