Spot color used in indesign document
Hi all,
How to find spot color used (text, frame and any othe item) in Indesign document.
Please help me to write javascript code.
thanks,
mon
'unusedSwatches' -- sure. Removing these will leave just the used ones (something like that was asked a while ago). But it seems the OP wants to know where the remaining ones are in use.
Graphic objects can be tested per Loic's script, but each and every single table cell fill and stroke needs to be checked, and for text I can't think of anything else than explicitly searching for fill & stroke.
The OP needs to 'find' spot color usages, which is rather unclear in the context of a script. Find it -- and then what? Report? Highlight/select? (Which doesn't work when more than a single occurence is found.) Change to another color?
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var docRef = app.activeDocument;
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I used the following code to find the spot color used in the document.
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Checking applied color must be scan all objects!! of the document,
Here is a code, it scans texts and frame objects(Text Frame, Rectangle,,,,)
but not support table and cell.
mg
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var doc = app.activeDocument;
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var flag = 0;
for (var i=0; i < mySwatch.length; i++){
if (mySwatch[i].model == ColorModel.SPOT){
flag += 1;
if ( flag > 1 ){
check_spot(doc);
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for (var tsi=0, tsiL=tsr_obj.length; tsi < tsiL ; tsi++) {
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Dear Spot Color Printing Gods......... Please Help Me!
Ok so here is my story...
I have been doing graphic design and 3D work for about 7 years. I have NEVER worked in print before, and no NOTHING of color separation or spot color, etc... I am learning all this right now on the fly for my new job, and its not going well. I was hired and expected to hit the ground running, even though I made it clear I did not have any screen printing experience. (I was mainly hired to help with web design) I have had some mistakes doing the color separation (not 4 color) and its costing the printer money to see if I did it wrong or not. The printer has no experience with the software (and only speaks English fairly well), nor does my boss know the software, but they both know how its SUPPOSED to look, and they are getting impatient.. Needless to say, I have to turn to the internet for help, so please be gentle with me not knowing much...
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~LiQSome misconceptions evidenced in your post.
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Map Spot Color to Another Spot Color in Acrobat 9?
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I know that I could do this in Pitstop but that would take more keystrokes and the way I do it in Acrobat 8 is much quicker and more efficient.
Am I missing something with Acrobat 9? Can someone tell me how to achieve this in an easier way using Acrobat 9? How about in Acrobat 10 - is it any easier?
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Glenntell application "Adobe Illustrator"
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Mixing Spot Colors & Spot and CMYK
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In CS6 I have been having random situations where the spot color channels are not saved when saving a .psd, regardless of the settings in the save dialog box. Any idea of why this might be happening? I've even had the program dump the spot colors from a multichannel document today while trying to find a workaround. I considered converting the spot colors to alpha channels as well, but there doesn't seem to be an obvious way to do that. Odd, as alpha to spot color conversion is just a radio button away. Any help would be appreciated, thanks!
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JLG. -
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