Colours changing when opening X3 files in X5

[Stephen Morriss]

There is something about this already in the thread about X5.

A Corel person explained why and what settings to change to get everything looking the same.

Steve

[Gary Birch]

Cheers Steve will have a look

Gary

[David Rowland]

the colour engine was re-written finally!!!

basically all corel’s until X5 have had poor colour, what we see now is a closer match to real values of a press

[Gary Birch]

Haven’t got time to spend on it at moment but not sure whether this is what I mean. When I open the old files it is actually altering the the colours from red to blue, it isn’t just on the screen either.

Will have a proper look when things calm down. At the moment it is easier to open the file and take the cmyk settings and reset the colours in X5.

Cheers

Gary

[Alan Drury]

Dave’s right the colour management has completely changed although should be more accurate now but may take a little getting to grips with. Monitor profile now comes from system setting and Pantone colours can be displayed with LAB. Look up the thread from Tony Severenuk he is one of the top Corel guys.
Alan D

[Gary Birch]

Hi Alan
Thanks for the input. I have changed the settings as described here https://www.uksignboards.com/viewtopic.php?t=47681

This has made no difference to the problem, When opeing the files the preview windows show the correct colours but when I open the file some colours change completely.

I think I’ll try Corel help desk if I can’t solve it here. I guess it could always be the settings we had in X3.

Cheers

Gary

[David Rowland]

if its not too much trouble….

Press Print Screen… then Paste it into your corel… then export it as a small JPG and upload it here or something like the file swapping forum.

I dont understand how blue goes to the Red

[Gary Birch]

Dave
Not really sure if this is what you mean. The X3 version is the correct colours but when I open this up in X5 as you can see the colours change completely. It isn’t unique to gradient fills either and has done it with solid backgrounds too. Sometimes a slight variation but sometimes a massive one.

It is probably something really simple but obviously needs sorting. 😕

Cheers

Gary

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[Alan Drury]

Has your X5 got the latest SP?
Alan D

[Gary Birch]

Alan
Yes, we downloaded it last week. This problem was here before then though.

Do you think it could also be a conflict with Windows XP again?

Cheers

Gary

[Alan Drury]

Don’t know is the short answer. I suspect it is something to do with being an old file (version wise) If the file is not too big you can send it to me and I’ll have a look this end, I have X5 on both W7 and XP machines.
Alan D

[Gary Birch]

Alan
I have just pm’d you.

Thanks

Gary

[Stephen Morriss]

I use both here on XP pro computers and I’ve never had this problem so not much help, sorry.

Steve

[Gary Birch]

Thanks Stephen, I have Vista on my laptop but that is at home. Will try that tomorrow.

It is all very strange 😕

I have emailed it to Alan, will be interesting to hear the results.

Cheers

Gary

[Gary Birch]

Thanks very much to Alan Drury.

After a phone call with Alan it is pretty certain that the problem was caused by the way we created custom spot colours in X3. Another lesson learned. 🙂

Thanks again

Gary