How Do You Print the Corel Pantone Swatch?

[David Rowland]

yep 🙂
Sadly with the rectangle tool then fill and thats how we did it

[Tim Painter]

1.1
Click on "Tools" > "Visual Basic" > "Play." This brings up the "CorelDRAW Visual Basic for Applicatons Macros" dialog box.

2.2
Select "GlobalMacros" from the drop-down menu.

3.3
Choose "CorelMacros: CreateColorSwatch" from the macros list.

4.4
Click on the "Run" button.

5.5
Select the color palette you want to print in the "Palette" area. If it is not listed there, click "Open" to launch an open file dialog box. Pick the palette you want and click "Open" to go back to the macro box.

6.6
Enter the date and printer if you wish. Check the "Outline" box if you want the color swatches to have borders. You can also adjust the spacing.

7.7
Click "OK." The macro will create a set of color swatches ready for printing.

[Dave Rich]

Legend!

[Adrian Yeo]

Tim

Thats a great bit of info. Many thanks indeed for posting 😀 😀 😀

Out of interest, if the palette is not shown, where do you look to find it?

Adie

[Alan Drury]

Programmes – corel – colour – palettes (Choose colour model this is for X5. CPL palettes may not show so choose all files and select XML files. This macro works well but always seem to give A4 pages with small colour samples. I’ll see if this can be enlarged.
Alan D

[Adrian Yeo]

Thanks Alan.

I did notice the A4 page size. If it can be enlarged then all the better!

Thanks
again

Adie 😀

[John Parfit]

When I saw this I nearly cried.

I was recently given the task of making up full colour swatches for pantone solid, CMYK and RGB in order to profile the outputs of our printers; took me best part of two weeks and we now have about a 100,000 (guess) colour samples to match with customer requirements.

Luckily (for me) I notice that the macros give only the basic range of colours available, for in the palettes if you left click and hold on any colour then in RGB and CMYK another 50 shades/variations appear and in pantone all the tints show.

I had to put all those extras onto swatches and by the end of this task I had gone completely cross eyed. 😮

John

[Alan Drury]

To print a pallette on a larger sheet. Set your required page size and make it yopur default – tools – save settings as default.
Still looking into how to make samples bigger.
Alan D

[David Rowland]

i did partially write a corel script to do shades… it would draw a grid and blend between colours in CMYK, never did finish it.

interesting Wasatch RIP uses the RGB pallet with an inbuilt print-pallet feature but thats only good if u got wasatch as u enter the values as spot-colour replacements but u choose something near and let it print ranges.