Illustrator and Xara PDF

[mwenz]

BTW, at least in XDP, if you have not added the button below in the screen shot to a toolbar, it helps to more or less notice the color shift when the intent is to go to a CMYK output.



On the left is obviously XDP, the Printer's Colors button is depressed (on). On the right is the result in Acrobat. While certain colors work better with this command set to on, for others it is far off.

[handrawn]

you should also find 'simulate print colours' on xara's window/show printer colours menu as an alternative to the button mike mentions

I gave up trying to manage colour in xara a while back, it doesn't do it in any helpful way - fortunately I don't need colour fidelity a lot of the time

[Jonopen]

you should also find 'simulate print colours' on xara's window/show printer colours menu as an alternative to the button mike mentions

That button is not available from the XPGD button palette but the simulate print colours option is from the menu. Hope Xara don't now remove the option!