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    • August 11, 2010 at 2:03 pm #56647
      mwjubb
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      We are fixing up a large book project put together by another designer. It is supposed to be black + one PMS. But there are many rich blacks and CMYK reds all over. What this designer has done, I imagine, is deleted all the swatches she didn't want and replaced them with unnamed swatch. So the swatch palette looks fine, but the document sure isn't.

      Finding and fixing is becoming quite a job for the 1000+ pages in these volumes.

      My question is: Why is this even an option, replace with unnamed swatch? Can anyone tell my why this would be useful?

      thanks.

      MJ

    • August 11, 2010 at 2:28 pm #56648
      Theunis De Jong
      Member

      No idea why it's designed that way. Perhaps it's swatches that were added later on, since you can just create any color you want using the RGB or CMYK sliders.

      But of course you can use its pendant: add unnamed colors to swatches. That'll show you exactly what colors are applied, somewhere in your document.

    • August 12, 2010 at 11:21 am #56661
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      Yes, and then after you add them, you can delete them and it will ask you what color you want them to be replaced with.

      Another option is the Find Colors feature in Blatner Tools. I specced that plug-in for exactly your sort of situation: Where you need to find one color throughout a whole document (or multiple documents) and replace it with another. Or figure out where a color was used!

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