Recent content by William Smith

Hi to all, Can anyone share with me a preferred method or application available to allow me to organise a large collection of swatches I have created. I currently have over 1500 swatches and would very much like to order these in a way to be presentable to a customer. I currently have been...

Ah thanks Tim, yes exactly, I did try with my excel data, using conversion tables lab to rgb and rgb to hsl, and also scripted a cell fill in excel to see the results before running scripts to convert to. Ase (if you follow). I haven't tried lch conversion though.. Will give it a go. This may at...

HI to all as per this posts title, I am trying to create a colour wheel / organise multiple swatches from an. Ase file. Looking into the various functions in illustrator, I can't seem to sort my swatches in any order, indesign does offer more sorting options but still isn't helping.. I still...

@ Stephen / Tim-ellis, have not fully considered format / design / size of the squares, as there are 2 intended purposes - one is for measuring and validating, the other is for distributing to clients. In either instance, I never thought I'd get as far as I have with the help you have given me...

HI Tim-ellis, I can go up to sra1 and I think my squares need to be 50x50mm minimum to get a reading off the i1. I did have some success in adjusting the square size within the script but the text remained a static size and overset the text box. Am still a complete novice in scripting, but am...

Thanks Stephen, by all accounts the LAB colours render correctly when output on both proof and press, I have measured my colours in with an I1 and all my delta E's are very close.

Tim-Ellis, I have had a look at this, Render Swatch Legend works fantastic, the resulting illustrator puts in the colour blocks accurately and on output to pdf shows me it keeps the colours as LAB. A small annoyance is that the text it adds over each block has the cmyk values and not the LAB...

HI Stephen Good point, all the delta es on my samples were good before when I did the process manually - over 100 samples on a pdf. I have yet to repeat the entire test using Tim-ellis' script, have just checked the script itself not the results from a pdf. Will bear the points you have made in...

Great stuff Tim, will check this out tomorrow. Looks like a good site too. Thanks once again for your help. Will keep you posted how I get on

HI Stephen. Yes output proof and press sheet. Then compare to lab of swatch / proof to press delta es. Output to pdf to then use in dfe.

HI all Another issue that I now have is I want to automatically fill a number of individual rectangles on an illustrator document with all the swatches from the library - in grid formation. Does anyone know if there is a script / action within illustrator that would do such a thing? I can do...

Again, this helps me massively, and i have everything I need. TIm, you've saved me so much time with your help, I can't thank you enough, brilliant work, Will

Tim-Ellis, this works brilliantly, thanks ever so much for this, saves me so much time. I do have a higher number of swatches - potentially could be 1500. Is this an easy fix? You are a legend for helping me with this, thanks again

Tim - great stuff, thanks ever so much!

Tim-Ellis, I'm on a mac.. Do you have any further info? Anything would be really helpful thanks.. Stephen, yes that's what I've seen too, only rgb and cmyk.. I have tried to change scripts to lab but I think I need more understanding on scripting before I start changing such functions.. I...