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Richard35057531tccj
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January 26, 2024
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Randomise high contrast swatches

  • January 26, 2024
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Here's a weird and very specific query you may be able to help with...

I have a page of text, with each text box coloured spot colour grey 1, 2, 3 and 4, all slightly different tones of grey.. So it is very tricky to see where each grey is used when the page is printed.

I want to run a script or something that will remix all swatches without renaming them, so that those 4 'grey' swatches are each boldly coloured... perhaps one pure red, one blue, one magenta etc. Something to make identifying the usage easy. Is there a way that I'm not finding?

 

Appreciate help in advance!

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Correct answer CarlosCanto

Cool! I assume I can add as many colours in as required as long as I update the 'colordiscard' lines?


the script will process any number of swatches as long as source and destination swatch groups have the same number of swatches

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CarlosCanto
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CarlosCantoCommunity Expert
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January 27, 2024

Here's one way,

 

- deselect all

- click and drag any bright swatch, press Alt key while you drag, drop it on top of one of the Gray swatches.

- repeat for all other Gray swatches

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Richard35057531tccjAuthor
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January 29, 2024

Thanks Carlos, but as this is for every job I'm looking for something I can automate, with an eye to have my Esko workflow then action this as part of a larger workflow.

CarlosCanto
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CarlosCantoCommunity Expert
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January 29, 2024

ok, I can put something together. A script can change the grey spot color values.

 

I would create two color groups before running the script, one with your gray colors and another with the colors you want to replace them with. Then the script will replace the color values from the "source" to the "destination" color groups

 

would that work for you?

 

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