Saving Color Swatch Sets with Files

I don't know why this is so hard to do in Photoshop. How can I save a custom color swatch window for all my different files individually. I am wanting to do exactly what Indesign and Illustrator does. I open a file in Photoshop and it brings in the last color pallet I used, instead of the color pallet I used for that file. Is there any way around this?

ID and AI are using simpler objects and colors associated with those objects.
Photoshop works with images with millions of pixels, none of which may directly relate to specific swatches.
You can save and switch swatch preset files if you like. But swatches are not carried along with the document in Photoshop (because it's like trying to carry every grain of sand on every beach in the world).

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I have a little problem. I'm making a lot of similar document with InDesign so everytime I copy/paste the latest and then rename it from windows. But when I try to save (with a custom preset) the document as PDF, everytime on default InDesign gave the name of the original document, so I have to write the right name everytime. How can I change this? I want to have on default the file name I'm working on, not the original one.
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Hi Ole
Thanks for the quick response. Your workaround works well up to a point. However, because the color 'Hyperlinks grey' already exists in the document I'm working on, when you add a new swatch it creates 'Hyperlinks grey 2'. I really need the text to be colored with the original color: in our production workflow we use a system called Odystar to create a Web and a Print PDF. For a print PDF, Odystar first looks for text in the spot color 'Hyperlinks grey' and turns it to black and removes the underscore. It means that hyperlinks look like hyperlinks for a Web PDF, but not for a print PDF.
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With kind regards
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Coloring a Font with a RGB etc. without adding the color to the document swatches.

Is there a way of coloring a font with a RGB, Lab or CMYK color without adding the color to the document swatches.
The only way I know is to add a color to the swatches or use one that already exists.
like
   app.selection[0].characters[0].fillColor=document.colors.add({colorValue: [255, 53, 160], space: ColorSpace.RGB});}
This has the undesired effect of cluttering up the swatches when using a lot of colors.
any ideas?

Good Morning Uwe!
After 3am by me 2am by you
I had tried the link and it did download but I have cs5 cs6 and cc but not cs5.5 and all the scripts worked on them may because of the file conversion.
So it looks like the following summary is all correct
All documents new contain
Swatches (Black, Registration, Paper and None) the index order will be the order that the swatches appear in the swatches panel
And colors in an alphabetical index order
named color "A" first "Z" last and then the unnamed colors.
A such all new documents colors[-1] will be an unnamed color which we can duplicated to produce other unnamed colors taking note that the duplication must be process and not spot colors.
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while (app.activeDocument.colors[-1].name == "") app.activeDocument.colors[-1].remove()
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If there were no unnamed swatches and we try to duplicate colors[-1] and it was a color like "Yellow" then it seem's to crash indesign.
Anyway the below method should always work (for regular non tint etc. type colors).
// optimized for easy of use but not efficiency !!!
var doc = app.documents.add();
var p = doc.pages[0];
p.textFrames.add({contents: "RGB", geometricBounds: ["0mm", "0mm", "30mm", "30mm"], fillColor: addUnnamedColor([0, 0,255])}); // will be a RGB
p.textFrames.add({contents: "RGB", geometricBounds: ["0mm", "30mm", "30mm", "60mm"], fillColor: addUnnamedColor([0, 255,0], 1666336578)}); // will be a RGB because of value
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p.textFrames.add({contents: "RGB", geometricBounds: ["0mm", "120mm", "30mm", "150mm"], fillColor: addUnnamedColor([232, 0, 128],1)}); // will be a RGB
p.textFrames.add({contents: "Lab", geometricBounds: ["30mm", "0mm", "60mm", "30mm"], fillColor: addUnnamedColor([29.5, 67.5, -112])}); // will be a Lab because of -
p.textFrames.add({contents: "Lab", geometricBounds: ["30mm", "30mm", "60mm", "60mm"], fillColor: addUnnamedColor([100, -128, 127], 1665941826)}); // will be a Lab because of value
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p.textFrames.add({contents: "Lab", geometricBounds: ["30mm", "90mm", "60mm", "120mm"], fillColor: addUnnamedColor([36.8, -9, 27],"l")}); // will be a Lab
p.textFrames.add({contents: "Lab", geometricBounds: ["30mm", "120mm", "60mm", "150mm"], fillColor: addUnnamedColor([51, 78, 0], -1)}); // will be a Lab because of the 1
p.textFrames.add({contents: "CMYK", geometricBounds: ["60mm", "0mm", "90mm", "30mm"], fillColor: addUnnamedColor([82, 72, 0, 0])}); // will be a CMYK because there are 4 color values
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p.textFrames.add({contents: "CMYK", geometricBounds: ["60mm", "60mm", "90mm", "90mm"], fillColor: addUnnamedColor([84, 90,40, 0], ColorSpace.CMYK)}); // will be a CMYK
p.textFrames.add({contents: "CMYK", geometricBounds: ["60mm", "90mm", "90mm", "120mm"], fillColor: addUnnamedColor([67, 53, 97.6, 21.7], "c")}); // will be a CMYK
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function addUnnamedColor (cValue, space, docToAddColor) {
    docToAddColor = app.documents.length && (docToAddColor || (app.properties.activeDocument && app.activeDocument) || app.documents[0]);
    if (!docToAddColor) return;
    var lastColor = docToAddColor.colors[-1];
    if (!cValue) cValue = [0,0,0,0];
    if (space == 1129142603 || cValue && cValue.length == 4) space = ColorSpace.CMYK;
    else if ((space && space < 0) || space && space == 1665941826 || (space && /L|-/i.test(space.toString())) || (cValue && /-/.test(cValue ))) space = ColorSpace.LAB;
    else if ((space && space > 0) || space && space == 1666336578 || (space && /R/i.test(space.toString())) || (cValue && cValue.length == 3)) space = ColorSpace.RGB;
    else space = ColorSpace.CMYK;
    app.doScript (
        var newUnnamedColor = (lastColor.name == "") ? lastColor.duplicate() : taggedColor();
        newUnnamedColor.properties = {space: space, colorValue: cValue};
        ScriptLanguage.javascript,
        undefined,
        UndoModes.FAST_ENTIRE_SCRIPT
     function taggedColor() { // need to use this if no unnamed exists
             var tagString = "<ASCII-" + ($.os[0] == "M" ? "MAC>\r " : "WIN>\r ") + "<cColor:COLOR\:CMYK\:Process\:0.1\,0.95\,0.3\,0.0><cColor:>"; // would make more sense to apply the correct value in the tagged text file but I can't be bothered !
             var tempFile = new File (Folder (Folder.temp) + "/ " + (new Date).getTime() + ".txt");
             tempFile.open('w');
             tempFile.write(tagString);
             tempFile.close();
             var tempFrame = docToAddColor.pages[-1].textFrames.add();
             $.sleep(250);
             tempFrame.place(tempFile);
             tempFrame.remove();
             tempFile.remove();
         return docToAddColor.colors[-1];
    return newUnnamedColor;
Shall apply the function to delete and replace swatch on the other thread at a more sane time
Regards
Trevor

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dkukar wrote:
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