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• • February 12, 2020 at 11:52 am #1228527
    Mari Gill

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    I can’t delete a spot color from my InDesign swatches panel, it’s greyed out. I’ve deleted all paragraph, character and object styles (and checked default styles), any extras layers and pages and it’s still greyed out and can’t delete from the swatches panel. A plate for the spot color shows up in the InDesign separations preview, but nothing on the page or pasteboard. When I export to pdf, there isn’t a plate for it. Any ideas why?

    Mari

  • February 12, 2020 at 12:08 pm #14323089
    Justin Wheeler

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    Hi Mari! Have you checked your links panel to see if there are any linked graphics that contain that stubborn spot color?

  • February 12, 2020 at 12:37 pm #14323088
    Mari Gill

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    Hi Justin,
    I’ve deleted all links. I’ve deleted just about everything.

  • February 12, 2020 at 12:49 pm #14323087
    Justin Wheeler

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    What is the name of the spot color? Is it a Pantone color?

  • February 12, 2020 at 1:53 pm #14323086
    Mari Gill

    Member

    Justin,
    The color is Pantone 5395 U

  • February 13, 2020 at 5:35 am #14323081
    Justin Wheeler

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    HMMMM…Any way you can share the file somehow? Might be easier to diagnose the problem if I could see it. Could try saving it as a .idml file and then opening that to see if it the file is holding some bogus data. Never seen one hold onto a color swatch but hey, anything is possible I suppose.

  • February 13, 2020 at 9:01 am #14323080
    Leisa Gawler

    Member

    Have you checked the master page incase it’s hiding on there?

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