Select all paths of a specific color in one document

Question

Hi,
I'm on Illy CS2, windows xp.
I want to open a doc, run a script that selects all paths of a color, say 255,0,0 or 50,0,20,4 and changes that color to black or another color I specify and also changes the stroke. Is this possible? I can't see how i would do it?
Thanks in advance,
Stan

Answer 1

Unfortunatly there is no getByColor method - below is a clunky way to get an array of objects that match a provided CMYK color : <br /><br />// Color you want to match<br /><br />myColor = new CMYKColor();<br />myColor.black = 50;<br />myColor.cyan = 0;<br />myColor.magenta = 0;<br />myColor.yellow = 0;<br /><br />foundObjects = getSameColor("ALL",myColor);<br /><br />function CMYKMatch(control,test)<br />{<br />     if (test.black == control.black && test.cyan == control.cyan && test.magenta == control.magenta && test.yellow == control.yellow)<br />     {<br />          return true;<br />     } else { <br />          return false;<br />     }     <br />}<br /><br />function getSameColor(type,color)<br />{<br />     var results = new Array();<br />     if (type != "FILL" || type != "STROKE" || type != "ALL")<br />     {<br />               myArt = app.activeDocument.pageItems;<br />               for(var i = 0; i<myArt.length;i++)<br />               {<br />                         if (myArt[i].typename != "TextFrame") <br />                         {<br />                              if (type == 'FILL' || type == 'ALL') {<br />                                   if (CMYKMatch(color, myArt[i].fillColor)) { results.push(myArt[i]); }<br />                              }<br />                              if(type == 'STROKE' || type == 'ALL') {<br />                                   if (CMYKMatch(color,myArt[i].strokeColor)) { results.push(myArt[i]); }<br />                              }<br />                         }     <br />               }<br />     }<br />     return results;<br /><br />}