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October 7, 2026
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Flatten transparency

Flatten transparency not working because its saying i have too many spot colours but i have no spot colours in my art 

    Ton Frederiks
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    October 7, 2026

    ​@Rachel38744444mgd4 I can replicate that  behaviour. 

    If I have more than 27 spot colours in my Swatches panel, I get that message, even if I use only 2 process colours. 

    When you use the Separations Preview, they all get loaded even if you have “Show Used Spot Colors Only” checked.

    You can avoid it by using Select All Unused in the Swatches panel and delete the swatches.

     

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    Ton Frederiks
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    October 8, 2026
    Ton Frederiks
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    Community Expert
    October 7, 2026

    ​@Rachel38744444mgd4 I can replicate that  behaviour. 

    If I have more than 27 spot colours in my Swatches panel, I get that message, even if I use only 2 process colours. 

    When you use the Separations Preview, they all get loaded even if you have “Show Used Spot Colors Only” checked.

    You can avoid it by using Select All Unused in the Swatches panel and delete the swatches.

     

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    October 7, 2026

    thats a bit annoying considering i need all those swatches still in my file. Ill just bring my art into a seperate doc to do it and then bring it back to my original file afterwards. thank you for a speedy response. This solution has worked 

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    Ton Frederiks
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    October 7, 2026

    Good to hear that worked. You could also save the spot colours as a Swatches Library to avoid having them in your Swatches panel.  That way you can load them as a separate panel. 

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    Ton Frederiks
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    October 7, 2026

    ​@Rachel38744444mgd4 Do you have spot colours in your Swatches panel? And does the Window > Separations Preview panel show any?

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