Hello
I'm occasionally using CD X4 just for fun (so i'm not that experienced). My friend who has a digital printer, once printed one of my designs but there were stripes (like you have when there's little ink in a printer) only in gradient filled areas When i fill a shape with gradient colors, i also see these stripes on my screen (when i look very close) in CD and also in pdf when i export the file. What can i do? Thank you. david from belgium
One option is to Print the Document as a Bitmap.
I believe it's called Rasterize in CorelDRAW X4.
Another option is to increase the Fountain Steps. With the shape selected, press F11 to bring up the fill dialog. Change the input field for steps to a higher value.
Hey Adrian!
I increased the filling steps and decreased the rastering resolution (both in the Misc tab of the printing menu)
This seems to work.
Thanx for making me think!
cheers david
FYI, increasing the fill steps doesn't necessarily enhance the result. In fact it may even make it worse.
You see when the padlock is closed (steps box is greyed out) Draw creates the fill by specifying only the end colors (and mid colors, if any) and the printer/RIP recreates the fill with as many steps as it possibly can.By setting a specific number of steps, you limit the fill to that number, but in reality it may not be 999 even if that's what you've set it to be. In fact it may be very few steps, depending on which colors are in the fill.I've seen this myself when I printed a sign with a large dark brown radial fill. The black color in the fill only permitted 20 steps (K70 to K90) even though I had it set to 999. By locking it I got a much better result.