Color, Strokes, and Fills > Using the Swatches panel > Removing colors

 

Removing colors

Removing colors from the color list retains the colors in any corresponding objects as unnamed colors. When removing multiple colors, a dialog box prompts you either to remove all colors or only the unused colors.

Removing spot, Hexachrome, and tint colors does the following:

Spot colors are converted to process colors. Objects containing these spot-to-process converted colors may not print separations as intended.

Hexachrome colors are converted to RGB values. The Hexachrome icon appears to the side of the name in the Swatches panel.

Removing the base color of a tint also removes any tints of that color.

Note: You can't remove or replace imported spot or process colors from a locked or uneditable EPS. To determine whether an imported EPS is locked, press Control+K (Windows) or Command+K (Macintosh) to switch to Keyline mode. A locked EPS displays an X-box.

To remove colors:

1

Choose Edit > Select > None.

2

Click a color name in the Swatches panel. Shift-click to select additional colors that are adjacent. Control-click (Windows) or Command-click (Macintosh) to select additional colors that are not adjacent.

3

Do one of the following:

Choose Xtras > Delete > Unused Named Colors to remove unused named colors.

Click the triangle in the upper right corner of the Swatches panel to display the Options pop-up menu, and choose Remove. At the prompt, click Remove to remove all selected colors or Cancel to cancel the operation.