RAL colours in Micrografx Designer (IGrafx Designer)

The Designer is an easy to use, accurate and versatile vector-based drawing program. The "palette manager" offers the use of several RAL colour palettes (.pl4 files). Organization with RAL colours becomes a child's game and ensures color accuracy!

 

Versions	Micr. Designer 4.0 and up, IGrafx Designer 1.0 and up
File format	pl4
Colours	RAL CLASSIC: 210 RAL DESIGN System: 1625 RAL EFFECT: 490
Optimizations	Standard RGB Trinitron RGB Offset printing uncoated paper Offset printing coated paper Newsprint
Application for	Colouring of vector files of all kinds
Ergonomics	***

 

Destination Directory

Designer 4.x	DESIGNER
Designer 6.x	pl4
iGrafx Designer	iGrafx\Designer\1.0\Palettes

The adherence to this destination path is not necessary for the availability of the palettes in the program.

In this program variant the RGB palettes (sRGB, Trinitron) were defined in CMYK. To achieve this the neutral colour part was substituted by 100% Black (100% GCR).

Using RAL colours in Micrografx/IGrafx Designer

1. Click on the colour selection field (bucket, left) and the palette symbol (top).
2. Move onto the "Palette Manager" in the menu "Format".
3. Import the desired palette file for you output device and select "Replace Current Palettes".
4. Select the wanted version of the displayed colour palettes.
5. Select the "Floating Palette".
6. Design in RAL!

 

Use of the RAL CLASSIC colours in a drawing. The colour names appear in an indicator field.

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