Set textframe fillcolor to the registration color

Question

Hi Community

I am trying to get my textframes into the registration color form my swatches, but VS shows me this messages:

I already tried:

text.textRange.characterAttributes.fillColor = doc.swatches[1].color;

text.textRange.characterAttributes.fillColor = doc.swatches['[Registration]'].color;

text.textRange.fillColor = doc.swatches[1].color;

text.textRange.fillColor = doc.swatches['[Registration]'].color;

The image above is just to show how I tried to look for an alert msg and what does it gets but shows error.

can anybody help me? Thank you

AntonioPacheco · Accepted Answer

I did it! I just changed somethign in your function, this line:

return doc.swatches[i];

to this:

return doc.swatches[i].color;

Then, in the code I did:

text.textRange.characterAttributes.fillColor = getRegistrationSwatch(doc);

m1b · Answer

I'm not sure why the code in your screen shot is getting that error. Perhaps the document has the registration swatch named differently (different locales name is differently). Try this function and see if it works:

var doc = app.activeDocument;
var regColor = getRegistrationSwatch(doc);


/**
 * Returns the document's Registration swatch.
 * @9397041 {Document} doc - an Illustrator Document
 * @Returns {Swatch}
 */
function getRegistrationSwatch(doc) {

    for (var i = 0; i < doc.swatches.length; i++)

        if (
            doc.swatches[i].color.typename == 'SpotColor'
            && doc.swatches[i].color.spot.colorType == ColorModel.REGISTRATION
        )
            return doc.swatches[i];

};

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