Illustrator script to remove the unwanted swatches

[Ragav@july2020]

Hi Everyone ,

Im trying to remove the unwanted swatches in my document. But it would not work. Could anyone help me to remove the unwanted swatches in the active document

[Charu Rajput]

Hi,

You can record the action and execute the action using script. I have recorded the action, you can download the action file from. below link and make sure to keep this file on your desktop. Following is the script to execute the action file

Action File 

var actionFile = File(Folder.desktop + "/Delete Unused Swatches.aia");
app.loadAction(actionFile);
app.doScript('Delete Unused Swatches', 'Set 1');
app.unloadAction('Set 1', '');

Let us know if this works for you.

[Ragav@july2020]

Hi Charu,

Thanks for your update. Is there any possible way for delete the unwanted swatches without making actions file?

[Charu Rajput · Accepted solution]

Hi Raghav,

There is no direct API to delete the unused swatches. This possible via action only. There is another way of doing this but in the end it also using actions. Try following code

function unusedSwatch(){
    actionString = [
        '/version 3',
        '/name [ 8',
        '756e757365647377',
        ']',
        '/isOpen 1',
        '/actionCount 1',
        '/action-1 {',
        '/name [ 8',
        '737774636864656c',
        ']',
        '/keyIndex 0',
        '/colorIndex 0',
        '/isOpen 0',
        '/eventCount 2',
        '/event-1 {',
        '/useRulersIn1stQuadrant 0',
        '/internalName (ai_plugin_swatches)',
        '/localizedName [ 8',
        '5377617463686573',
        ']',
        '/isOpen 0',
        '/isOn 1',
        '/hasDialog 0',
        '/parameterCount 1',
        '/parameter-1 {',
        '/key 1835363957',
        '/showInPalette 4294967295',
        '/type (enumerated)',
        '/name [ 17',
        '    53656c65637420416c6c20556e75736564',
        ']',
        '/value 11',
        '}',
        '}',
        '/event-2 {',
        '/useRulersIn1stQuadrant 0',
        '/internalName (ai_plugin_swatches)',
        '/localizedName [ 8',
        '5377617463686573',
        ']',
        '/isOpen 0',
        '/isOn 1',
        '/hasDialog 1',
        '/showDialog 0',
        '/parameterCount 1',
        '/parameter-1 {',
        '/key 1835363957',
        '/showInPalette 4294967295',
        '/type (enumerated)',
        '/name [ 13',
        '    44656c65746520537761746368',
        ']',
        '/value 3',
        '}',
        '}',
        '}'
   ].join('\n')
        $.writeln('hit')
        var f = new File(Folder.desktop + "/unusedsw.aia");
        f.open('w')
        f.write(actionString)
        f.close()
        app.loadAction(f)
        app.doScript('swtchdel','unusedsw')
        app.unloadAction('unusedsw', '');
        f.remove();
}

unusedSwatch();

The difference here is action string is in the code instead of separate file. It also creating a file in the background but also removing it. For me it is almost same solution just a different way of doing that.

[renél80416020]

Salut!

Activer le menu de la palette...

et choisir "Sélectionner les nuances non utilisées

Puis faire glisser la sélection dans la corbeille.

de elleere

[Balaji29756642w38d]

Please upload code unable to downlaod action file. 

[CarlosCanto]

you can record your own Action to try first script, or use the second script Charu posted, that one does not require the action to be present.