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• • September 7, 2010 at 7:00 am #56941
    Cindy Kelley

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    Does a script exist that can convert all spot colors to CMYK Process. Seems I am having to convert colors in every document before packaging.

    Thanks for the script info or any other work around out there :)

    cindy in indy

  • September 7, 2010 at 7:52 am #56942
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    I don't know of a script, but that is pretty easy to accomplish with the Ink Manager. Just turn on a checkbox and they all get changed. Yes?

    Oh, but you're packaging, not printing or exporting…. hm… interesting. Yes, I can see how that would be helpful to have a script that just converts them all.

  • September 7, 2010 at 8:52 am #56943
    Theunis De Jong

    Member

    I wonder if this is enough:

    app.activeDocument.colors.everyItem().properties = {space:ColorSpace.CMYK, model:ColorModel.PROCESS};

    Save a copy of your document before, and check everything after running!

  • September 9, 2010 at 2:41 am #56952
    Cindy Kelley

    Participant

    Jongware to the rescue, as usual :)

    but,

    I used your Select Code button and pasted the text in AppleScript Editor but it wouldn't let me save due to a syntax error.

    I pasted in Extendscript Tookkit.app and saved it to my Indesign CS5 scripts folder, restarted Indesign, created a new doc, they some spot color objects on it, ran the script and it worked.

    Many many thanks.

  • September 9, 2010 at 7:39 am #56956
    Theunis De Jong

    Member

    Yeah, sorry — I accidentally left out what it was for. This is Javascript, which is something entirely different from Applescript; they might as well be two different languages. Oh wait — they are :p

    The AppleScript Editor can only handle AppleScript; with the ESTK you can edit lots of different programming languages, but fortunately its default setting for new documents is … Javascript! (A lucky escape for me, there!)

    I prefer Javascript over AppleScript — both scripting languages have their strengths, but Javascripts single huge advantage is the same script works on both Mac OS X and Windows versions of InDesign!

    AppleScript, on the other hand, only works on OS X. I've said on a few occasions the third supported option, VBScript, has no good points at all – but that's just me. Anyway, VBS only works on Windows.

    (Edit:)

    .. saved it to my Indesign CS5 scripts folder, restarted Indesign ..

    You don't have to do that! Next time you save a script into the Scripts folder and go back to InDesign, you will see it's already there, in the Scripts panel!

  • June 16, 2015 at 1:50 am #76004
    Nilesh Parmar

    Member

    Thank you, works great with Indesign CC 2014. How could I get the ‘Name with Colour Value’ check on too within the Swatch options?

  • June 23, 2015 at 2:52 am #76163
    Masood Ahmad

    Participant

    Jongware, I had a script with me which deletes all the unused colours. I inserted your script code at the end of that script to do the following and it worked great:

    1. Add unNamed Colours
    2. Delete Unused Colours
    3. Convert Colours to CMYK Process

    I renamed it: Swatches_Add-UnNamed_Delete-Unused_Convert-2-CMYK-Process

    The script is here including your one line code;

    #target indesign
app.menuActions.item("$ID/Add All Unnamed Colors").invoke();
var myIndesignDoc = app.activeDocument;
var myUnusedSwatches = myIndesignDoc.unusedSwatches;
for (var s = myUnusedSwatches.length-1; s >= 0; s--) {
var mySwatch = myIndesignDoc.unusedSwatches[s];
var name = mySwatch.name;
if (name != ""){
mySwatch.remove();
}
}
app.activeDocument.colors.everyItem().properties = {space:ColorSpace.CMYK, model:ColorModel.PROCESS};

    • November 7, 2018 at 12:34 pm #111366
      Charlie LaBrecque

      Member

      @Masood Thanks for the thorough script that does exactly what I want! And thanks to everyone for their contribution.

      I’m curious if there’s a way for the script to also rename those colors (ie PANTONE, user-defined) to the CMYK values.

  • October 4, 2017 at 7:10 am #98545
    Luiz roberto Lucio correa

    Member

    Hi.

    I need to convert all process swatch colors to an specify color. Black 50%

    Is ti possible?

    Ps. Indesign CS6

    Thanks

  • October 4, 2017 at 8:42 am #98554
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Luis, what do you mean by 50% black? Are you trying to convert spot colors to process colors? Or change one color to another color?

    • October 4, 2017 at 10:26 am #98564
      Luiz roberto Lucio correa

      Member

      Hi, David.

      I am trying to transform all swatches process colors to only one color (black 50%) and to preserve a spot color.

      even if delete all replacing is only 50% black process and preserve the spot color

      That’s it.

    • October 4, 2017 at 10:43 am #98565
      David Blatner

      Keymaster

      One way to do this is by changing your color swatches to “spot colors” and then using ink manager to alias them to another spot color (50% black) and then tell that 50% black spot color to convert to process in the Ink Manager. I describe this here:
      https://creativepro.com/alias-one-color-swatch-to-another.php

    • October 4, 2017 at 1:05 pm #98579
      Michel Allio for FRIdNGE

      Participant

      David,

      The best way to do it is to let Laubender finish it for free on Adobe InDesign Scripting !? :(

      https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2112648

      (^/)

  • January 23, 2018 at 11:49 pm #101173
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    Jongware, I just had to join this site so I can thank you. Brilliant little piece of code that probably save me two hours work across many, many documents.

    Cheers.

    Matt

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