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?
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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