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adding an indesign page from a document as an image into another indesign document

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July 5, 2021
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Hi

I have inserted an indesign page from a document as an image into another indesign document. The trouble is that the colors don´t match so

I would like to change the colors of the inserted page to the ones seen in the indesign document. I have watched this 4- minute long video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyzjaFfWKBg and everything is pretty clear until my issue is explained starting around minute 2:30. I

tried to follow the steps but my colors aren´t added to the swatches option as in the video. Could anyone explain how to carry out this operation?

Thank you very much fo

How to

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Barb Binder

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Hi @Ignacio5C4E:

Yes, I can help but can you clarify which one you are doing? Copying frames with a colored fill like Erica's video or copying frames with image inside?

If images:

Here's an explanation on how to use the Eyedropper tool to capture a single color:

https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/apply-color.html#apply_colors_using_the_eyedropper_tool

And an explanation of how to use the Color Theme tool to capture multiple colors at one time:

https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/apply-color.html#apply_colors_using_the_colortheme_tool

~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

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Ignacio5C4EAuthor

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Hi Barb

Thank you so much for your help.This is a screenshot which shows where my text frames are positioned. You can see the orange text frame below and on the next page you can see a text frame in white color. The second page shown here is part of another document and it was imported as an image. The goal is to make the white text frame turn orange by changing its color to orange in the original document. Erica´s video says that all you need to do is copying and pasting between documents but I can´t really see what she´s doing. Once this action is performed in the document where the image came from, she saves the document. Then the change in color to orange can be seen in the text frame within the imported image frame.

rob day

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Is the text frame’s orange fill defined as a swatch? If you picked the fill via the Color Picker or the Color panel without adding it to the Swatches panel it would be an unnamed color and would not appear in the placed document’s Swatches panel when you paste.

Jumpenjax

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You could export the page you need to a pdf. Then either place the pdf into InDesign or open pdf in photoshop flatten and save as jpeg or tiff. Then place into InDesign.

Lee- Graphic Designer, Print Specialist, Photographer

Barb Binder

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Hi @Ignacio5C4E:

I just watched @Erica Gamet's video and tested it out—it worked exactly as she described. Are you copying and pasting frames with a fill or stroke color applied like Erica showed, or are you copying and pasting images? If images, you can use the Eyedropper tool to sample the colors you need, then save the colors in the Swatches panel. You can also select multiple colors from an image at one time using the Color Theme tool and save those as a color group in the Swatches panel.

~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

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Ignacio5C4EAuthor

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Sorry that´s difficult for me. Could you give me a hint to start>?

Thank you so much

Ignacio

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