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How to search for ‘any colour that is NOT 100% black’

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    • January 2, 2025 at 12:10 pm #14410216
      Henry
      Member

      I have set up a book in Indesign 19. The book needs to use only 100% black type, ready for printing. But somehow some instances of black variations have crept into the document and I would like to identify them and replace with 100% black. However, I can’t find a way to do that. Searching for a specific colour is easy, but I don’t know what specific colour I need to find. So I need something that can identify anything that is NOT 100% black.

      Maybe this feature is available somewhere, but I have not been able to find it. So I would be incredibly grateful if someone could point me in the right direction or offer a solution.

      Thanks!

    • January 2, 2025 at 12:38 pm #14410220
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      Try choosing “Add All Unnamed Colors” from the Swatches panel menu (in the upper-right corner of the panel). That should add all the variations as swatches. Then you can delete them and replace them with [Black]

    • January 2, 2025 at 12:52 pm #14410228
      Henry
      Member

      Thank you so much for your quick reply David, it is appreciated. I’ll try that suggestion in the morning (I’m in Spain)

    • January 3, 2025 at 5:51 am #14410247
      Michel Allio for FRIdNGE
      Participant

      Henry clearly wrote:

      “The book needs to use only 100% black type… But somehow some instances of black variations have crept into the document and I would like to identify them and replace with 100% black.”

      So just a simple Grep Find/Replace:

      Find: [Black] color (that means any tint, including of course 100% tint!)
      Replace by: [Black] color + 100% tint

      (^/) The Jedi

    • January 3, 2025 at 7:28 am #14410256
      Henry
      Member

      Thanks for your suggestion Michel, it’s appreciated. Both methods are useful in their own ways!

    • February 4, 2025 at 11:07 am #14410221
      David
      Member

      Do a Find/Change color search for all 100% black characters and change them temporarily to something that stands out, like cyan; culprits should be revealed with this reverse approach.

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