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When you start a new drawing, an empty color palette, named the Document palette, appears in the drawing window. Every time you use a color in your drawing, it’s automatically added to the Document palette. However, if you prefer to control which colors are added to the Document palette, you can disable the automatic updates and add colors manually.
An example of the Document palette before (above) and after (below) colors are added to a document.
You can add colors from a color palette, an external image, a color picker, or a color-related dialog box, such as the Uniform fill color dialog boxes. In addition, you can add colors from an imported image or object.
Drag a bitmap to the Document palette to add colors.
When you open documents that were created in a previous version of CorelDRAW, only color styles and spot colors are added to the Document palette. However, you can add all colors from an existing drawing to the Document palette.
You can clear the Document palette of any unwanted or unused colors by removing colors individually or resetting the palette to remove all unused colors at once.
You can also hide the Document palette.
The Document palette is automatically saved with the document. If you rename the .cdr file to .zip, the Document color palette (DocumentPalette.xml) is included in the .zip package.
To disable the automatic adding of color to the Document palette |
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In the top left corner of the Document palette, click the flyout button, and click
Automatically update.
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You can also disable the automatic adding of color by clicking Tools
Options, clicking Color palette in the Customization list of categories, and
disabling the Automatically update the document palette check box.
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To manually add colors to the Document palette |
When dragging most vector objects, all object colors are added to the palette.
However, when dragging a bitmap, only the five most dominant colors are
added. If an object includes a fountain fill, texture fill, or pattern fill, only colors
that are defined during the fill creation are supported. Colors from PostScript
fills are not supported.
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To add colors from an existing drawing to the Document palette |
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Open a drawing.
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In the top left corner of the Document palette, click the flyout button, and click
Add from document.
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If the drawing was created in a previous version of Corel DRAW and it includes
custom spot colors, they do not display in the Document palette.
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To remove a color from the Document palette |
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Click a color swatch on the Document palette.
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In the top left corner of the Document palette, click the flyout button, and click
Delete color.
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You can also remove all of the colors that are no longer used from the
Document palette by clicking the flyout button in the top left corner of the
Document palette, and clicking Palette Reset palette.
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To reset the Document palette |
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In the top left corner of the Document palette, click the flyout button, and click
Palette Reset palette.
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To hide the Document palette |
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Click Window Color palette Document palette.
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Hiding the Document palette does not disable the automatic adding of color.
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