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We receive many pdf files where the Cut and Crease lines are in the artwork, however for our digital printers we need to separate the Die-Cut from the artwork.
In most cases I open the file in Illustrator and create a separate file with only the Die-cut, which goes on top of the artwork in Indesign.
Then I delete the Die-cuts in the original pdf.
Is it possible to create an action list where the Cut and Crease lines, so two spot colors, are moved to a new, blank page?
I have tried several actions, but these only move one of the spot colors. Suggestions?

If you can get it to work on one spot color, can you just make another action that works for the other spot color? If so, then you could combine the 2 actions into. a QuickRun.

Split Action

Select spot color (choose to make a list of spot color names)
Copy/cut
Select all
Add pages
Select pages (last one)
Paste

@CruzinCooler: using "Split Action List" is not wrong, but not strictly necessary because the new page is added at the end and this means the Action List is still moving forward through the pages.

Hi all,

May I suggest that you have a look at the "Add pages with extracted content" Action?

While the title might not be that explicit, the point here was actually to separate print content from technical content:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK38tBrEYVI&t=9s

Before (blue mimicks gold here):


After:


So all you need is select your technical colors and add Action "Add pages with extracted content"

freddyp wrote: ↑Thu Sep 18, 2025 12:06 pm Select spot color (choose to make a list of spot color names)
Copy/cut
Select all
Add pages
Select pages (last one)
Paste

@CruzinCooler: using "Split Action List" is not wrong, but not strictly necessary because the new page is added at the end and this means the Action List is still moving forward through the pages.

I stand corrected. Good point. Thank you freddyp

Thank for the info, the action works almost, but it creates a separate page for every die-cut color.
So, how do I get the two die-cut colors on the same page?

Hi,

I believe that you didn't use the Action I was recommending but another one which is "Add separation pages to document". This one indeed would create as many pages as separations are found.

But the Action I was suggesting was "Add pages with extracted content do document". There you can select "whatever" you want and put it into a new page. Because this is not destructive, you need to remove the initial content if needed.

For example, consider the following document:

Yellow shape is CMYK
Others are spot that we want to isolate on a new page.

Now let's set the Action:

And run.

Now you get two pages. The non spot content (yellow shape stays on page 1).
Spot content is moved on page 2. I don't get 3 pages but two.



If you get a different result, please consider it a bug and report to us please.

I think it is partly to do with the language expressions, I use the Dutch version...

It works great, real timesaver!
Thanks for the help!

Glad that it helped!