Making an ID document one color

In a document with colored and B&W graphics and text is it possible to make all the graphics and text one color, for example PMS 280, to print on a Xerox Docucolor printer? Heretofore we've been coloring all the text one box at a time and doing the graphics in Photoshop or Illustrator, which is very time-consuming. Or can the document be exported as a PDF and colorized in Acrobat? Thanks!

If you have CS3, I believe you can use GREP to replace colors. Also, look for a script that will do it. I'm pretty sure there is one.

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This is way ?
var theLayers = collectLayers(app.activeDocument, []);
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I may not quite follow.
Would you mind posting an example (a screenshot with the Layers Panel visible for example) and an overview of the resulting images you want to produce?

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Prefixing the search string with a space is probably the best thing to do.
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Show one color at a time

right now i am just brainstorming my next art project so i don't really have anything specific (which might make this harder to answer but bear with me)
ok, i am hoping to create a pretty complex peice. lots of shapes and detail, no gradients though.
is there a way to only show one color at a time.... that makes no sense, let me grab an example...
ok, i'll try again, if i was going to do this in illustrator, i would have that gold on top all on one layer. then on top of that i would have the red eyes on one layer. is there a way i can see all the gold but only the gold that will actually show up when i print it? basically like when they do prints, they print one color at a time and it's not like they overlap a bunch of layers. can i do that like on screen?
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ALWAYS state what version you're using.
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