Hi Corel help.......and I need help. I am using CorelDraw X3
I do tee-shirt art. I am in the process of doing a shirt and have used the mesh blend tool for the first time.
It is way cool to be able to drag and drop a color to blend. My question is I have an 8 color design in spot colors. I used the mesh blend tool pretty heavy on a car in the design and am very pleased with the effects.
But when I go to view the print seps. preview mode, I am not seeing the 3 colors I blended in the car.
The color comes up on the bottom of the page but the page is white. I am afraid that when I send my artwork to the printer he won't be able to seperate it.
I want to be able to view all the seperations but can't. Can anyone help?
Thanks in advance
earl
Hi, Earl, the mesh fill of X3 converts spot colors to CMYK. I'm not sure if you open your job in X4 it will be auto-updated
Ariel, I don't understand.
I don't have much call to use the Mesh tool that often but in X3 my sep page still shows spot colors.
What am I missing?
My sep page also shows the spot colors I used but when I click the print preview button at the bottom left to view the actual separations,
wherever I have use the mesh tool, that particular color won't show up on the separation pages...........
What you need to do is select every thing once you choose the mesh tool and change to spot colors, then select the nodes of mesh tool that you what to change to another spot color and change them. This will retain spot colors, if you make object spot colors first and then mesh tool they go to process colors!
Nope, not on my end.
In X3 I don't need to do anything "special". I just use spot colors with the mesh tool and spot colors come up in my sep plates.
Now I'm really confused.
Not sure I understand....but I went and went into the printer and click on separations tab and click on print separations,
then print preview and left it in the "As in Document" and bingo I can see everything in the separations even the stuff I used the mesh tool on.
But my art is 16" X 18" so I hit the little drop down window to "Fit to page" so I can see everything and I lose all of my mesh tool stuff on the seps.
I have always done this in the past as far as "Fit to page" and have never seen this before.
Here is what I am trying to show, top is the art , bottom left is viewed "As in Document"
Bottom right is viewed in "Fit to Page"........don't know why I can view one way and not the other.