We have four Corel X6. All on Win7 64bit.
When using Publish to PDF we need to keep our name on the colour CutContour. This works perfect on three pc's but on one pc, name is CutContour in Corel but on PDF it is renamed to C0 M100 Y100 K1. As I mentioned it works perfect on 3 other machines. In PDF settings I use Native colour. I guess it must be in PDF settings under colour. But settings seems to be the same.. Any Idea?
Gennady said this was due to be fixed in the X6.4 update, but I have not tested it since then.
If you are using X6.4 and it is still not working, see http://community.coreldraw.com/forums/p/39946/196244.aspx#196244 where I posted a way to edit the palette to make it work in the meantime.
But I'd suggest first that you test with a new document first, because a document created in an earlier version of X6 might possibly already contain a confusing value in the document palette. Also create a new spot colour instead of relying on a spot colour you created earlier.
sorry but i have just install x6.4 and i have the problems!
Make sure you are creating custom spot color correctly:
1. In your custom palette go to "Edit Color" command, the Palette Editor dialog will appear2. Click "Add color" button, the Select Color dialog will appear3. Select Models tab, define color values in whatever model you need ( e.g. CMYK 0 100 100 1)4. Hit "Ok", you will get back to Palette Editor dialog. 5. At this moment you have new process (CMYK) color added to your palette with the name "C0 M100 Y100 K1" and components "C:0 M:100 Y:100 K:1".6. Change the Name of the color to whatever name you need for your spot color, e.g. "CutContour"7. Change Treat as: control from "Process" to "Spot"8 Hit OK
It is critical to do first 6 then 7. The spot color in the palette is created the moment you flip Treat as: control to "Spot", because spot colors are defined inside of the palette, they can not exists on their own.
Most likely what you do is first 7, then 6. By doing this you are first creating spot color named "C0 M100 Y100 K1", which you immediately rename to "CutCountour" but its definition is already created and set to "C0 M100 Y100 K1". What you end up with is "C0 M100 Y100 K1" spot color with "CutContour" alias name. It is spot color definition name that is written into PDF, your cutter expects "CutCountour" but the name in PDF is "C0 M100 Y100 K1". How the cutter recognizes the cut line somewhat depends on the device and its driver, most devices with PostScript drivers are looking for particular spot color name ( e.g. "CutCountour") it does not matter how the spot color is defined (what palette values it has) - the LAb vs CMYK values are irrelevant then. Some other devices ( and ALL devices that use non-PostScript driver) rely on particular color values to trigger cutline ( you can not send spot colors to non-PS driver, all you can send is RGB).
As harryLondon mentioned we did have similar problem with EPS output, it has been fixed in 6.4. Unfortunately, not in PDF. Regardless of the output fix, however, the root issue here is the way one creates spot color - e.g. the CutCountour color from Roland VersWorks palette we ship would work both in PDF and EPS. You can either delete and recreate your custom spot color making sure you follow the steps outlined above, or you can edit the XML palette file directly ( follow the link provided by harryLondon above).
Gennady