Hi Everybody,
A "working" document has one and only one "working" color space. It may be either assigned or embedded.
Thus an imported file or part of an imported file has only two options.
1. Convert the numbers in the imported file or part of an imported file to the working color space of the working document.2. Use the numbers in the imported file without any changes. This doesn't make any sense to me but it is an option.
However, there are three options in Import and Paste. I'm guessing that the first two options are shown as two options because the working document may have either an assigned or embedded color profile. Personally, I believe that this wording and two options are confusing. It seems to imply that these are two independent choices. However these two options depend on whether the working document has an assigned or embedded color profile. To avoid confusion, I believe that they should be merged into one option -- say -- "Change to the working space of the working document."
The third option is ambiguous. Where is the color profile embedded -- in the working document or the file being imported. Worse yet -- you are not "using" the color profile of the imported file. You're just keeping the same numbers. You're still "using" the working color space of the working documents -- possibly incorrectly if the color spaces of the imported file and the working file are different.
This may not be a big deal to experienced users of CDGS. However, it does add more confusion to an already confusing subject -- Color Management.Phil
Color profiles are part of any saved CorelDRAW file even if you don't embed the profiles in the saved file and you can prove it to yourself.
Set Corel Photo-PAINT to have a default RGB profile of prophoto, then set CorelDRAW to work in sRGB.
Start a CorelDRAW file, import an sRGB image and save the file to your hard drive, DO NOT EMBED any profiles.
Right click the image, edit bitmap, once in Corel Photo-PAINT, note that Photo-PAINT sees the image as sRGB even though the Photo-PAINT default was set to prophoto.
Now in Photo-PAINT convert the image to LAB, exit Corel Photo-PAINT returning the LAB image to Draw, in Draw change the image to RGB it will be an sRGB image.
Phil1923 said:There is no way in CDGS to have sRGB, on layer 1, US web coated (SWOP) v2 on layer 2, and a grayscale profile on layer 3.
If you preserve the color profile of the images, you can have 2, 3 or more different color profiles on the same document, even on the same layer. It's different on photoPaint or Photoshop, since the image only can use one color profile (for example, you can't use RGB and CMYK or grayscale at the same time). CorelDRAW allows to choose between preserve the profile of each image or replace it for the overall color profile of the document. If you maintain the color profile, and when you Publish as PDF choose "Native", each image should maintain their native color profile
Phil you don't need to know how, the program just works for you and all 3 color spaces can all be on one layer or on multiple layers.
Two ways to test, import into Draw an RGB image, duplicate it twice. Leave one image RGB, convert one to Grayscale and the other to CMYK.
Or you can start a new CorelDRAW file, import an RGB image, a Grayscale image and a CMYK image.
In either case when you go to save the file look at the save dialog and see what profiles it wants to embed, you'll see all three.
When you understand that CorelDRAW can work in all 3 color spaces simultaneously then the import and paste options make perfect sense.
This is not Xara or Illustrator.