sbtype Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 I'm a new user, coming from Illustrator. Unless I've missed something there seem to be some oversights in Designer's colour handling. 1. I can Create Palette From Document to add used colour swatches, but these are always non-Global swatches. Although I can then convert them to Global swatches, the illustration colours aren't linked to these swatches. Illustrator correctly creates Global swatches when the Add Used Colors / Add Selected Colors command is used. In commercial design work it's common to have to edit colours in an existing file, and Add Used Colors is used a lot, for example to remove any 4-colour blacks or find incorrect colour mixes. 2. Likewise Select All Unused is a commonly used command in Illustrator. When preparing files for printing it's useful to be able to see exactly which colours appear in a file and to be able to delete and edit them. Illustrator has a strange way of doing this, where you Merge swatches. Personally I think Indesign handles this better, using a dialogue box. 3. Illustrator's Select Same (Fill, Stroke, Stroke Weight) command is also something that gets a lot of use, for line drawings and diagrams. I've added a comment to a different thread that is a feature request for this. 4. Not as important, but it is useful to be able to see colour splits without editing the colour swatch. Indesign has a Name With Color Value option and shows the CMYK mix when you mouse over the swatch. Illustrator uses the CMYK values as the default name when creating a new Global swatch. AndyQ and Megnusin 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbtype Posted December 5, 2019 Author Share Posted December 5, 2019 Sorry, this should have been posted un the Feedback forum. https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/forum/53-feedback-for-affinity-designer-on-desktop/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Dan C Posted December 5, 2019 Staff Share Posted December 5, 2019 8 minutes ago, sbtype said: Sorry, this should have been posted un the Feedback forum. I've moved this thread for you sbtype 1 Quote Please note - I am currently out of the office for a short while whilst recovering from surgery (nothing serious!), therefore will not be available on the Forums during this time. Should you require a response from the team in a thread I have previously replied in - please Create a New Thread and our team will be sure to reply as soon as possible. Many thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prophet Posted March 18, 2021 Share Posted March 18, 2021 +1 bump for "Select All Unused" swatches for Designer and Publisher. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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