Hi everybody,
is there a way to have Corel Draw X4 automatically convert all RGB colors into CYMK? I've a very complicated clipart and all colors are RGB; I don't want to convert the clipart into a bitmap to change the color mode.
Thanks,
Brute-Fish said:John, Can I just replace CMYK with RGB in the script to create a second conversion for web use?
Hi.
Yes. But, unfortunately the automatic color conversion doesn't seem to work as well as it does for cmyk => rgb
-John
Ok here is a way that makes it easy but may seem odd. Import your clip art and export only it as an EPS file and set the colors to CMYK and then import the resulting EPS file.
Genius!
I'll give it a try, but I bet it's faster than the "regular" way.
Re: el nino,
I realize this may not be the best forum thread for this question, but except for the version of CorelDRAW, the topic is very close.
I'm an amateur graphic artist using CorelDRAW 2017 occasionally in my practice as an Architect. My graphics work involves grabbing bits and pieces of vector files, raster files, PDFs, CDR files, and text from various sources to insert and create each new graphic document. This results in a mixture of RGB and CMYK within the document. If I want to print at a printer, they want it in CMYK so I need to convert the document to CMYK.
When using the above wizard, el nino mentions above, I go through all the layers in the Object Manager, for all the pages and unlock, show (unhide), and enable printing for all the layers. Then I run the wizard, once for fills and once for outlines. Each time after I click on FINISH, a new Find and Replace window displays and if I click on Find All, a message displays saying "One or more of the objects you want to find are within groups. "Find All" cannot select objects that are within groups. Would you like to ungroup these groups?"
It makes sense for me to say yes, and I do. I do want to convert everything to CMYK.
When I click on YES, CorelDRAW then does something seemingly endlessly. After 15 minutes I "end the program"
Any Thoughts?
Do I need to go through this process for every page of the document?
If I plan to use the graphic document as an image on a web site or for projection for a presentation I suppost I should convert to RGB? This would give better colors, right?
Any help or thoughts appreciated.
Best Wishes.
You don't need to do such work. Just go to Publish to PDF, choose "CMYK" as color mode, and send it to the printer company. Check if your color profile is right, and if you need to add cropmarks, bleed, etc, (ask company for this)