Finding a Spot color Location

[Matthew_Hunter@adobeforums.com]

Is there an easy way to find and change objects in a document making use of a specific spot color

I inherited a document that has two spot colors with the exact same ssettings. I can not delete either of them. I have gone through this thing a hundred times and I cna not find anything tagged wiht the second spot color yet I can not delete it.

Let me know what to do please.

Thanks

Matt

[Dave_Saunders@adobeforums.com]

Are we talking CS? If so, try exporting to InDesign Interchange format and then open the .inx file.

Dave

[M_Blackburn@adobeforums.com]

Dave,

I'm curious what that achieves. I don't even know what an INX file is and the manual says see InDesign Interchange Format — for which there is no entry. When I opened a test INX file it appears no different than the original. I have had the problem described by Matthew, but I don't have a file handy to experiment with. Can you be a little more descriptive?

P.S. Up to this point I have been using your procedure of making a book and sychronizing the offending swatch with a temporary one of the same name but defined as cmyk. That works well, although once I synchronized a colour that I shouldn't have and corrupted my file.

[Bob_Levine]

The INX format was the format originally intended for use in backsaving
to ID 2.0. While that didn't work out so well, it turns out that
exporting an ID CS file to INX and then opening that INX file results in
a very clean file with no corruption.

The only issue seems to be with some guides not coming through but
that's pretty minor compared to a file that has corruption problems.

Bob

[M_Blackburn@adobeforums.com]

Thanks, Bob. I immediately went to the corrupted file I mentionned and tried to delete the corrupted element. I had nailed it down to one last spot colour eps, but every time I tried to delete it or effect it in any way, ID blew up. The INX file worked like a charm. I was able to nix the eps, delete the unwanted swatch, and re-save it back to CS. This was not something that crippled my file, but it is very nice to get back to something clean. Thanks again, to you, and to Dave.