Turning some Pantone colors to Black!

Hi friends

I created a design file in Corel X7 and I used some pantone color in that. After doing the design and saving that, when i open the file again some Pantones turn to BLACK! 

What must i do to see my Pantone colors again?

Best regards.

Vahid

  • Hi Did you solve this problem by any chance. I also still suffer from this and it is extremely aggravating

    thanks in advance.
    • that was a problem when you use old Palettes color, and it's supposed that it was solved with the Updades. have you installed the Updates?
      • Ariel, we've been experiencing this same phenomenon.

        I created a boat graphic using my CorelDRAW ver 17.5.0.907. Uses just two colors pantone  201 C and 295 C. I have two graphics in the file, one is for the workorder proof (artistic text) and the other off to the side is set up for print and plot. The print and plot version has been converted to curves with a cut line and bleeds.

        When opening the same file on two other workstaions using 17.6.0.1021  (newer version) the graphic that is text shows the correct colors. The one that has been converted to curves visually shows the pantone 201 C as black and pantone 295 C correctly. The odd part is that when you select the "visually black" shape the color in the status bar will show it a s the correct pantone color. If I drag the black with my right mouse button and drop on another shape the pantone fill shows correctly for that shape yet the black stays black.

        note that in the image below I have the "black" selected but the status bar is correct. The piece to the left is still text.

    • I had the same issue and I found out that it was related to a setting in Options under Workspace/Save. In the section titled 'Save documents to previous versions', 'Keep appearance (suitable for limited edits)' should be checked. The odd thing is that my colors are changing to black even though I am not backsaving the file. I had changed this setting when saving to X4 because it keep converting the text to curves and when you select 'Keep editable (may change appearance)' it helps this. I now have 'Ask when saving' and 'Keep appearance...' checked.
      • I feel this question will be asked a lot or searched a lot but there are no solutions.

        I've done a lot of testing every time I've encountered this issue.

        • Issue only happens with Pantone values.
        • The colour that turns black is the Pantone value that you've grabbed from the document palette. (CorelDraw thinks these are two different colours or belongs to a different Palette)
        • If I have a Pantone colour that I've used from the swatch PMS 186 C, and then use the same PMS 186 C from the document palette later opening that same file there will be a chance the PMS 186 C I've used from the document swatch will appear black. (But when clicking on this black object the colour name will still be PMS 186 C.

        Solution

        Try your best not to use the document palette. I've trialed this out and encountered no issues; try and stick to the Pantone swatch only and ignore the document palette.

        There's no easy way to restore the colour back to original unless you click on the object to find out what the colour was.

        Try your best to keep your eye out on these changes.

        • this problem only happens if you use an old Pantone palette on a newest version. Using the current version of Pantone colors solve the problem

          • I'm using the latest Palette on the most recent version of CorelDraw and found the problem occurs from the document palette.

            There's proof to back up this as if you use a macro to remove all swatches from the document palette all those document colours that were used will change to black on the artwork.

            • you mention the PMS 186 C, PMS (Pantone matching system) is no longer used since a lot of years

              • My mistake! I was using it as an example.

                Talking about the Solid Coated Swatch

                • These issues usually exist in files from older version of Draw and specifically when using custom spot color palettes.

              • The solution I found was as follows:
                1- Select everything with Ctrl + A
                2- Press Shift + F11
                3- Cancel
                Colors should return to normal!
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