Googled for hours now, but didn’t find any solution. Can anybody tell me how to assign a color to an object without using swatches? Let’s say, you want each word to have its own color. With a large text, this won’t make much sense as long as you have to use thousands of swatches.
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS3"
tell word 1 of story 1 of document 1
set color value of fill color to {0,100,0,0}
end tell
end tell
It tells me, that i can’t chance “the” color. Any suggestions?
Hello. You can change (editable) fill colors like this but it will result in a document-wide change to the existing swatch, which isn’t desirable. I believe the error you are receiving is likely due to the fact that you are working on an uneditable color, such as “black” or one of the other untouchables.
I think your intended method of colorizing while bypassing swatches may be outside the InDesign model, as "color value" is a swatch's property; what you can do instead is spawn a new swatch while concurrently setting the properties of your item.
set the selection’s fill color to (make new color with properties¬
{color value:{100,100,0,0}})
Hi Marc!
Thank you for that suggestion! Unfortunately it creates a lot of swatches, when you run that script over a few hundred words. That’s what i wanted to avoid.
I wanted to find the Applescript-way of what you can do by hand & mouse: select a word, goto the color palette, choose CMYK and adjust the sliders. After that there is no new swatch, but the letters have their own color.
Well, today I sadly stumbled across a hint at the Adobe site saying that it is not possible without swatches.