Script to Change swatch CMYK values

Are there any scripts available to change CMYK values of swatches for files in CS3?
I have hundreds, probably thousands of Illustrator EPS files that use swatches all drawn from a total palette of maybe 50 colours.
Each colour is named and has a corresponding CMYK value.
I want to update the CMYK values for all ~50 colours that appears across all these documents. Is there some way I can simply change the CMYK spec of the swatches used by each of these documents by not having to manually open and change the colours etc?
Even a script would be good that could batch process the files?
For example:
File contains a swatch as a named colour like:
Fire Red spec'd as 0, 96, 99, 0
I want to automate changing the CMYK values for all files containing Fire Red to, say, 0, 98, 99, 0
Any ideas? I have searched Google for a couple of days.
Edit: the flavour here is Illustrator for CS3 - both Win and Mac.

I understand EXACTLY what you mean as it's the same thing I need to do, and will probably need to do on future occasions.
Did you get anywhere with this problem?
I have designed a scheme for a textbook I am illustrating (this is what I do for a living and have been doing so for well over a decade using Illustrator).
All colours used in every illustration are based on 7 CMYK Global swatches, usually 100% tints but also 50% 75% and others when required.
Anyway I have done 100 illustrations already based on my template when I realize I'm going to have to darken the green by +10% cyan.
What I need is a script to change the definition of my global 'green' swatch in every document from 100Y 30C to 100Y 40C.
Actions won't do it.
Any suggestions?

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I am wondering if there is a way, in Illustrator CS2, to
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I would like to be able to choose from a predefined series of color schemes the color combination desired for the working file and have the CMYK value of the named spot color swatches changed to coincide with the selected combination (as opposed to manually selecting each swatch and entering the CMYK values).
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This is the current code i use to change the RGN values to the CMYK is: I have entered the RGB and CMYK values as they need to be changed and it works but the swatch pallette ends up looking messy! See below.
var myIDOc = app.activeDocument;
var mySwatch = myIDOc.swatches;
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         if(mySwatch[j].space ==ColorSpace.RGB){
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                 mySwatch[j].name = "C=" + myCV[48] + " M=" + myCV[72] +" Y=" + myCV[0] + " K=" + myCV[0];
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var myIDOc = app.activeDocument;
var mySwatch = myIDOc.swatches;
for (var j=4; j<mySwatch.length; j++){
    try{
         if(mySwatch[j].space ==ColorSpace.RGB){
             if(mySwatch[j].name=="Word_R255_G0_B255"){// may be this is correct you can check the indesign swatches name
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                 var myCV = mySwatch[j].colorValue=[0,100,0,0];
                 mySwatch[j].name = "C=" + myCV[0] + " M=" + myCV[100] +" Y=" + myCV[0] + " K=" + myCV[0];
         }catch(e){alert(e)}
var myIDOc = app.activeDocument;
var mySwatch = myIDOc.swatches;
for (var j=4; j<mySwatch.length; j++){
    try{
         if(mySwatch[j].space ==ColorSpace.RGB){
             if(mySwatch[j].name=="Word_R0_G0_B255"){// may be this is correct you can check the indesign swatches name
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var mySwatch = myIDOc.swatches;
for (var j=4; j<mySwatch.length; j++){
    try{
         if(mySwatch[j].space ==ColorSpace.RGB){
             if(mySwatch[j].name=="Word_R255_G255_B255"){// may be this is correct you can check the indesign swatches name
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                 mySwatch[j].name = "C=" + myCV[0] + " M=" + myCV[0] +" Y=" + myCV[0] + " K=" + myCV[0];
         }catch(e){alert(e)}
var myIDOc = app.activeDocument;
var mySwatch = myIDOc.swatches;
for (var j=4; j<mySwatch.length; j++){
    try{
         if(mySwatch[j].space ==ColorSpace.RGB){
             if(mySwatch[j].name=="Word_R0_G0_B0"){// may be this is correct you can check the indesign swatches name
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                 var myCV = mySwatch[j].colorValue=[0,0,0,100];
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var mySwatch = myIDOc.swatches;
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         if(mySwatch[j].space ==ColorSpace.RGB){
             if(mySwatch[j].name=="Word_R234_G229_B255"){// may be this is correct you can check the indesign swatches name
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babeanz

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There has been no change to RGB, and although the document contains some spot color, it is the CMYK swatches that are the problem.
Considering this document is subject to yearly revisions, I would like the colors to be stable. I want C-100, M-0, y-79, K-60 to stay that way, and not come up like they are, which is C-100, M-0, Y-78.91, K-59.77. My color space is Web Coated (SWOP) v2.
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Color management.
Hi, I am struggling to understand why Illustrator is changing the values inside the RGB and CMYK boxes. I am also not sure of the exact relationship between these values. Essentially, it appears that if you set the Document Color Mode to RGB, it leaves the RGB values that you type in alone. If you set the Document Color Mode to CMYK, it leaves the CMYK values alone.
An Ai document can be either RGB or CMYK. The colors follow the document color mode and thus are converted immediately if they don't match.
But as soon as you change the Color Mode, it automatically modifies the values. So if you were in RGB mode and you set some RGB values, it changes those RGB values when you switch to CMYK mode. And vice versa.
Same reason.
I had thought that the CMYK palette was a subset of the RGB palette. It would make sense to me if it did this when I switched from RGB to CMYK mode, but it doesn't make sense to me why it does this when I switch from CMYK to RGB mode.
It's not. CMYK color spaces (there are more than just one) are normally smaller than RGB color spaces, but they aren't a "subset".
The other thing I am confused about is the relationship of the values in the RGB boxes to the values in the CMYK boxes. I would have thought that the relationship between them would be static. Actually, it is not. When I am in CMYK mode and I enter a CMYK value of 90 16 0 0, the RGB values become 0 158 222. But when I switch over to RGB mode, the RGB values of 0 158 222 result in CMYK values of 75 23 0 0.
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>> [...] but when I sample a color in P'shop, I get a
PMS color that's a near
>> match. Trouble is, when I assign that same color in
FreeHand, it looks much
>> darker and not the same color at all.
>
> What are your color management settings is FH? Are you
on a PC or a Mac? Are
> you using ColorSync?
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nicer to work if is set just right.
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Thanks!

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                    set sw to every swatch
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But I'm coming across this weirdness:
If I get properties of an item, I can see that the color of a given stroke is:
stroke color:{class:CMYK color info, cyan:0.0, Zoom:100.0, yellow:100.0, black:0.0}
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tell
application "Adobe Illustrator"
tell
current document
tell
layer 1
set theList
to
every
page item
of
it
repeat
with x
from 1
to
count
of
items
in theList
repeat
with k
from 1
to
count
of theList
if
stroke color
of
item k
of theList = {
class:
CMYK color info,
cyan:0.0,
zoom:100.0,
yellow:100.0,
black:0.0}
then
display dialog "hey"
end
if
end
repeat
end
tell
end
tell
end
tell

Thanks Simon and Larry. The problem was one of my OSAXs. I removed my scripting additions and restarted and the mysterious "Zoom" is gone. We're back to magenta in the magenta slot.
Now the script works perfectly. Two follow-up questions though, if you have time:
1. I want to make sure where Larry was going with his setting "selected of item k" to true. It sounds like the plan is to iterate though all objects, select those that meet the criteria and then change that criteria (in this case a color property) once. Is this faster than a script that would find an object and change its color property before moving on and finding the next object? Is one way better than the other for any other reasons?
2. This one's tougher. I've noticed that if I create a CMYK swatch in AI and then apply that swatch to an object and then get properties of that object, the CMYK values of that object differ minutely from what I created. For example, if I create a C=10, M=20, Y=30, K=40 swatch and then get properties on an object I've applied it to, the color might actually be:
stroke color:{class:CMYK color info, cyan:10.000002384186, magenta:19.999998807907, yellow:30.000001192093, black:39.999997615814}
I guess this probably has something to do with color space or gamuts or something. But what I really want to know is can how I can test for a color that I think is 10/20/30/40 and find it even if it's really 10.000002384186/19.999998807907/30.000001192093/39.999997615814.
Is the only way to do this to get the color info for an item into a list or record and then round them to nearest 2-digit number or is there an easier way to handle this?
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I dont know what my color settings are at this point.
I download the Kuler color theme straight from the Kuler panel open on my desktop. I open
the drop down menu options and choose: add this theme to your color swatches. The
theme is moved over to the swatch panel while I am using Illustrator.
I don't know what you mean by your last question.

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