Hi all. I have a 13 of pages of paragraph text. The text fill is black (RGB 0,0,0) throughout. No pen outline. No graphics. However, the Document Palette shows four wells - none, RGB 0,0,0, CMYK100 and RGB 0,0,0 (again). I usually only have the 'none' well showing. I have no idea what the others are referring to. How do I find out?
Shelley
The Document palette is sometimes behaving a bit odd, and may for example show multiple swatches or colors that don't appear to be in the document at all.Possible that it works better in X7, but to be honest I stopped using it in X6 because it was of very little value to me since it was not working as I expected.
Haj, Ronny! Ok, noted. It would explain things.
Hi, Hugh. This doesn't work. I selected all text and changed it to blue, then back to black. A blue well then appears, even though the palette in not set on Automatic. I reset the palette as you suggest, but the blue well is still there. So, it's remembering what used to be there, which is pointless and annoying. I'm beginning to believe Ronny, at this point, that it's just buggered! I assume I've imported text with these other Black settings and it's just remembering them. If I cut and paste the entire text unto a new document, it cleans it up and I only get the None" well (and interestingly, it only creates 10 pages, not 13).
You'd have thought the history would add KB's to the file - but the new file is actually 3KB's bigger!
Shelly, the Palette Reset should work. This is the first time that I heard of that the palette does not clear to only colors of the objects. It may be time for an F8 reset.
F8? So, Ronny was right. OK, thanks, Hugh, but I think I'd rather set fire to Corel HQ and take the consequences! Too much customisation on the UI and life's too short to start again. I think I'll just live with it and wait for v20, my next update. Thanks for your help.
Shelly, I too, ignore the document palette. I have not found a true use for it.
FWIW, I have not paid attention to its behavior in X7 release of the Suite. So I am not aware of the misbehavior of it.
If you add a color from text, soemtimes you will find an unwanted color. For example, if you create a black text and change color to red, than add it to the Document Palette, we expect to add only "red" since the black is not longer used. But sometimes, the text add the black color anyway. And yes, you can have more than one "RGB black" although it seems to be the same.
Hugh Johnson said:Shelly, I too, ignore the document palette. I have not found a true use for it.
The use is relative to the job. For example, when I work with Mesh Fill, I need to use some colors on more than one instance. The color palette allows me to have the colors I need, what it was very difficult on older versions
Ariel said:The color palette allows me to have the colors I need
Ariel, I take your point, but what use is it if it adds colours you don't want and then can't get rid of? Besides, if I want a colour pallette, I can create a custom one. Yes, it's more time-consuming but it can then be used across other documents.
I found a solution - turn the Document Palette off!