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March 8, 2024
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change colors

  • March 8, 2024
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I have a project with 750 pages which I carried out on INDESIGN and I want to change the 7 colors which exist in this project into another 7 colors is there a possibility of finding a script?

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Peter Spier
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Community Expert
March 8, 2024

As an alternative to redefining the swatches (for pnatone colors, for example), you can create new swatches, then delete the old ones one by one and in the dialog choose to replace with one of the new swatches.

As I recall, changing colors in this way will only work for objects created in InDesign. If you've imported art from other programs using the origiinal swatches you may have to edit the art.

m1b
Community Expert
Community Expert
March 8, 2024

The first question is: did you use swatches for the 7 existing colors?

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March 8, 2024

yes

John D Herzog
Inspiring
March 8, 2024

Then my question comes up. What is stopping you from changing the colors of the swatches? Everything in the file that is associated to that swatch will change as well.

John D Herzog
Inspiring
March 8, 2024

Can you not change the colors of the swatches? That should be the easiest.