Comments for Claudia McCue

Comment on InDesign May Not Update Homemade Illustrator Spot Colors by Claudia

Claudia — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 02:14:55 +0000

Andreas,

Good one! That does work. In fact, it seems to update the color of the linked artwork in InDesign. It’s a bit of an annoyance to have the new name if the swatch has been used for other page elements, but it might be the easiest workaround I’ve seen yet.

Thank you!
–Claudia

Comment on InDesign May Not Update Homemade Illustrator Spot Colors by Andreas Keiner

Andreas Keiner — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:35:19 +0000

What about renaming the spot colour when editing the Illustrator-artwork? Then you get a new swatch in InDesign and all you have to do is to replace the old swatch with the new one. At least you won’t have to worry about the excact placement of the artwork.

Comment on InDesign May Not Update Homemade Illustrator Spot Colors by Eugene Tyson

Eugene Tyson — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:22:31 +0000

It is a very odd issue. Thanks for the post. Something else to watch out for

Comment on InDesign May Not Update Homemade Illustrator Spot Colors by Claudia

Claudia — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:05:03 +0000

Eugene,

Your Ink Manager approach does work, but you may have to turn on Overprint Preview to see the correct color.

And there’s a variation on what I described in the post: the appearance of the updated art may change, but the appearance of the swatch color doesn’t change.

Again, as long as it’s a distinct spot color, it will generate a separate plate, but it’s odd that Illustrator and InDesign don’t communicate better. There’s a kink in the pipeline somewhere…

Comment on InDesign May Not Update Homemade Illustrator Spot Colors by Eugene Tyson

Eugene Tyson — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 11:07:39 +0000

What happens if you use the Ink Manager to assign an Alias – so you could create a Red Die Line spot colour – then can you map the Green Dieline to the Red colour that way?

Comment on InDesign May Not Update Homemade Illustrator Spot Colors by This Week in InDesign Articles, Number 81 | InDesignSecrets

This Week in InDesign Articles, Number 81 | InDesignSecrets — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:37:53 +0000

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Comment on Regionalized Interface by This Week in InDesign Articles, Number 63 | InDesignSecrets

This Week in InDesign Articles, Number 63 | InDesignSecrets — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:00:02 +0000

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Comment on Setting Illustrator Defaults by marc

marc — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 06:24:33 +0000

Change the default font of illustrator

You can change the font too. You have to open the character styles in the template you are changing. Then in normal character style (in the options of it) you can change the default font of the template.

Kind regards

Comment on Use InDesign’s Multiple Page Sizes to Create a Book Cover by This Week in InDesign Articles, Number 54 | InDesignSecrets

This Week in InDesign Articles, Number 54 | InDesignSecrets — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 05:04:32 +0000

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Comment on Use InDesign’s Multiple Page Sizes to Create a Book Cover by Vlad Ossipov

Vlad Ossipov — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 06:49:26 +0000

Yes, of course, Claudia! Thank you!