Hi all! I’m having a problem with the gradient fill in draw. If I do a horizontal gradient every thing is fine. It looks fine on the screen, it prints fine and it subs fine. If I do a vertical gradient it has lines across it. It prints that way and it subs that way. I’ve tried changing settings but I can’t get it to stop. Btw...this has been this way in previous versions of Corel draw as well.
I use the default settings, latest PDF setting and my fountain fills are always as smooth as a baby's butt.
Changing the default setting from what I've experienced always screws fountain fills up.
I also only ever use CorelDRAW fountain fills in CorelDRAW or digital front end output applications.
Thank you everyone! I changed the steps to 999 and made it a smooth transition. The screen looks fine. It printed funky but subbed ok. I pretty much only sub on ribbon or glitter htv. I’m not sure what will happen if I sub on FRP bag tags but I usually design those with solid colors. I guess I’ll worry about that if and when the times comes. Again....thank you!!!
Do you ever print directly from CorelDRAW to something like a desktop printer or office laser printer? I see the worst banding with gradients in CorelDRAW with that approach. It's a little more hit and miss when exporting files that will be printed later. Your setup might work just fine, but your experience does not apply to everyone else.
OMG, it looks as they have managed to break yet another feature completely.This is how I believe it should work, and also did some versions ago:There is a global setting in Options > CorelDRAW > Display called "Preview Fountain Steps".This setting controls how fills are rendered on screen but should not affect how they are exported or printed. It should not affect Print Preview either.Then there is the fill specific setting in the Edit Fill dialog that controls how many steps a fill will have when exported and printed, and if this is left unchecked, the fill will be exported and printed with an "unlimited" number of steps.Therefore, leaving it unchecked should, theoretically, always create the best result.(FWIW, the greyed out value in this box seems to be picked up from the "Preview Fountain Steps" setting.)But now, in the last versions, there seems to be a connection between these two "steps" settings, and there is also some kind of lag when a setting is changed, that creates unpredictable results.I have not been able to figure out exactly how it works but I have made prints that showed terrible banding when they shouldn't, and Print Preview is also wrong.
That's why I called it "hit and miss" in another response. I've grown to where I just leave the CorelDRAW fountain fill setting left at their default setting. I don't really care if I see banding in a sketch I sent to our office laser printer to print on ordinary letter-sized paper. But I don't trust the application for creating PDF and EPS files to send to Onyx Thrive or RasterLink Pro (the two large format RIPs we use for our Latex printers and flatbed printer). I tend to have better luck exporting the CorelDRAW artwork in Adobe Illustrator AI CS6 format and using Illustrator CC to make PDF or EPS files to print.