Fill text frame with a non-printable color
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Hello, guys.
Is there a way to fill a text frame with a non-printable color?
Is there a way to create a non-printable swatch/color?
I need to highlight some modified text frames to the editor view them easily.
But I'm afraid someone forget to remove that color, you know?!
Thank you so much!
Hope you can help me with any ideas.
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Hi,
Did you check paragraph shading option in InDesign? It allows you to shade the text or the text in entire frame and that shading can be set to non printable.
Select the text you want the shading behind, and then enable the shading. Alt-click the below shown option to bring up the paragraph shading dialog box
You can then enable the below shown option to make the shading non-printable
You can then get something like
where the yellow color can be set to "Do not print or export"
-Aman
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Yes. But (of course we all ever have a but)...
My client is using InDesign CS6.
Thank you.
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Create a new non-printing layer. Create an object style with a fill color of your choice (I'd recommend something very subtle) and a blend mode of multiply. Experiment to find what works best.
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Thank you so much, Mr. Levine and Aman.
Both your suggestions are great. But don't fit my necessity.
I'll explain why:
The CC feature "paragraph shadow" is brilliant. And the option to do not print that shadow is even more brilliant.
But, my client is working on CS6. That doesn't have this feature.
Bob's suggestion is great too. But the layout will be changed and the filled frames must move together with original ones. So, I need to fill the original ones, but, of course, the colors used to fill those text frames can't be printed.
Now, I'm working on a JavaScript that will read the textFrames I need to fill with color, and then duplicate them to a non-printable layer and then remove that layer, or just fill them and then remove the fill color. I'll need to see in practice which option will fit my client's needs better. This script will just to highlight the frames and then disappear. If the user wants to highlight them again, just run the script again.
I'll let you know my final result.
Thank you so much again.
Regards from Brazil.
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You could use a spot color aliased to the text's print color. With Overprint turned off the spot color shows and with Overprint turned on you see the aliased, the actual print color. So here my highlight color is a spot aliased to process black:
Overprint or Separation Preview turned on:
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Thanks, Rob.
I tried this. But I need to fill the entire frame, not only the text.
If I use a spot color aliased to any option, the entire frame will be
filled with the alias color.
Thank you so much!!!
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You could make a 2nd spot color set to 0|0|0|0 CMYK and alias to that. If you have objects below overprint or Multiply the highlight fill:
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Note that my White spot color is set to Process in Ink Manager
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That's AWESOME!
I'll try right now!!!
Thank you again, Rob!
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When this file is sent to preflight, it'll generate only the 4 CMYK plates?
Or the preflight operator will need to disable the spot plates?
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I'd tested! The PDF only shows the CMYK plates! That's awesome. Absolutely
awesome.
Thank you so much. You helped me a lot!
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Hi,
When I read this:
"I need to highlight some modified text frames to the editor view them easily.
But I'm afraid someone forget to remove that color, you know?!"
… I'm very surprised you go in the way of "all-para" selections!
Not really easy to know what modification has been done in a para!
… And I'm very surprised nobody proposes the use of Conditions!
(^/)
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​​Hello, my friend.
I'll not read all paragraphs. I'll read modifications in pageItem itself.
It's a very very big editorial system.
In fact, I need to read a color that each pageItem has in another module
and replicate the color in InDesign, but withou the risk of printing the
color.
I'm not sure if it is clear...
On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 8:00 PM, Obi-wan Kenobi <forums_noreply@adobe.com>
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2nd point:
When I read this:
"My client is using InDesign CS6."
… I ask myself too: Does nobody know InDesign has a "Revisions control" feature!!
(^/)
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That's definitely not the case.
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Tell the editor he should use InCopy instead and use the commenting tools.
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Done. That's what I need.
Show, sleep and hide. Without any risk of print the colors.
Thank you all for the answers.
I think I can't explain exactly what I need in the first post. Sorry about that.

