Double clicking swatch in CC Library adds magenta swatch to my doc

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
July 26, 2024
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It's exactly as the subject says. 90% of the swatches in my CC library have this same behavior.

I want to edit the swatch in my CC library, so I double click on it in the Libraries panel.

No color well pop up opens, but when I look at my Colors panel, there's a brand new magenta swatch.

If I double click the swatch again, same thing happens.

Anybody else noticing this behavior? It's one more straw breaking this camel's back.

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Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

The problem was reported since 2017. spot as well as global colors have this problem:

https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447-illustrator-desktop-bugs/suggestions/34291627-pantone-solid-spot-colors-added-from-indesign-to-a

And:

https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447-illustrator-desktop-bugs/suggestions/31943515-global-process-colors-get-added-twice-when-added-f

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PavementiAuthor

Participant

This is so maddening. What are their developers doing all day long? Why would we ever care about the new features at Adobe MAX when they are so bad at cleaning up their current releases?

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

It puzzles me too why this has not been fixed after all these years.

Global colors, gradients and pattern swatches and brushes are not supported in CC libraries.

But as a workaround you can drag an object filled with a pattern/gradient/global color to the CC Library.

You can also drag multiple items filled with different patterns/gradients/global colors together into a CC library to simulate a library.

The easiest way to add them to a new document is to hold down the Alt key when you drag them from the library and place them in a new document. The patterns/gradients/global colors automatically get added to your swatches panel.

You can hit escape before you click to place the object(s) or delete the dragged library items because the swatches are now part of the document.

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