14. Color Management in CorelDRAW 10: It Manages Everything But Its Own Files

CorelDRAW has a rather clever user interface for color management that makes the way it functions relatively obvious, but its use of icons instead of menu options makes it a little hard to describe in writing.

Like Macromedia FreeHand, CorelDRAW sees CMYK as press-ready, so it doesn’t do any CMYK-to-CMYK conversions except when you make a composite CMYK printer simulate the Separations printer. Also like FreeHand, CorelDRAW only performs conversions on output (with one exception—see “Manual Controls,” later in this chapter) or on export. It supports embedded profiles in RGB images for import and export of TIFF, JPEG, and .PSD (Photoshop) formats, but it doesn’t support ...

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