Why CorelDRAW still haven't tool for showing excess of TIL, like in InDesign?
p.s. and still no life separation preview in document :(
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?
The question is not why does Corel not have it, the question is why would you want it in an ICC compliant color managed application? I have it in ID CS5 and it's just plian useless. Not to mention the ID previes when set at its best is poor.
Example you working on a project that's for a web press with a TIC (total ink coverage) 260, you set your document color management to a proper CMYK profile. You also set Photo-PAINT to the proper cmyk profile and convert all images to that cmyk profile and place as cmyk.
The preview is soft proofing the CMYK, the file will be converted to the tic, (images will be left alone) and in reality the only affected color will be deep shadows of color (black). This is what color management was meant to do.
The problem with using application ink limts is as in this example, you want blue text, C100 M100. In a CM situation you create the CM 100 and the CM system creates solid blue and magenta on paper. If you do this in the application you get screened values for theblue text A BAD IDEA.
For what is need? LOL. It's elementary, Watson :)
For example about prepress. A lot of files from designers who just don't know what is color profile. They make their design just in default settings. For example I have a lot of these files. And have to place them in my newspaper. I have to look in each file and find all colors with total inc more than 260. It's easy for vector with my CdrPreflight macro, but I can't do it for bitmap. More, I can't convert a document to my profile because I lose other color values.
For me InDesign is really fast way to find problems in these files.
p.s. a print lab will be print my file as is. They will not to convert it or do something else. They just print it with my cmyk values.
p.s.s. This is not a big terrible problem :) It's just my suggestion for X6 or higher.I tell it because people often ask about it on my and other forum about DRAW.