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First I would say Create Palette from Document, but although all colours from the document are now in the palette, clicking on any element will not show the colour in the Swatches panel. Also making a colour global and changing the colour afterwards has no impact on elements in the document.

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Thank you @Joachim_L,

With your help, I succeeded to handle the issue, although it implied a lot of manual work. However, the option "Create Palette from Document” works in an unexpected (and probably buggy) way. It doesn't get the colours from the whole document, but only from the page (or the spread) you are on. In addition to that, it looks like it extracts colours from the images: in this case, you could end up with a huge useless palette filled with shades. Quite weird.

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Also it creates always 68 swatches, regardless of the number of used colors.

And it ignores properties of existing swatches, as their global, spot, overprint property and their color model.

That way it appears to create a palette of a picture only (and only of a specific page of the current document). That makes it quite useless compared to the option "Create Palette From Image..." which allows you at least to set the number of resulting swatches from 3 – 256, and offers the option to add the resutling swatches to an existing palette.

However, none of the two ways of "Create palette..." are a good option to get information about used colors and/or color swatches, neither on a page nor in a complete document. As you also can't get info about the not-used swatches in a current document, for instance to delete them.

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