Affinity Publisher: Quickly modify an imposed colour

[Pyanepsion]

Hello everyone,

We’re currently working with a document format that uses a specific colour (applied to the background, characters, borders, etc.), selected from a palette defined according to the nature of the document.

Would it be possible to modify this colour in a single operation for all the elements concerned in the document?

Thank you in advance for your expert advice.

Best regards,

[walt.farrell]

Have you considered setting up a Document Palette in your Swatches panel, and defining this color as a Global Color? 

[carl123]

2 hours ago, Pyanepsion said:

Would it be possible to modify this colour in a single operation for all the elements concerned in the document?

It depends on what the elements are

[Pyanepsion]

A dedicated palette has been created in the Swatches menu, with each color representing the collection to which the document belongs.

The main color is applied to various elements of the document, such as the background of text frames, text color, rectangles, borders, etc.

Currently, we have to manually modify all occurrences of this color in styles or directly on the objects concerned. Here's a quick example to illustrate the process, with two versions.

 

 

test-united-color.afpub

[walt.farrell]

As I suggested, you can do that with a Global Color.

test-united-color-global.afpub

To change the color of everything, just go into the Global Color palette in Swatches, right-click Global Color 1, and choose Edit Fill. Pick the color you want.

[carl123]

I'm assuming the documents you are working on are much more complicated than the sample you showed

So, I would set up a Global colour first

Then use Select > Select Same... and Select > Select Object... to change whatever elements need to be changed to that Global colour

Then in future you just need to change the global colour to affect all the elements that use it

[walt.farrell]

18 minutes ago, carl123 said:

So, I would set up a Global colour first

Yes, you  should plan and set this up from the beginning.

Note that Select > Select Same is a bit tricky, and perhaps also Select > Select Object. For the Frame Text objects the Fill color of the Frame and the Fill color of the Text are specified separately, and Selecting based on Fill color only matches against the Text fill, not the Frame fill.

[Old Bruce]

6 hours ago, Pyanepsion said:

We’re currently working with a document template that uses a specific colour (applied to the background, characters, borders, etc.), selected from a palette defined according to the nature of the document.

As this is a Template I would set up a Document Palette with Global Colours for that Template document. Then just change the colour from Green to Red and all your graphic elements will change. 

[carl123]

16 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

For the Frame Text objects the Fill color of the Frame and the Fill color of the Text are specified separately, and Selecting based on Fill color only matches against the Text fill, not the Frame fill.

Select Same Fill Colour will match against the Text colour and the Frame colour (2 separate colours)

• Changing the colour in the Colour panel will change the Text colour
   
• Changing the colour in the Text Frame panel will change the Frame fill colour

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, carl123 said:

Select Same Fill Colour will match against the Text colour and the Frame colour (2 separate colours)

It didn't, for me, in @Pyanepsion's sample document.

[carl123]

18 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

It didn't, for me, in @Pyanepsion's sample document.

Ah, I see what's it's doing there

In that case he can Select Same Height to just target those text frames with the Fill colour and change them all to his global colour

Or target another attribute unique to those filled text frames

But, it's hard to say exactly what he has to do without an actual production document to hand

[Pyanepsion]

2 hours ago, Old Bruce said:

As this is a Template

It's a translation error from French to English. I meant “a document format”. I'll modify the initial message.