Gradient fill problem

I have been using CorelDraw since the day it came out. Just had to say that so the forum would know i do know my way around Coreldraw.

My PC systems rock!! all i7's, 32 ram, SSD, high end graphics cards.

Corelx8 STILL drags, slowest Corel yet. Had to get that off my chest.

Now to my problem.

I have a gradient fill (CMYK) top is 100% yellow to 100% yellow 100% black. If i click on the slider and add another point, it will show me what the gradient color is.

Lets say i click about 75% to the top of the slider bar, IT should be a fill of about 100% yellow and 25% black. IT does not!! it shows it as an RGB color, once i convert that color to CMYK.

it has a percentage of Cyan AND magenta as well as the yellow and Black.

IT should only contain percentages of Yellow and Black.

Can't someone explain what is going on, and how to (BY default ) use CMYK.

 We print T-shirts as well as car wrap vinyls.

Thanks,

Dave

  • On my system you fountain fill build works fine.

    • David thanks for the reply,

      I am Using a PC i7, SSD drive, CorelX8,Win10 64Bit, 32G ram.
      I'm talking about the gradient fill.
      It is a simple fill from 100% yellow to 100% yellow-100%Black CMYK. If you click on the object with the fill and then hit the fill icon a screen comes up with your fill, you will see the two color boxes on the ends with a slider bar in between. You can click ANYWHERE on that slider bar to add another color Once you click on it that new box shows what color that is, and that box can be moved up and down that slider bar. But once i click and add that color (accually not adding a color but using the color that is in that position by default) THAT color changes to an RGB color and adds Magenta and Cyan, even thou there is NO Magenta or Cyan on the opposite ends of the gradient fill.

      It never did this on any version i have used , and i have been using Corel since day One, old split screen CorelDraw early 90's
      186, 64KB ram,

      Dave (NUTTZ33)
      • David Milisock said:

        Ok I see it's not the fountain fill it's the interactive fill tool.  The intermediate dialogs pop up as RGB but simply changing them to CMYK resolves the issue

        I don't think this is specifically related to the Interactive Fill tool.

        Here's what I see if I don't use the Interactive Fill tool at all, but just the Fill dialog.

        Again, I've set one endpoint to Y100 K100, and the other endpoint to Y100.

        When I add an intermediate node in this dialog, it does not initially come up in RGB; it comes up directly in CMYK.

        • This must be a bug, or two actually. How the hell have they been able to sneak in without anyone noticing?

          I Created a fill from white (0,0,0,0) to black (0,0,0,100) in the Edit Fill dialog, and then added an intermediate node.
          This node was a mixture of C, M, Y and K, even though I only had black on the end node.

          If I do the same thing with the Interactive Fill tool, the intermediate node becomes an RGB node.
          If I check this fill in the Edit Fill dialog, the node is still RGB. Totally crazy.

          Document color mode CMYK, by the way.
          • Ronny Axelsson said:
            This must be a bug, or two actually. How the hell have they been able to sneak in without anyone noticing?

            I Created a fill from white (0,0,0,0) to black (0,0,0,100) in the Edit Fill dialog, and then added an intermediate node.
            This node was a mixture of C, M, Y and K, even though I only had black on the end node.

            If I do the same thing with the Interactive Fill tool, the intermediate node becomes an RGB node.
            If I check this fill in the Edit Fill dialog, the node is still RGB. Totally crazy.

            This would be a great time for someone knowledgeable from Corel Corp to step into the thread and let us know whether this is expected behavior or not.

            This looks a lot like the way that mesh fills behave.

            • There's no need for some one from Corel to chime in I've been at this for 25 years.  Ever since I believe X3 and the ability to change form a default CMYK to an RGB mode the color dialogs of the tools were supposed to follow the color mode of the application in X3 and X4 and then in X5 with the color management change the color mode of the document.  This has been a bug for several cycles now.

              Test it use an RGB fountain fill it will work correctly.

              Then a CMYK fountain fill and write the RGB and then the CMYK numbers that result.  Then radically change the CMYK profile. Do the CMYK fountain fill and watch the RGB and then the resulting CMYK conversions.   They'll be different.  It's why the color dialogs must be anchored to the document color mode.

              • David Milisock said:
                There's no need for some one from Corel to chime in I've been at this for 25 years.  Ever since I believe X3 and the ability to change form a default CMYK to an RGB mode the color dialogs of the tools were supposed to follow the color mode of the application in X3 and X4 and then in X5 with the color management change the color mode of the document.  This has been a bug for several cycles now.

                OK, David, then how about this as a revised version of what I posted earlier?

                "This would be a great time for someone knowledgeable from Corel Corp to step into the thread, agree that this is a bad way for the software to behave, confirm that they are aware of the problem, and let us know when they plan to fix it."