Dear Forum Members,
I have EPS art that displays with vibrant colors when I view the art in either IrfranView or Adobe Illustrator. However, when I import the same art into CorelDraw X6 all the colors display as dull and not at all vibrant like the other two apps.
Obviously, it's a color management issue. I have spent 1 hour tweaking Corel Draw Color Management setting with no success. I thought changing all "Import and Paste Settings" to "Use Embedded Color Profile" would do the trick however dull colors still persist.
In short, I would really welcome anyone out there who knows how to correctly adjust Corel Draw X6 colors to post in this thread. My goal is to get Corel Draw X6 colors to match what I see in IrfranView and Adobe Illustrator.
Thank you in advance for any help.
This is the same art as low res png I opened the original file in illustrator cs6 saved it as an illustrator eps The dialogue box in illustrator says converted when saved.
I then imported it into CorelDraw x6 the original eps I suspect this was originally saved as illustrator macintosh a long time ago
There is no transparency in the file. Not that I clicked on all 7 billion objects. It is just that CD cannot cope with something as simple as (mainly) the radial gradients in this half-ancient EPS file.
Which is why resaving as a PDF or as an AI file works.
What I should have said is that only an application with an AI filter can read the files. Try this change the EPS to and AI and try and open it in CD with the AI filter, may be too old but it might work. You can't open an AI EPS without the AI EPS filter, period.
CD looks for a proper Postscript Compliant file, Xara like many low cost apps use the AI interpreter because so many users improperly create Adobe AI EPS. Makes many users think the app is better because of it however one the file is converted your stuck with the short coming if any of that file format. The practice of incorrect EPS and PDF files is rampant. In pre-presswork I see it all the time, massive color shifts flows, incorrect transparency and fountain fills are common.
I generally Distill eps files and import the PDF to get rid of crap EPS files.
David,
Did you try distilling either directly with Distiller or right-clicking on a file and having Acrobat create a PDF, and then loading the file into CD? You will get the same result. Yes, the AI version works properly.
But the point is that CD's EPS import does not work with this file. The EPS file is pre-AI private data. It is an version 8 file. There is nothing special about it.
CD does a fine job on the lineal gradients in the file. Just not on the radial ones.
You really need to know what it is you are writing about in regards to other applications. XDP is using its generic EPS filter for the import. The fact is that its library is simply better in this instance than the one that Corel is using.
I assume that Corel uses the LEADTOOLS library as does Serif. In both company's applications this exact same problem occurs: Smaller radius radial gradients and the exact same incorrect colors applied to the same 2 stops. So I suspect it is a LEADTOOLS issue.
I have no idea if you bothered to download this ZIP of 4 EPS files and tried to distill or otherwise open the file. If you do download it, it is the #2 version.
I stripped out the bitmap data from the EPS file. I could upload that for you. Pure (Adobe) EPS. Corel doesn't like importing it, but it works on the second attempt. Still the wrong radial gradients, though.
Take care, Mike
Ok mikewe the answer is in your own post. Here's a, lesson in black box theory, Adobe Acrobat Distiller has one job, that job is to make PDF files from Adobe postscript compliant files. As you say Distiller CANNOT PROCESS this file correctly, that is because it is NOT an Adobe compliant postscript file.
Adobe Illustrator can properly open the file, why? It can because it is an ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR compliant EPS file.
InDesign will place the EPS file, it previews in the RIP ok but outputs incorrectly.
Once saved as an AI file CorelDRAW opens the file and outputs correctly.
CorelDRAW cannot place the EPS file correctly because CorelDRAW DOES NOT SUPPORT (for the most part) placing postscript files that are non-compliant with the Adobe rules of postscript.
GOOD because I don't want this EPS trash screwing up my output.
Hence, only applications that have Adobe Illustrator compliant EPS filters can open this file. The applications say all that is pertinent to this subject except one thing. That is will the applications that open these EPS file produce proper output files?
It must really get lonely up on that pinnacle of knowledge. You haven't really read what I wrote, or I miscommunicated and or you don't understand the point. And it is bloody obvious that your knowledge of EPS files is a bit on the narrow side.
Tell you what, seeing how you don't seem to be following the point well, I have attached a ZIP file. In this ZIP file you will find a CDR file. Why don't you export it as an EPS file, then import that EPS that CorelDraw X7 exported?
So the point to all this blathering is that CorelDraw absolutely cannot deal with radial gradients in EPS files correctly. Not even ones it generates. Heck, it cannot even generate that radial gradient spiral correctly, much less read it back in correctly.
Export that file as a PDF, get it into AI, export out as any version of EPS, any level of EPS, and import that into CD. Acceptable, but the spiral with a simple two-stop radial gradient needs fixed. Add a third stop and all heck breaks in CD.
Now, I am sorry if you cannot accept this. Perhaps it is because I am a software agnostic that flaws in others' beloved software are easy enough for me to admit they are there.
Mikewe, you seem to be going over the edge. EPS, was never intended to be a round trip filter set in CorelDRAW. Exporting to an EPS at the time it was developed was and is now still intended only as an output format and with the current evolution of software a very limited one at best.
Importing an EPS was and is limited and is not intended for editing high end effects between applications. It seems to be as good as Distiller but in today's world limited, but with all the EPS files around like the ones you posted I don't want Corel to have an AI EPS importation filter.
I say this because with postscript output CD simply passes the imported EPS along so the output would be bad even with a good display. Also some people set the PDF output to pass along postscript, again bad output, even if the display is ok. Those days are gone and good riddance!
Now the fountain fill sets between the two applications are different and if you would have understood my post you would understand that for nearly 20 years I have been writing that importing files from CD to AI or visa versa that contain fountain fills, transparency, blends and many other effects does not work. Like I said apples and peaches, in fact I contend that it may intentionally be left that way.
CorelDRAW is CorelDRAW and Illustrator is Illustrator and the above effects DON'T WORK between the two applications.
The EPS files you posted are not Adobe compliant EPS files, they are opened properly only with an Illustrator compliant EPS filter, CorelDRAW does not support that. The best AI importation into CorelDRAW I've seen is via the AI file format ands exists in X7, but still limited by the applications effects sets.
The files you posted need to be opened in AI, saved as AI format then placed into CD and published to PDF for output.
You're whining about one effect which is 1/100th of 1% of the workflow, try making a 40' wide x 10' high trade show display in high resolution with overlapping transparency, small type, blends and in three color models in Adobe products or Xara, a simple gradient will be the least of your problems.