Unstable colours.

I am having considerable difficulty keeping colours true to the selections
made. Whether using regular palette or custom colours, many come through
quite wrong. Sometimes my background will change dramatically. One of my
authoring programs requires screen prints it is difficult to catch the
drawings at just the right time.

I do a full system viruscan weekly with Norton that doesn't find anything.
Anyone else have similar problems?

Lauraline of cadterns.com

 

Why do I hate posting this? I just don't know.

Lauraline, check on the net for the latest drivers for your printer, vis-a-vis
your operating system.

You didn't mention if it's wrong on the screen and/or on the printout. And it's
not clear what you meant about "catching the drawings at the right time." Wanna be
more specific?

If the background changes dramatically... Hmmm, I don't get it, and I'm not a
Canuck! At least not yet.<g>

H

 

Boredom....!!!???

 

Not really boredom. It's the fact that whenever something doesn't work exactly as
expected, the stock answers are "reinstall" and "latest drivers."

This one sounded like a "latest drivers" response and somehow it's not satisfying
for the questioner or answerer, if you take my meaning. And it may work, but we'll
never know.

H

 

I am having considerable difficulty keeping colours true to the selections

I have had similar problems.
I use filled polygons a lot and find that the colour I originally filled
them with changes when I next open the drawing.
IIRC, it's something to do with the range of pallets in the newer version of
AS compared with the meagre pallet range supplied in the original Drafix.

Under 'graphic options' there's a 'pallets' tab - try changing the pallet to
a different one using the 'load' command.

But if you have been using just the one version of AS all the time then this
might not be of any help, also it is not clear if you are having 'screen'
problems or 'printer' problems...

BTW, g'day Harvey and all the old regulars - haven't been here for a while
but still using AS7 daily...

 

Thank you for responding. I never thought to consider palettes. I'm still
trying to recover from reinstall which I'll address separately. When Sketch
is up and running again I'll check into palettes. Lauraline

| > I am having considerable difficulty keeping colours true to the
selections
| > made. Whether using regular palette or custom colours, many come
through
| > quite wrong. Sometimes my background will change dramatically. One of
my
| > authoring programs requires screen prints it is difficult to catch the
| > drawings at just the right time.
|
| I have had similar problems.
| I use filled polygons a lot and find that the colour I originally filled
| them with changes when I next open the drawing.
| IIRC, it's something to do with the range of pallets in the newer version
of
| AS compared with the meagre pallet range supplied in the original Drafix.
|
| Under 'graphic options' there's a 'pallets' tab - try changing the pallet
to
| a different one using the 'load' command.
|
| But if you have been using just the one version of AS all the time then
this
| might not be of any help, also it is not clear if you are having 'screen'
| problems or 'printer' problems...
|
| BTW, g'day Harvey and all the old regulars - haven't been here for a while
| but still using AS7 daily...
|

 

Sorry, I keep neglecting to clarify that the current colour problem is
precisely screen colour. The problem files haven’t been printed, and may
never be. They are being prepared for an on-line presentation, and slide
files of AutoSketch drawings and are central to the teaching tools under
development. Lauraline


| I am having considerable difficulty keeping colours true to the selections
| made. Whether using regular palette or custom colours, many come through
| quite wrong. Sometimes my background will change dramatically. One of my
| authoring programs requires screen prints it is difficult to catch the
| drawings at just the right time.
|
| I do a full system viruscan weekly with Norton that doesn't find anything.
| Anyone else have similar problems?
|
| Lauraline of cadterns.com
|
|

 

When I open a WMF color pallet drawing, I get an Autosketch PAL. I can save the PAL for later use. Using an alternate PAL will change the drawing colors.

AS PALs are comma separated text files and contain two AS basic sets. Jasc PALs are space separated, but otherwise very similar.

I can convert MS PALs and Jasc PALs to an EPS form, and then to WMF. When I load the WMF drawing, I can get the AS PAL.

I would normally use MODE in Photoshop to index the colors in an image, and create a MS PAL.

You might look at XPal for working with palettes. Freeware.

In AS, you can look at a PAL sort, but it doesn't change the palette order. The palette order is the triplicate order in the PAL text file.

M