We have made a large upgrade from Corel Draw 12 to Corel Draw 2018. We use a lot of images from past artwork but we are using the same color palette (Matching System Corel 8). We built a new palette in CD 2018 but from that palette since we tend to use the same pantone colors on all artwork. The problem we are having is for example if we copy and paste anything from CD 12 into a new doc the colors, even though they are exactly the same from the same palette will show up on 2 different separation pages. We have contacted Corel and their technical support was not very helpful telling us to basically save every file as a CMX and then re-save as a new CDR file. We open hundreds of files a day and that would slow us down tremendously and I shouldn't have to. Its the exact same color from the exact same palette but I cannot for the life of me figure out why it's showing up on two different pages.
The image shown in pantone 283 CV and we include a color list for the printers so they know what screen is what color. Once added to the art the list (next image) shows up as another screen.
I feel like this is some kind of bug or something silly like a setting but we nor Corel's technical support can figure this out. Please help!
This may sound very strange, but have you tried this?
In my limited testing, that makes a difference.
More details later; gotta run now.
Yes, corel technical support told us to save everything as a cmx, close it, re-open it and save it back as a cdr. It works, but that slows down our process TREMENDOUSLY and we can't get anything done.
I'm not suggesting saving as .CMX. I'm suggesting that you save the CorelDRAW file, close the file, and then reopen it - as a test - to see if that works.
I think that I will have something else to recommend as a real solution.
I got ya, sadly that doesn't work. These are files that were created, then approved a month later so they have been created, closed and reopened and the issue still remains.
OK, I'm really curious about that, then. Would you be willing to share a sample file where you are seeing this problem? You can contact me by private message on the forum, if you don't want to post the file publicly.
I can duplicate some of this on my system, but the problem goes away after saving/closing/reopening.
Even though the colors look the same, and appear to be the same, there are things that I can see (using a macro) that makes those colors "different" to CorelDRAW.
I won't pretend that I know exactly what is going on here, but I will share some observations.
So, at one point along the way, we had two colors that CorelDRAW considered to be from two different palettes - and it produced two plates. After saving, closing, and opening the document, CorelDRAW considered those fills to be the same color, from the same palette - and only produced one plate.