Colors in FreeHand

When I opened a Freehand document, the color mixer went to
all zero amounts but the area below the four color slides became a
magenta-like color (with all the values at zero, this color should
be white). Also all the colors in the color list then became shades
of magenta. When I slide the values to the right, they all remain
shades of magenta.
Any suggestions on what to do?

> When I opened a Freehand document, the color mixer went
to all zero amounts but
> the area below the four color slides became a
magenta-like color (with all the
> values at zero, this color should be white). Also all
the colors in the color
> list then became shades of magenta. When I slide the
values to the right, they
> all remain shades of magenta.
> Any suggestions on what to do?
This happens sometimes in Windows. I don't know what actually
causes it but it has something to do with color management.
In XP it my be fixed by
- Removing incompatibe icc profiles from the system. (by
guessing)
- Deleting FreeHand preference files (make a backup copy
first)
In Vista by
- Replacing very old kodak dll-files with newer ones. (can be
found with Google search)
In my Vista computer the colors were like that from the
start. Replacing dll files fixed the problem.
Jukka

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>
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>
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