Now that I am getting fairly adept at basic Corel Draw designing - I have a couple of nagging issues that I want to follow up on.
I asked this question last year. (paraphrasing) ..... Can I select on object outside the print page and print it out by using the "print selection" option in the dialogue box.
The answer I got was no.
A lot of my preliminary artwork is in CMYK. After I am done the final artwork is in RGB and I move it to the print page to print.
I usually select everything on the print page and hit the "print selection only" option in the dialogue box. This seems to load the image faster and prints faster.
If I forget to hit the "print selection only" option and it defaults to the "print page" or print document" option ... I always get a warning in the print preview pane "your drawing has CMYK colors in it.
This is true if the printer is reading the entire workbook page - but if it can only print what is on the printable page (RGB only) - then why is it scanning the entire workspace and picking up the CMYK colors?
Or I can ask it this way - why does the coreldraw printer driver scan the entire workbook when it can only print what is on the printable page?
The other nagging question - I can't seem to get the outline tool to default to RGB.... it always defalutls to CMYK and I have to go to the RGB color palette and right click to get the outline color to RGB. Bugs the hell out of me so any help there is also appreciated.
dmyster
dmyster said:I asked this question last year. (paraphrasing) ..... Can I select on object outside the print page and print it out by using the "print selection" option in the dialogue box.
dmyster said:The answer I got was no.
The answer could be, "yes" if the selected objects are on a layer that is set to be printable.
You still might have to do something to get the selected objects to be on the printed page. Look at the Layout tab in the Print Options dialog for some "Image position and size" options for positioning the content relative to the printed page.
Another option for that sort of positioning would be to use Print Preview, then click and drag the content to change the positioning.
Hi Eskimo,
The layer is printable. I have succummed to the fact that Corel Draw is limited in printable area unlike my other inexpensive graphics program which isn;t.
Just trying to figure out why the printer scans the entire document page when it can only print the printable page.
Dmyster
dmyster said:The layer is printable. I have succummed to the fact that Corel Draw is limited in printable area unlike my other inexpensive graphics program which isn;t.
In my personal experience, CorelDRAW is not limited to only printing content that lies within the page borders in Draw. As I noted in my earlier post, you would have to use some options in the print dialog to get the outside-the-page-borders content to be positioned on the printed page.
"Reposition artwork to", set to "Center of page", is one option that can be useful for that sort of task:
Holy cow.... you are right... THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU.
This is going to make it so much easier for me as I end up printing various areas of the document page every day. Now I don't have to duplicate everything and then place image on printable page - then move it off the page and duplicate the next image and place on page....
Keep in mind - several people told me you can't do it.
If your in San Diego some time - dinner is on me.
Now..... cmyk outline?...... Need to re-evaluate with the ability to print off page but - this morning I printed something on the printable page.... I forgot to select "print selection only" therefore it read the entire document and I got this pop up. The image on the page was RGB 000. I added an outline in my work area which be default always comes up cmyk. I duplicated the image (so I don't mess up the original) and moved it to the printable page. I converted the outline to RGB. I went to print and forgot to select the "print selection only" and I got this warning.
So... yes the printer does scan the entire document even though the the printer dialogue was option "reposition to center of page" was not selected.
I still need to make the outline default RGB.
This is my default setting. Do you see anything in here that would make the text outlines cmyk defalult?
dmyster said:I still need to make the outline default RGB.
When new objects are created in a document, they get their properties from specific styles. You can find those styles under the Default Object Properties in the Styles docker.
See this thread - Undo permanent change to rectangle - to find some discussion with screenshots. That includes some comments about how one of those styles can be changed in the current document, and how that information can be used to change what the Default Object Properties when new documents are created using the "Create a New Document" dialog. You can also export and import those styles.
When using the "Create a New Document" dialog, CorelDRAW has available two different sources for the styles that control Default Object Properties. One is for RGB, and the other is for CMYK.
If you are creating a new document with RGB as the primary color mode, then it may be the case that you unintentionally "pushed" CMYK Default Object Properties information into the location that gets used for new RGB documents. That is not very hard to do.
This information is stored in the workspace. So, the Default Object Properties that you get when creating an RGB or CMYK document can be different, depending on the workspace that you are using at that time.