How do I search for objects by color in ID-CS2

[tonk58]

In an inherited (long) document, there a dozens of swatches for colors that are "going away." Is there a way to search for objects that use those colors, similar to Photoshop's Select Similar command? I know you can use color as an attribute in a text search, but that's not what I need. TIA.

 

[jmgalvin]

As far as I know there isn't a way to do what you want. You might try using the Select All Unused from the little trinagle on the swatches pallette to make sure they were all actually used. Unless you trash unused swatches in ID the doc will retain them even if not used. The original person might have made a bunch of swatches for trial but not used them.

Don't know what you mean by "going away". If it means you're going to replace most of those colors with just a few or grays, you can select any swatch and drag it to to trash on swatches pallette. If it's used in the document you'll get a prompt to replace with - where you put in the swatch you want. This could still be time consuming, but I don't know any other way.

Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4

 

[Pixelchik]

Maybe you could just double click the swatch in the swatches palette and then all objects with that color will be highlighted, then update your color. I don't know if it will work across the entire document.

 

[tonk58]

This actually isn't my project. The fella with the document used Select All Unused to get rid of unused colors already. Now he has a document with lot of colored objects (I don't know what they look like), some in wanted colors and some not, but no way to tell which unwanted colors are in use except to look at every object.

My suggestion was to create an easily recognized color swatch and substitute it for one of the unwanted swatches in a swatch delete operation. But he'd still have to look at all the objects to find out which ones changed. Tks anyway, folks.