Hi all. I have a 13 of pages of paragraph text. The text fill is black (RGB 0,0,0) throughout. No pen outline. No graphics. However, the Document Palette shows four wells - none, RGB 0,0,0, CMYK100 and RGB 0,0,0 (again). I usually only have the 'none' well showing. I have no idea what the others are referring to. How do I find out?
Shelly, I too, ignore the document palette. I have not found a true use for it.
FWIW, I have not paid attention to its behavior in X7 release of the Suite. So I am not aware of the misbehavior of it.
If you add a color from text, soemtimes you will find an unwanted color. For example, if you create a black text and change color to red, than add it to the Document Palette, we expect to add only "red" since the black is not longer used. But sometimes, the text add the black color anyway. And yes, you can have more than one "RGB black" although it seems to be the same.
Hugh Johnson said:Shelly, I too, ignore the document palette. I have not found a true use for it.
The use is relative to the job. For example, when I work with Mesh Fill, I need to use some colors on more than one instance. The color palette allows me to have the colors I need, what it was very difficult on older versions
Ariel said:The color palette allows me to have the colors I need
Ariel, I take your point, but what use is it if it adds colours you don't want and then can't get rid of? Besides, if I want a colour pallette, I can create a custom one. Yes, it's more time-consuming but it can then be used across other documents.
I found a solution - turn the Document Palette off!
shelley said:but what use is it if it adds colours you don't want and then can't get rid of?
I never understood the concept of document palettes at all I turn off the auto update feature and permanently close it.
shelley said:Ariel, I take your point, but what use is it if it adds colours you don't want and then can't get rid of? Besides, if I want a colour pallette, I can create a custom one. Yes, it's more time-consuming but it can then be used across other documents.
Not all people need the same features, since not all people do the same jobs. And also, not all jobs needs the same tools or features. So, it's good to have the option for choose the tools we need.
The Document Palette don't add color randomly. That only happens with some specific points, such as the text, since the text maintain the original although is no longer used and also can add the default Text&Graphics Style. For graphics that doesn't happens, but of course the Document Palette is not perfect. If you drag an object with outline and fill to the Document Palette it will add both colors, and maybe you want to add only the fill color, not the outline. Anyway, is not a big problem (you can delete the color is you want), but it's a big advantadge. spacially when you need to use the same color on different instances, on different pages, on fills and outlines. or if you want to add just a 10% or 20% of this color. Of course, if you enable "auto-update" for the Document Palette sometimes you will have too much colors and this is not useful. On older versions, several users asked for this feature although it was possible to create a custom palette