![]() ![]() ![]() I think that the PDF specification has a similar issue on the amount of spots that are displayed in the list of plates in the PDF file in Acrobat Pro output preview (although the file can contain more). At a later point I think it was updated to around 37 spots. Is the DFE pickup up the Lab values from the spots and then converting them on the fly to the final device space using a spot colour lookup table of some sort?Īt one point in time, the Adobe PDF Print Engine (APPE) licensed from Adobe for use in various RIP/DFE only supported a maximum of 27 spot colours. I am still reeling from the amazing help I had on my last request, and once again thanks in advance and any help this great community can offer. Looking at the preset scripts on this within illustrator they seem to be almost there - again my limited scripting talent has brought me here.Īny help / guidance would be massively appreciated, even if its just a script or action that does a similar thing, I can have a go at editing it myself. I thought this would be a relatively straightforward action based function within illustrator but had a bit of a play this am and couldnt nail it. Make new spot in document 1 with properties Īnother issue that I now have is I want to automatically fill a number of individual rectangles on an illustrator document with all the swatches from the library - in grid formation.ĭoes anyone know if there is a script / action within illustrator that would do such a thing? I can do this manually but am trying to perfect a process with the least manual interaction (I have the tendancy to make human errors lol). I couldn't find anything referring to LAB so I took a lucky guess and it worked. Yes - lots of scripts for RGB and CMYK swatches out there. There is only a little error checking inside the script at this point so you might get an error or two the first time.72.14 will become just 72 in Illustrator. AI does not hold LAB values with a decimal place.Once done you save your Swatches as an ASE Library and share them between users and applications. ![]() The script will then create the LAB swatches in the AI doc and tell you when its DONE.Just enter the number of rows you have created in the spreadsheet (my Excel scripting is not good enough to detect where you have stopped filling in rows) The script will ask you how many rows you want it to process.It will ask you to select the Excel Spreadsheet with all the LAB values and Swatch Names you have decided upon (no duplicate names please).Create a new blank AI document and then delete all the default swatches (to avoid duplicate names).Open the Script with Script Editor and press the RUN icon. I had to set an upper limit so it will create 200 swatches, let me know if you need more than that. Here is a ZIP file with the Spreadsheet Template for the values and the Apple Script to make it work. ASE file but it's WAY too complex for me. ![]()
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