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New Participant
June 27, 2023
Question

Importing Swatches Not Working?

  • June 27, 2023
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Version: Adobe Animate 23.0.2

 

Hi everyone, I use swatches very often in my animations because I use a lot of gradients in my work and need to reuse them often. Normally I would export my swatches as a "Animate Color Table File" using the "Save Colors" button in the sandwich menu in the Swatches tab. Then I would click "Replace Colors" (add colors usually works also) and the saved swatches would appear in my new project. However, now, I am still able to create and export swatches but I cannot import them into my project! I click the file I want and literally nothing happens, no message appears, it just closes the file select window. I have tried rolling back to an older version of Adobe Animate but it isn't working (unless I go really far back into the past but I don't want to do that!!) This is really important to me and I need to get this fixed, does anyone know how to fix this or is anyone else having a similar issue? Thank you!!

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    New Participant
    September 15, 2023

    what i'm currently doing is paint one empty frame with  every color (just one single brushstroke for each color). Then copy/paste the frame on the project i need.

    kglad
    Adobe Expert
    June 27, 2023

     for applicable apps, you can make (some) bug reports to adobe here, https://helpx.adobe.com/ie/x-productkb/global/how-to-user-voice.html

     

    for others, use https://www.adobe.com/products/wishform.html

    n. tilcheff
    Brainiac
    June 27, 2023

    Just checked and can confirm that in AA 23.0.2 the CLR file does not load.

    This must be a bug.

    (It works fine in AA 22.0.8)

     

    A simple workaround might be to use a FLA that already has your palette as a starting point.

    Just delete all content and keep it as some kind of a 'template'.

     

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    To add: This is possibly another regression:

    https://helpx.adobe.com/animate/kb/fixed-issues.html

     

     

     

    Nick - Character Designer and Animator, Flash user since 1998 | Member of the Flanimate Power Tools team - extensions for character animation