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It only takes a minute to sign up. Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. I'd like to be able to get a count on the current amount of colors being used in an Illustrator file. Additionally I'd like to be able to export the colors info names, values, etc. Does anyone know how to do either of these without counting and exporting each color manually such as this question suggests?
How can I separate colors by layer in Illustrator? I've been digging around for an answer and am mostly finding articles on reducing the amount of colors instead of info on providing a count. I finally found out where to view the total colors used in Illustrator and wanted to share it in case someone else can use it. A window like the example below opens up and the current color count is shown below the upper left corner.
You can make a color group that collects the color from selected artwork. As per this post. Then click the square. Now you should have selected every shape in your design that has that specific color. To show the colors you used, create more rectangles and color them with all the colors from the remaining color group.
Click on each swatch to check. Spot colors in a Swatch palette usually have a little tiny dot on the lower right corner. Those will need to be converted to CMYK. If the blends use transparencies, that could cause problems with some printers, it all depends. Check with the printer. That depends on what you mean by "go. Click on each of the swatches and in the Color palette you'll either see the color with a little CMYK square under it on the right or you'll see the percentage breakdown of CMYK.
Each of the inks -- Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black -- is on a different plate and requires a separate pass through the press -- generally speaking. As long as colors can be broken down into CMYK inks, it can be printed on one of those passes. Different colors are created by the number of dots each plate puts down in an area.
If you have spot colors in addition to the CMYK, that would require a separate plate and a separate pass through the press and costs more. It usually is in Illustrator. I'm waiting for confirmation from my printers as I don't fully understand the difference between two and four color printing.
I would say my document only has two colors black and orange but if that Orange has to be made up from a CMYK combination then it may be a blend of four colors. We shall see! Thanks for all of your help. You've got problems if deleting unused swatches deleted "all" the color swatches in the swatch pallette. If the graphic is supposed to only use two colors black and orange it may be meant as a 2-color job, which is cheaper than 4-color only needs two plates, two passes and you need to use a PMS spot color for the orange.
The PMS color is usually specified by the client. You really need to get the information from the printer and ask him to explain what he needs from you. The paper is subjected to each ink colour separately and is much more high-speed.
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