Operation Manual

Working with color | 291
Drag a bitmap to the Document palette to add colors.When you open documents that were created in
CorelDRAW X4 or an earlier version of the program, only custom spot colors and a maximum of 100 legacy
color styles are added to the Document palette. The legacy styles are added to the palette as regular colors.
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 add all colors from an existing drawing to 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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On the Document palette, click the flyout button , and click Automatically update.
By default, the Document palette is docked above the status bar at the bottom of the application window.
You can also disable the automatic adding of color by clicking Tools Customization, clicking Color palette in the Customization list
of categories, and disabling the Automatically update the document palette check box.
To manually add colors to the Document palette
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To Do the following
Add a color from another color palette Drag a color from an open color palette to the Document palette.
Add a color from a bitmap image On the Document palette, click the Eyedropper button, and click a
color in the image.
Add multiple colors from an image
On the Document palette, click the Eyedropper button , hold
down Ctrl, and then click the image until you add the colors that
you want.