December 15 2009 • 9:55 PM
By:
Anne-Marie Concepcion and David Blatner
InDesignSecrets Podcast 115
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- InDesignSecrets Conference!
- Find where that color is used
- Separations Preview panel
- Swatches panel tricks
- Find/Change
- Package Summary panel (thanks Nicola!)
- Blatner Tools
- Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Instructions
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Links mentioned in this podcast:
> Blatner Tools 1.0 is officially released!
> Original post about Finding Colors, also discussed in Podcast 85
Here a trick available only in Cs4 to find/locate any object in Indesign that use a specific spot color.
- Create a Live Preflight Profile with ONLY the [Color > Color Spaces and Modes Not Allowed > Spot Color] check.
- Use that profile, and bring the Preflight panel
- Now all error the panel will display is the indesign and placed assets using spot color. From the panel you can see a page number (in blue) that is a link you can click to go directly on that page.
But now… with Blatner Tool. We have a bunch more!
JC, thanks, but I believe that only finds text or graphics with ANY spot color. It doesn’t really help if you have 4 spot colors in a document, and you’re trying to figure out where you used Pantone 114… or worse, if you have Pantone 114C and also 114M listed, you may wonder where each is used.
David, you are right that this will flag graphics & objects with ANY spot color. But you can do the opposite trick described in the original post, by using the ink manager to turn All spot to Process Except the One you want to search for.
FYI, I just wrote up a “how to” on how to automate really impossible headers using Power Headers. I hope you grok GREP, or your head might really hurt…
http://in-tools.com/wordpress/indesign/plugins/power-headers/composite-headers-never-before-possible
In your Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week listing at the top of this page, you indicate that the feature is “information” whereas the podcast actually talks about “instructions”.
You could confuse a stupid person (like me) into searching endlessly for “information” in the package dialog box and its consequent boxes!
@Furry: Oops! Sorry about that. I changed it to Instructions in the post above. I guess we were just typing too fast.