I just had a simple task to convert my CMYK project to four pantone print which now is really tedious. I had this CMYK filled object, then i click on fill on status bar, then i go for spot colors. And now theres a bug: if you happen to have any colors in your document palette then clicking on a triangle next to "Spot" palettes (i wanted to convert to Solid Coated v3) to fold out actually changes to Document Palette and changes object color to first color form document palette. Trying to change color to pantone from Color Docker is even worse as it becomes unresponsive. can anyone confirm such behaviour?
Animisiewasz said:I just had a simple task to convert my CMYK project to four pantone print which now is really tedious. I had this CMYK filled object, then i click on fill on status bar, then i go for spot colors.
I see the same behavior when trying to navigate to select a Spot color palette. I agree; it's very tedious now.
When you do this sort of CMYK-to-Pantone conversion, are you just allowing CorelDRAW to find what it thinks is the "best match" from the palette? The reason I ask is that, for simple uniform fills and fountain fills, that's something that might be automated fairly easily with a small VBA macro.
Yes, basically i allow Corel to do conversion first, then i take out my Pantone Guide, check what those colors actually look like and if they'e not the match for me i hand pick from the Guide and apply it to object desired. I know that macro would do this for me but it was basic funcionality in Corel that was working ok in previous versions. It's not like i do it very often but still a serious UI problem
To be clear, I am not making any excuses for Corel on this. What you are trying to do should be no more difficult in 2019 than it was in 2018 - but they have seriously messed up that part of the UI.
I mentioned the possibility of using a macro because that might be useful if you did a lot of this type of conversion.
Here's an example where I use a macro to convert the uniform fills and the fountain fills of the ten rectangles from CMYK to a specific Pantone palette. I'm using the last selected object as a way of specifying the "convert to" palette.
VIDEO: convert to palette
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