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Contentbee
Inspiring
February 17, 2017
Question

Swatch manager won´t load swatches ...???

  • February 17, 2017
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I´m preparing a theme for a customer, using theme colors as well as .ASE color swatches (we use swatches additional, because the customes CI color palette uses much more colors than the theme colors can handle). But unfortunately some of my clients cannot load the swatches in the swatch manager! They use the load button in the swatch manager, select the ASE file, but nothing happens. On some computers it´s working, on some not. I´ve checked for administrator rights, if they can add files into the Gallery folder, and that´s working fine. But not the swatches. Any other idea?

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Lilybiri
Lilybiri
Legend
February 17, 2017

Hmmm, I don't use the Swatch manager anymore since a while because I don't think that having more than 10 colors + 50 tints will add quality to a project. The only workaround I see is to enter the individual swatches instead of loading the ASE. For previous versions I explained the use of ASE, but since the problem is not consistent, it would be just guessing.

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ContentbeeAuthor
Inspiring
February 17, 2017

Yeah, I´m on your side when it comes to 50 shades of whatever color But as it is, my customers CI provides not only one darkblue which they use for their logo, but additonal 5 shades of blue, 7 shades of grey, and 4 secondary colors which come with 3 shades each. Add black and white and we have 27 colors which must be provided in Captivate, because the users MUST NOT use any other color or any other than the defined shade.

So, what did you mean with "enter the individual swatches"?

Lilybiri
Lilybiri
Legend
February 17, 2017

Use the Color Picker, which is available in the Swatch Manager, you can enter either the RGB values (which you have first maybe to convert if they offered you CMYK values) or the hexadecimal value for a wanted swatch to be added:

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