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Draw 12 to PDF Duo-Tone changing to CMYK?
Hopefully Alan Dury may be able to help me on this.
I have some artwork in Draw 12 that in print preview looks fine and a Duo-tone (Monotone set to a spot colour) separates fine.
When converted to PDF within Corel or Printed via distiller it changes to either CMYK or Greyscale.
When I try to import the PDF back to corel all the other spots are there fine. But the duo-tone has now changed.
Any suggestions?
Does X3 handle this better as I have this on my machine at home?Many Thanks
Tim.
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I remember this one, my workflow involved printing to Acrobat to produce a pdf and this resulted in greyscale duotone for display but it used to output ok with the rip but it caused me no end of hassle and explaing to the customer. I don’t have V12 or X3 on this machine but I can tell you that X4 and X5 work with this workflow – print duotone to Cute Pdf. PDF displays as expected and imports into Draw as expected. PUBLISH to PDF I’ve not tried with X4 but X5 works and I suspect X4 does too.
If you’re going to upgrade your V12 you might as well go to X5 as import filters are updated especially the AI and PDF which are more CS friendly.
Alan D -
Duo-tones in early Corel did fail to work, it would produce greyscales bitmaps on PDF/EPS outputs. I was messing with a duotone the other day as it would not RIP correctly.
My advise with regards Duo is to use them for what they are good for, 2 colour printing with two sets of ink, if not convert them as they are difficult to work with.
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I describe a duotone basically as a greyscale but a Pantone colour instead of black so a duotone can be a single colour so a monotone to be strictly correct. Anyway later versions of Draw do handle these much better thats not to say that some RIPS don’t struggle though and that is not necessarily a Draw issue.
Alan D -
Thanks for the replies chaps.
Was a time when it was common to use 2 channels of the 4 colour so it was easier to get RIPs so separate properly. I can remember in the early days of Draw amending clients visuals to just Yellow & Cyan on 2 colour jobs.
Distiller worked fine on my home PC with X3 so must be an output issue with Draw 12.
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oh yes so do i… thats going back some years..
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Probably a V12 issue. V12 was a good version but in my opinion FWIW X3 was a quantum leap from filter improvements to just contours being curves and not hundreds of straight lines. X4 and X5 have built on that. I can only assume (and I have no official information) that X6 will move on again. Anybody upgrading to the X series from V12 or earlier will see improvement.
Alan D
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