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Color Handling 169
1. In the COLOR GALLERY, select the color or colors you want to delete.
2. Click DELETE in the COLOR GALLERY.
or:
Right click on the color on the Color Line and choose
DELETE.
Importing named colors
When a design is imported into the current document (e.g. import from the DESIGNS
GALLERY
, import a XAR file or paste objects in from another design) if there are any
named colors in the imported design which have the same names but different color
values as colors in the current design, an alert appears as follows:
If you want the imported objects to inherit the colors of your current design, choose
the “
MATCH” option. This makes all objects using a given named color use the existing
instance of that color as it appears in the current document.
Alternatively if you want the imported objects to keep their own independent colors,
select the “
DON’T MATCH” option. This adds new named colors into your design, with
a number appended to the color names to distinguish them from the colors already in
the current design. This allows the imported objects to keep their original colors.
Note that if you import objects from lots of different designs and choose “
DON'T
MATCH
” each time, you will end up with a large number of separate Named Colors on
your color line.
The same prompt is shown if there are Text Style definition differences between the
document and the imported design. So seeing this prompt does not necessarily mean
that there are different named color definitions – it could just be due to Text Style
differences. See the Text Styles section of the Text Handling chapter for details.
The match prompt above includes a “
DON’T ASK ME AGAIN” checkbox. If you check
this, the option you choose will be assumed for all future imports, without asking you
again. However this only applies during the current session, so after a program restart
you will be asked again on the next import if there is a color clash.
Using the
MATCH option means that you can choose a template, change its theme
colors and then import more templates of the same theme and the imported designs
will immediately pick up your modified theme colors.