Find Color mode

[sangeethak65390815]

Hai,

     I need to find color mode using indesign scripting. I am searching object model but i can't. Please any one guide me.

thanks in advance,

[BarlaeDC]

Hi,

Can you not infer the Colour Mode based on the name?

only checked in CC 2018, but when you select a Colour Mode you seem to get predictable results:

For example:

Colour Choosen     ---- >   Colour Mode

PANTONE P 1-3 C ---- > PANTONE+ CMYK Coated

PANTONE P 1-3 U --- > PANTONE+ CMYK Uncoated

PANTONE 103 CP --- > PANTONE+ Color Bridge Coated

I haven't checked them all but they appear to have a set naming structure:

PANTONE **Colour Information** CHARACTERCODE

Hope this helps

Malcolm

[Laubender · Accepted solution]

Hi,

what's available is that:

Adobe InDesign CS6 (8.0) Object Model JS: Color

I did not find a way to add a PANTONE color from the repository to a document by scripting.

Method add() of object Color cannot do that.

Regards,
Uwe

[Laubender]

I found a hint in the IDML Specifications. Also did a test with an edited IDMS file where a PANTONE color from the repository was used. InDesign identifies a spot color out of the repositories with a property that is not available by scripting: SwatchCreatorID.

You can check that yourself. Just use PANTONE colors, fill a rectangle, export to IDMS and see for the value of SwatchCreatorID.

From page 264 of idml-specifications.pdf :

Name:

SwatchCreatorID

Type;

int

Required:

No

Description:

The unique ID of the creator (or vendor) of the swatch. SwatchCreatorID is useful when the swatch added is from a color library that InDesign shipped with. The SwatchCreatorID allows InDesign to load the proper color/swatch library quickly. If it is an user defined swatch, it simply defaults to the InDesign SwatchCreatorID.

Ok. That would you give a hint how to add a swatch from a color library. Or to identify one if you come accross one. That would imply to export to IDMS and inspect the IDMS code.

Regards,
Uwe

[Laubender]

Here a hint for exporting IDMS snippets and reading out Property keyValuePair with values for attribute key and attribute value from the snippet file.

Script sample by Loic Aigon ( thank you very much! 😞

Re: List of all scripts labels

That snippet edited using Property Color with attributes Self and SwatchCreatorID should keep you starting, I think.

Then you are able to make the link from the id number to a given color library.

Example: 31520 stands for PANTONE+ CMYK Coated

Regards,
Uwe