color palette

[fielden lundy]

I know there is a way to select all unused colors in the swatches palette of a document. Is there a way to fill the palette with only the colors used/present in the document?

fielden

[warking@mac.com]

Illustartor automatically fills it's pallet with any color found in the document except process colors.

[fielden lundy]

I don't find this to be true.

If I have a color in the palette and I make a tint of it, the new tint does not appear in the palette. If I choose a custom color for an object in my artwork, that color does not automatically appear.

Perhaps I'm mising something?

Thanks,

Fielden

[Scott Weichert]

Currently there is no automated method to add colors used in a document to the Swatches Palette. Only spot colors or global colors chosen from an external library will be automatically added to the Swatches Palette.

This has been a long standing feature request on the part of many users. I have my fingers crossed for CS3.

[fielden lundy]

Thanks, Scott. My fingers are crossed too!

Fielden

[Ammar Midani]

I find Bridge is showing all swatches, cool feature cooming from a dull tool.

[Scott Weichert]

Update on this. CS3 will allow you to select any artwork and add it's colors as a Color Group to the Swatches Panel.

[Paths]

Is there any reason that CS3 will fail to recognize swatches that no longer are used? I switched some pantone colours and then try to 'select all unused' - but it would not select the old ones. I had to manually remove them.

Any ideas?

[Scott Weichert]

Generally, a "used" swatch means anything in a symbol, brush, graphic style, or if it's set as a current fill/stroke in the color palette. It could also be used a a fill.stroke and set to 0% which will appear as white, but it really isn't.

[Paths]

I think an unused (previously used - but since expanded) brush is the culprit. Thanks for bringing that to my attention. I'm at a different computer right now- but I bet that was the cause. Mistery solved! Thanks!

[JDub]

When trying to get down to what is in the document, I select it all, cut, new doc - same page dimensions - draw a box, paste in front.
If the color is still there, it is there and 'rogue'.
I usually have this prob w/spots heading for a sep.
I'll draw a box w/the offending color as stroke and fill, then select same stroke color followed by select same fill.
That usually finds 'em.
And usually, it's a stray point.

j