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.
No, I only send files for print (last 15 to 20 years) as PDF to RIP driven devices, even for proofing. For ink jet mostly postscript RIPS that support PDF importation, some are level 2 but mostly level 3 postscript.
The last 5 years there are more RIPS for ink jets are true PDF RIPS. Meaning that it actually process as PDF and are capable of full support for live transparency.
All my press work for years has gone to true PDF RIPS, mostly Global Graphics, Agfa and Heidelberg RIPS.
I've got to check this out.
I tested the fountain fill with my local printer and the setting of 256 or 999 looked and printed identical. I'll test the RIP tomorrow but I've not had any of the output technicians complain.
With that said the default black color is a CMYK build now not just K100 and white was a C1.
I have a pre 2019 file I use to test fountain fill conversion and PDF output it's too big for the forum. send a PM with an email and I'll send the CDR and the PDF to test. Onyx Thrive, RasterLynk Pro should not have any issues.
Bobby Henderson said:But I don't trust the application for creating PDF and EPS files to send to Onyx Thrive or RasterLink Pro
I have left the Steps checkbox unchecked since I had the dark-brown-fountain-fill-disaster more than ten years ago, and I can not say that I have noticed any banding whatsoever, neither from RasterLink (used it for many years and until recently) nor Onyx (current RIP). I always go via PDF.My guess is that no matter how screwed up the fill settings may be in the last versions, as long as we send to a postscript printer, the outcome will be as expected.I.e. a fill going from color A to B will be rendered with as many steps as the printer can handle.
What you cannot do is open and print your CDR or exported CDR file to another application. Corel transparency and complex fills will only work through PDF and some as EPS in RIP devices.
Non postscript printers rasterize the content to 96 DPI sRGB, postscript devices need to be true Adobe level 3 devices.