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rundenk
rundenk
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February 9, 2017
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Random color (apparently in use) in new indesign documents

  • February 9, 2017
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I keep opening indd docs and when i clean the colours up (delete all unused) i am always left with a 100% cyan colour. there is no evidence of this colour being used anywhere.

Also to support this: when I create a new INDD doc the colour is found in that too. (in use)

thoughts?

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Correct answer Laubender

I think I agree Sandee. I just did a ring around to other designers in other sites and they are having the same glitch.

They all find it terribly annoying


Hi,

there are some threads about this problem here in the forums.

Especially see this one here:

Strange problem: Pasting text to InDesign CC2015 always adds cyan color

Regards,
Uwe

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Steve Werner
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Steve WernerCommunity Expert
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February 9, 2017

100% Cyan is one of the default colors which is included in every print document.

If you open InDesign with no documents open, you can remove swatches and add swatches to choose the swatch colors you'd like in each new document.

rundenk
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February 9, 2017

Yes cyan is one of the defaults but what my issue is my documents all say cyan is in use when it isnt.

I can create a new indd doc and even as a fresh blank doc cyan shows that it is somewhere in use which is impossible because there is nothing in the blank file.

rundenk
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February 10, 2017

The reason it leaves Cyan is that it is used for a particular purpose. It doesn't mean that Cyan is being used on an InDesign page object.

If you've created a paragraph style, and you have added a local override, you can turn on the Style Override Highlighter to show the override. It uses Cyan as the color of highlighting:


I don't think this is the reason. The files have no stylesheets.

If this is the reason then it's odd that indesign would need a swatch in the colour palette to do what would normally be an internal process. It doesn't require swatches to render any other parts of the GUI.

i can provide a file sample if I knew how to.

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