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studio172
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January 20, 2017
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Make a color hidden.

  • January 20, 2017
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Hello!

Does anyone know if it's possible to make a color with scripting that doesn't show up in the swatches panel of indesign?

greetings,

Stefan

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Correct answer Laubender

Hi Stefan,

see this post and the following:

Re: Coloring a Font with a RGB etc. without adding the color to the document swatches.

Regards,
Uwe

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studio172Author
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January 20, 2017

Yes true, there are hidden colors in the indesign model (indeed more colors in the color-collection than in the swatch-panel)...

The thing is: I was adding a gradient to indesign. To make the colorstops i have to make colors first and then assign them to the colorstops. And now the colorstops show up in the swatches panel (which i don't want... i only want the gradient to show up).

But if i remove the colors after having completed the gradient, the gradient goes wrong (all colorstops go to black...)

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LaubenderCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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January 20, 2017

Hi Stefan,

see this post and the following:

Re: Coloring a Font with a RGB etc. without adding the color to the document swatches.

Regards,
Uwe

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    studio172Author
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    January 20, 2017

    Great Uwe!!!

    Thanks a lot! I've been banging my head on this problem for days!

    This does the trick:

    var myUnnamedColor = app.activeDocument.colors[-1].duplicate();

    (kind of strange though... an index of -1?)

    Loic.Aigon
    Loic.Aigon
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    January 20, 2017

    I ma not sure about that lthough I was told (and checked) that there was (is it still there ?) a bug that when you did something in the swatch panel (maybe add a swatch or something like that), then extra colors were added without showing up. I mean you could have 10 swatches visually in the panel but 12 colors in the collection of colors.

    But anyway, I doubt you could reproduce this per scripting (unless I am wrong) but if you intend to use a color only for a temporary purpose, the, you could create it, use it, save/export or whatever operation, then remove the color.

    FWIW

    Loic

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