Guillem S. Posted September 6, 2019 Share Posted September 6, 2019 Is there a way of getting a list of all the colours used in a document? I'm working on a quite messy publication, with plenty of different colours, and I'd like to simplify the palette without checking all the elements one by one… Please, tell me there's a simple way to do this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joachim_L Posted September 6, 2019 Share Posted September 6, 2019 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. Guillem S. and ziplock9000 1 1 Quote ------ Windows 10 | i5-8500 CPU | Intel UHD 630 Graphics | 32 GB RAM | Latest Retail and Beta versions of complete Affinity range installed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guillem S. Posted September 6, 2019 Author Share Posted September 6, 2019 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted September 8, 2019 Share Posted September 8, 2019 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. woefi 1 Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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