Pantone, CMYK, RGB and Hex differences in Xara Designer Pro X

[behzad]

Many thanks for your detailed reply... hope your arm recovered !

So in conclusion, it looks like any customers that send us PDF artwork which contain Pantone Colours, we'll need to replace those colours for an RGB equivalent to ensure that they get printed correctly on our CMYK Printer as Xara can't be relied on to print those Pantone Colours into a close CMYK/RGB match.

Seems a shame, we've been advising our customers if they want a close colour match to send us artwork with Pantone Colours embedded... but if Xara can't convert those correctly then maybe we should be asking for RGB colours instead.

Many thanks again for your answers, much appreciated.

No, your incorrect in that assumption. I have done many pantone work for clients. Just grab yourself a CMYK/Pantone book and punch in the numbers into Xara.

https://polycolors.ca/product/panton...AaAjt8EALw_wcB

[behzad]

See file attached, make sure you set your colors to simulate print colors. It is in the file. Use a pantone process color imaging guide.

[Ander]

Hi! New user to Design Pro, i have been testing doing print documents in CMYK format, what i have seen is the color of black and grey when i export to pdf not in right CMYK value, i using Adobe Acrobat Pro to check the documents, in my job on a digital printshop we prepress and convert pdf to cmyk from our clients when we print. Problem here is that black and grey is build of all four colors an not in only black.
Our machine are counting click and costs more to print in color, when it is a document that should be in only black.
I test and make my own color of black and grey which be correct in export.
It would be nice if you could make your own color palette in CMYK and save that, but can't find that, the default looks to be in HSV, see picture
Black_Grey_test.pdfBlack_Grey_test.xar

[behzad]

Every printer prints rich black with different values, it is best one asks the printer what the values are. Yes Acrobat pro is good for checking colors.

[ss-kalm]

As far as I'm aware, you CAN make your own CMYK palette.

[handrawn]

I think exporting 100% k [ie no CMY] black from Xara needs a specific PDF setting and not the default

[Ander]

If i start a new drawing and draw a box in black like in the picture the black is made of four color when i export to pdf, but if you draw the black slider to zero and up again and do another same export, that box is made of only 100K

[mwenz]

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It would be nice if you could make your own color palette in CMYK and save that, ...

You can. There is a utility to do so.

This is my default palette, CMY & K in 10 percent steps.



Mike

[Ander]

You can. There is a utility to do so.

This is my default palette, CMY & K in 10 percent steps.



Mike

Thanks for all answer, this was interest, i can't find anything in the program to made a palette, where can i find this utility?

[handrawn]

there is xpal, but I don't know how it stands re cmyk :

http://www.smokingun.co.uk/index/downloads

I would embed named colours in a [default] template blank file myself, and open the document palette on the colour line

I think the slider issue is a known quirk/bug you need to 'wake it up'