Select only Stroke with spot color

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13Apostel
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Select only Stroke with spot color

Post by 13Apostel »

Hello, I'm trying to create a check to check if contours are included as spot colors.
Unfortunately, however, I fail to select only contours with spot colors.

I'm currently trying with
1) select all spot colors
2) Select closed paths
3) and

Unfortunately, I also select areas with a stroke that is not defined as a spot color but that fill has a spot color.

Is there a solution for my problem?
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Re: Select only Stroke with spot color

Post by Malcolm Mackenzie »

You're nearly there.

You would need to add a log selection
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It shouldn't pick up non spot contour.
If you can post your action and test file it makes it easily to understand what isn't working for you.
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Re: Select only Stroke with spot color

Post by 13Apostel »

That's exaktly me aktionlist, but i select also fills (spotcolor) with stroke (without spotcolor).
Thats my problem ;) I need to select only stroke with spotcolor.

Unfortunately, I can't upload the test files because it keeps telling me that the archive is too big, even though it's only 300 kb. :(

Thx
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Re: Select only Stroke with spot color

Post by freddyp »

There is no action to select objects with a stroke. There is the action "Select color" where you can make a choice between "Fill", "Stroke" (or both). The downside is that you have to choose a specific "User swatch", you cannot select all spot colors. I assume you want to check for the presence of dielines in which case the number of possible names will be limited. If my assumption is correct you could use multiple "Select color" actions combined with multiple OR operators (always 1 less than the number of select actions they combine):
Select color A
Select color B
Select color C
OR
OR
Log selection
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Re: Select only Stroke with spot color

Post by 13Apostel »

Thank you, unfortunately I assumed this.

I actually want to check for tool contours, but I have the problem that my customers keep coming up with new names for them, which is basically not a problem as long as it is a stroke and spot color, since this could be used in the rip for further processing.

It's a pity, but then it has to work with fixed names ;)
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