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Remove ALL unused colors from ALL open docs

Forum|Forum|6 years ago
December 4, 2019
2 replies
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Hello,

Is there any way to have InDesign Select ALL unused Colors and Delete them automatically from ALL open documents?

Best,

Babs

Correct answer rob day

You can use either javascript or AppleScript. If you want to compile with Script Editor this Applescript will work:

tell application "Adobe InDesign CC 2018"
	repeat with x in every document
		tell x
			delete unused swatches
		end tell
	end repeat
end tell

rob day

Correct answer

Community Expert

You can use either javascript or AppleScript. If you want to compile with Script Editor this Applescript will work:

tell application "Adobe InDesign CC 2018"
	repeat with x in every document
		tell x
			delete unused swatches
		end tell
	end repeat
end tell

iBabs2Author

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Hi Rob_day,

That worked great.....

I also just got this one here..

tell application "Adobe InDesign CC 2018"

repeat with i in every document

set active document to i

tell front document

set UnusedSwatches to unused swatches

repeat with UnusedSwatch from 1 to count of UnusedSwatches

try

delete UnusedSwatches

end try

end repeat

end tell

end repeat

end tell

Both work well for this...

Thanks everyone!!!!!
Babs

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Hi,

here is a modified script that is based on a script that I found somewhere in the old forum.

var allDocs = app.documents;

for (var i = 0; i < allDocs.length; i++) {
	trashUnusedSwatch (allDocs[i]);
}

function trashUnusedSwatch(myDocument){
	var id, sw;
	
    while (myDocument.unusedSwatches[0].name != "") {

            id = myDocument.unusedSwatches[0].id;

            sw = myDocument.swatches.itemByID(id);

            sw.remove();

        }

    }

iBabs2Author

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Hello and thank you!

However, I was not able to compile the code without an error?

I was able to find this script below and I added it to my scripts in InDesign and it works for the current open document, but, trying to figure out how to write it so it does the action to ALL open docs..

tell application "Adobe InDesign CC 2018"

tell active document

delete unused swatches

end tell

I assume changing "active Document" to something else, might work, but everything I try will not compile.

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you ,

Babs

L

Laubender

Community Expert

Hi Babs,

crazyPanda's code is not AppleScript code.

It's for ExtendScript (JavaScript).

How to work with ExtendScript-code:

http://www.indiscripts.com/pages/help#hd0sb2

FWIW: It will remove all unused swatches that are named.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

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