Comments on: Share Swatches Between CS2 Applications Without Recreating Them

By: photoshop-T

photoshop-T — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:17:16 +0000

Most people don’t even know where Adobe Swatch Exchange is, but I do love this feature

By: Bryan B

Bryan B — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 20:23:29 +0000

AM -great function use it all day…
Deny,
try to delete the unwanted color ,and use the replace color with… dialog to select the new (replacement) color.I should mention this only works if you have already created the replacement color.

By: Deny

Deny — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 14:09:00 +0000

AM, thanks for the response, I thought that might be the case. I have several documents that need to have up to 10 colors deleted & replaced with one color, was hoping not to have to delete them manually & replace with the one color, but maybe thats a function they can add someday. (PS I am an ID convert!) ANd thanks for your very helpful site.

By: Anne-Marie

Anne-Marie — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 04:11:19 +0000

Deny, there’s no stand-alone Append command in ID as there is in QXP. But a lot of the palette menus — including the Swatches palette menu — have a “Load” command that lets you import things from another ID file, just like an Append. So choosing Load Swatches from the palette menu (and double-clicking on another ID doc in the resulting dialog box) will add/import that doc’s swatches to your existing doc’s Swatches palette.

Other palettes’ Load commands, like the Paragraph and Character Styles ones, put up an intermediary dialog box that looks very Append-like, allowing you to pick and choose which styles from another doc you want to import.

But one of my favorite ways to import colors from another ID doc is to choose New Color Swatch from the Swatches palette, and from the dropdown Color Mode menu, choose Other Library from the end of the list. Double-click another ID doc and its colors open like a Pantone library, allowing you to add just the ones you want.

By: Deny

Deny — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 03:20:18 +0000

Question, I am searching for the ID version of the QUARK command append colors. Is this export, import function the only way & does it replace existing swatches. Ill keep searching

By: Hanneke

Hanneke — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 12:49:42 +0000

Daniel, thank you very much for the tip, you are the best!
kind, regards, Hanneke

By: Kacey Crouch

Kacey Crouch — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 14:36:16 +0000

To piggy-back on Daniel’s comment: This works with gradients too!

By: Daniel Rodney

Daniel Rodney — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 05:17:43 +0000

This is a fantastic new feature that I’ve taught many people. But on other fast way to import color swatches from Illustrator to InDesign is:
1. Copy an object in Illustrator.
2. Paste it into InDesign.
3. You can then delete the Illustrator Object that you pasted into InDesign and the swatch remains!
That’s what I call Suite (oh, I mean sweet).