Why CorelDRAW still haven't tool for showing excess of TIL, like in InDesign?
p.s. and still no life separation preview in document :(
Is it such unnecessary thing for all here?
Sancho said:Is it such unnecessary thing for all here?
Sancho, you are more advanced than many... ;-)
Part of the reason is that you are curious to know the finest details of digital prepress, and use Coreldraw in the capacity as a tradesman instead of as a casual user.
Hi Sancho,
the funny thing is, we do have a readout in Photo-Paint in the Info Docker:
Hi again Sancho,
In Photo-Paint and Photoshop you get a TIC reading as you move your Eyedropper over the image. How does it work in InDesign? Does it look at the entire image and find the highest value(s) in Vector objects? I believe it only works with vectors in InDesign and ignores bitmaps. It would be fairly easy for you to write a macro to do this in CorelDraw. Maybe you could do so using the "Create Palette from Document" feature; you could then get the macro to read through all the colours in that palette and advise which one's are above a TIC value input by the user. What do you think?
Best regards,Brian.
One other thing, I am pretty sure David Milisock said that if you use the correct colour profile it will limit the TIC to 300 (or whatever value, depending on the profile), so maybe it is not such a big deal anyway. I guess it may give a slightly better output if you manually control the Ink Coverage rather than relying on a profile to do so? I know very little about this type of thing, maybe David can educate me?