Hello everybody,
sometimes I get or create a file in CorelDraw (2023) that has colors other than spot colors and "nameless" RGB colors, so have a name in the status bar at the bottom when you click on a shape. Normally for normal RGB colors you then can see for a shape e.g. the RGB values in the status bar (and everywhere else of course). But in some cases when someone had created a color palette with color names (but NOT spot colors) then this name appears in the status bar - but nowhere else.
So my question is if this color names are also appearing somewhere else in CorelDraw than the status bar and if I can change them (or if this is about definition, also the definition from name colors to normal RGB value colors) ?
I just would prefer to deliver files with just the normal RGB colors without any name.
thank you!
Ok I found out that when I drag the color with name into a color style and then after that just delete the color style again, then the color of the shape is just shown as normal RGB values without name. Should be an ok solution?
Well, when I do that in my last post then all colors are shown as normal RGB or CMYK values, no names.
But: in the document properties under the shapes colors, although I have deleted directly ALL color styles, now CorelDraw insists and still says all my shapes are of the color of a color style. For example 75 objects, 75 are shown as RGB in the document properties, but all 75 are also shown there under color palette as "color style palette" (in German).
Where is this definition saved in CorelDraw whether a color of a shape is a normal chosen color or a named color or a color style color, and why does CorelDraw still show this even after I deleted the color styles?
even more when I close and open the CDR again then the named colors that had disappeared from the status bar are back again!
So my workaround with the color style does not work around.
where is this information saved then?
PS: after all when I look into the document properties, at least I only see now 75 objects in "RGB", so no palette colors anymore (no named colors, no color style palette colors). I still see the color name in the status bar, but maybe this is because I have still the color palette with the named colors "active" in CorelDraw and always when CorelDraw detects a color with fitting RGB values then it shows the name in the status bar.
Perhaps final question then: when under document properties no palette and no spot colors are shown, jts RGB color objects, are there then only RGB colors in there although the status bar may show the name of a named color (not spot color)?
I've looked at palettes waaay back in the version 12 days and followed through when X3, X4 were the last of the old application color management versions. Then came X5 and document level color management, and sometime between X5 and X8 the document color palette was introduced and that took a couple versions to resolve issues with it.
The problems of Draw allowing the user to incorrectly build a palette with commercial colors was handled with the document palette. If my memory serves the naming structure of the colors was one of the things that had to be corrected. This was because improperly naming color caused internal and putput conversion issues.
You may be able to name the colors in the document palette and save a document palette to a different palette name and bring that into Draw.
Draw is retaining the color name in the objects internal code.
thank you. I just made a test and saw that when I choose another named color from an existing Corel palette like SVG colors, then the name is shown of course in the status bar. But in this case I can actually use my workaround that I create color styles and delete them again, and then the color name of the SVG palette (and in the properties) is not shown anymore in the status bar.
But when I choose a color that I named myself (as I work a lot with colors and create my own palettes, so created by my own) and choose this color coming from a personal palette "My palettes" then this workaround does not work. So then the named color is always being displayed in the status bar even after "deleting" it by interim creating a color style.
So CorelDraw seems to handle named colors differently depending on personal palette or not. After all I would consider it a small bug as it should be possible to change a named color to a nameless RGB color.