Turn on suggestions
Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type.
Exit
thomaswm1983
Community Beginner
thomaswm1983
Community Beginner
Activity
‎Aug 01, 2018
11:40 AM
Thank you RECfile. That's helpful to know. I can't share any files for NDA reasons, but its still good to narrow it down to possibly having assigned a spot color in the beginning. I've long since changed the swatches to CMYK Process colors and the problem was persisting. But if a spot color swatch maintains the color call out info, even after you change it, then that could very well be the root of the problem. I haven't used InDesign since I finished school 4 years ago and they always hammered home that you should always set your swatches as global spot colors every time you do anything. It was the Art Institute so I've long since learned that they were sometimes full of crap.
... View more
‎Jul 31, 2018
04:01 PM
1 Upvote
Yes. I used styles. It still did the same thing because the style sheets still assign a swatch. I eventually fixed the issue by creating a new file for every team. It was unnecessarily time consuming, but it got the job done.
... View more
‎Jul 31, 2018
10:29 AM
2 Upvotes
I'd hardly call it surviving. More like tolerating until I can dig and escape tunnel. 80% of my design issued fall under the category of "great idea. But pageflex doesn't do that". Or "Pageflex SHOULD do that but for some reason it doesn't want to today"
... View more
‎Jul 31, 2018
10:25 AM
Ok. So I did some tests and I think I've narrowed down the problem. So after it was suggested that it was a problem with the swatch name I made a swatch library of all of the team colors as separate swatches. However, If I have team A set up as TeamAorange and then I replace the team name and recolor it as TeamBred it will export fine as a single page document. As soon as I merge it into multiple pages so that I can send it to a client for proofing it will detect that the same elements in TeamBred were once colored TeamAorange and replace the color with the original swatch. Maybe there is a checkbox somewhere I'm forgetting to unchecked, but this seems like a really silly issue to have in a program designed for multi page documents. I even tried setting up a muti page document and trying it that way instead of combining them in acrobat. But all copy and paste text seems to go back and reference previous colors after i assign a new one. It doesn't happen every time. But I can't seem to narrow down exactly when it will happen to eliminate the issue.
... View more
‎Jul 31, 2018
10:08 AM
1 Upvote
Thanks. Yes I considered all of those factors. I did not have a multiple in design documents. The way its being set up is both as a data merge document for a client and then as a variable data template for our company site that can have information plugged into it. That part is being set up in pageflex. So the actual schedule is saved as a print quality pdf and either referenced in pageflex or linked in an excel sheet so our client can supple a list of names, addresses, and what team they would like and then we set those up using data merge. My problem is that I thought I would save some time making the pdf for the teams by using a single indesign document setup and just copy and pasting new info over the old info then adjusting a global swatch to change all of the team colors at once. I did consider the swatch name issue. I was renaming the swatch to the corresponding color before i saved each time. I even deleted the old swatch and created a completely different one and its still doing it. the only thing i can think of it that for some reason ID has locked in the swatch values from the initial save and is referencing them on every version of that file afterwards. I know the most obvious solution is to just set up a new file every time, but in my office you have to take advantage of anything that could possibly shave a few minutes off of a project so I thought I'd see if there was an actual solution before I commit to just doing it the long way.
... View more
‎Jul 30, 2018
03:19 PM
1 Upvote
Hello all. I've seen multiple color management posts but none that seem to reference my exact issue. I have a multi page in design document I'm using to create variable data templates for some teams with distinct colors. All of the text was created in InDesign. The file is set up to CMYK and the colors are set up to spot colors. I was initially trying to save some time by setting up a spot color swatch that I could globally edit so I wouldn't need a new swatch for every new color. ie: Set up on team >>save>>replace text>>change swatch color>>save...and so on. My problem is that when I export to pdf or merge the files as a multi page pdf so I have all teams as one pdf to send for proofing, it will change the colors to reference other team colors in the file. So one team will be gold and several teams seemingly at random will have all of their colors changed to the same gold. I assumed it was a problem with the swatch being set to a global state so I recolored each layout using a new swatch every time. Same thing happened. The merged file started copying the color of on team into another page. When you try to print the file I prints every team as a single color. I primarily use Ai and never have a problem with my global or spot colors. I'm only using InDesign because I will ultimately need to data merge these on a level that Illustrator can't handle. I've had luck starting from scratch and completely re-doing teams one at a time but I was hoping that someone could shed light on the cause and maybe offer a less time consuming solution. Thanks!
... View more
‎Jul 18, 2018
04:14 PM
I don't know if this has already been covered somewhere on here and I missed it. I have a very large client spreadsheet to put together some mailers. There are a few columns with Y or blank cells for certain certifications that will go on mailers to certain recipients. These are represented by logos. My question is, can i set it up so the correct logo will show up based on the Y designation on the spreadsheet without having to manually go in and place the file location for each corresponding graphic? At the moment the client supplied file has a different column for the three possible graphics with Y or N(left blank) depending on if the graphic is used or not. there are about 5k rows of data so i'd really like it if i didn't have to type them all out. My experience with spreadsheets is very limited so this might be a dumb question.
... View more
Copyright © 2025 Adobe. All rights reserved.
AdChoices