They are:. Think of the other colors you see in this initial palette as a beginning sample of colors you can start playing with.
They are all predefined as CMYK. Double-click any of them to tweak or completely redefine the color. You can define new colors by clicking the upper right corner of the palette and choosing from the drop down menu. From here, you can access the Pantone spot color libraries as well.
The icons next to your colors will go a long way in visually helping to keep control of the colors defined in your final files. The column to the left of this will present a circle if the color is a spot color. Will you be printing with spot color inks? Offset in 4-color process? Being aware of this as you work and place photos, logos, or other graphic elements into your InDesign file will allow you to see if what you are creating will separate correctly, if needed, at the print stage.
While you can define and control the colors of any objects or type created within InDesign, once you place elements created in other applications into your document — such as eps or ai files from Illustrator or jpg and tif files from PhotoShop or even the dreaded gif files stolen from a website! If your intent is digital or CMYK process printing, often your printer can redefine spot colors from your pdf at the prepress stage. The swatches will then be listed in a file called 'Graphic.
Once you've edited it, you'll need to recompress it. There's a couple of InDesign scripts here for the process. I've never tried to delete swatches in this way, though, so I don't know whether it would work.
You could also try copying the pages into another document and seeing if the colour goes with them; or adding a graphic to the file which does contain that swatch or at least a swatch by that name , deleting the graphic again, and then seeing if you can now edit the swatch. Are you sure these swatches aren't coming from a placed AI or eps file?
That's where undeletable swatches came from last time I had this problem. You can also filter the list by File Type. I tried the scripts mentioned above to edit the IDML to remove the offending swatches but it didn't work. I really want this to work as making new swatches exactly named and importing them is a pain!
Bumping and old post, but I have the same problem, and have tried pretty much every suggestion on this thread.
Anyone find another fix? If all else fails, why not open a new document, make sure all the colors are deleted and import stuff from the old just to see at what item the problem occurs, chances are that item image or style is the culprit and you should investigate that. Yes — that will be my last resort. Thanks for the link : I tried that yesterday but could get any program on the mac to open the IDML file.
Should it be able to open straight up in text edit? But fun to poke about. Advanced Search. Forgot Password? Join today. Not a member? How-tos, tips and tricks and more. Go to the Swatches menu and click Select All Unused, then delete. Now you are all set to finish your poster or brochure printing projcet. When your computer crashes, it can be very frustrating, but be encouraged. The solution is fairly simple. If you try to delete a color used in a transparency effect and InDesign CS3 crashes, you need to update your version of the software.
For software updates, visit www. This should prevent CS3 from crashing the next time you delete a color. Do not let trouble with deleting color swatches delay your project. Try every possible route available for disposing of colors in InDesign until you find one that works, and remember that if the same trouble arises the next time to you delete swatches, you will know exactly which method to use.
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