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I think it works that way. In other words it can't read your mind as to what your intent is and if you have a different view point you could say hey why did it not replace the color after all I now confirmed that I wanted it to be a spot color and I made a swatch of it and said this is used color if it is a used color then it must be somewhere in the document so what do you expect?

I agree with Scot if you say it is a used color and it matches then it must be being used. Sees logical to me as well. And actually a good feature.

This is a personalized view point perhaps step back from it and look 

at the other possibilities and you might think of a feature request as 

opposed to calling it a bug.

A bug is something that fails to function not some I don't like there 

is a big difference.

With all respect, I agree with Herb. That the object is changed to the exact same color build as another swatch already in the swatches panel is one thing. It's one thing that makes perfect sense as Scott and Wade point out.

But this is not all that's happening in Herb's example. Illustrator is converting a process color to a spot color... without being asked to. So in this case it isn't simply "adding used colors" because the spot color was not, in fact, being used!

It seems risky to claim that, because an already named but unused spot color happens to have the same color build as a used but unnamed process color, Illustrator should feel free to fill objects containing the latter with the former after asking it to Add Used Colors!

The "Add Used Colors" command is supposed to:

1) look for colors actually stroking or filling existing artwork (and stroking or filling existing symbols, brushes and graphic styles) for which there are no swatches in the swatches panel.

2) If and when such unnamed colors are found, add those colors to the swatches panel.

But in Herb's example, the spot swatch he created was nowhere in the artwork or in any symbol, brush or style. In fact it ONLY existed in the swatches panel itself. And it SURELY was not filling the object that Illustrator fills with the spot color once he chose Add Used Colors. It would truly make more sense for the unnamed process build filling the object to be added to the swatches panel. This is not a personalized view. I too would call it a bug.

Herb and Doug we can argue the point but what it comes down to is that we see it differently so we disagree.

I do understand your point of view but I know from experience that it ill not be the only view point and so there will be a disagreement.

It depends on the way the person works.

I don't think this is a really large issue or there would have been more opinions expressed here, I can se there being a users choice in this matter
but not a change. And that would be a feature request.

I find it hard to believe also that so many things that do not work the way he user wants it is called a bug. A bug is something that does not function the way it was designed not something that does not function the way I think it should or would like it to function.

I was hoping Herb would react in a way that would express a way he thinks he would could work with this if it could not be changed a preference setting
or a toggle or a new item etc.?

Herb, I just tested this in CS4.

It's a bug.

I periodically need both a spot (enamel) and an equivalent process color in my work. This totally unexpected conversion of process to spot could lead to costly errors.

Herb, I have just submitted a bug report here:

https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform

If you'd like to reproduce the problem on your own machine and use the report I've submitted, feel free to copy or edit it as you wish for submission.

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Problem:

Illustrators 'Add Selected Colors' command converts process color objects to spot color objects, if an equivalent CMYK spot color already exists in the swatches panel.

Steps to reproduce bug:

1. CMYK document color mode.

2. No color swatches in swatches panel.

3. Draw an object. Using the color mixer, fill it with C=0 M=100 Y=100 K=O.

4. Do not add this swatch to the swatches panel.

5. Make a new *spot color swatch* named 'Red Enamel' based on the identical CMYK mix as previously used, C=0 M=100 Y=100 K=O.

6. Draw a new object and fill it with the swatch 'Red Enamel'.

7. Select all objects.

8. In the swatches panel, Add Selected Colors.

Results:

1. No new swatches are added.

2. All process red objects now have the spot 'Red Enamel' fill applied.

3. When printed to separations, objects that were supposed to print on process plates will print on a spot plate.

Expected Result:

A new process swatch, C=0 M=100 Y=100 K=O, should be added to the swatches panel.

Please note that this bug is not limited to the specific CMYK mix used here as an example. It occurs whenever a spot and process color have identical CMYK numbers.

I periodically need both a spot (enamel) and an equivalent process color in my work. If this totally unexpected error is not caught and manually corrected, it will result in costly errors.

You go, girl!

If you guys think it is a bug you have done the right thing.

i am however curious are you all former Freehand users? My guess is yes!

You might find this logical but as we see Illustrator users do not

necessarily see your logic.

For instance it seems there are old time Illustrator users who do not

like the new clipping mask behavior.

Some of you might not understand that and though I like it they just

do not understand why anyone would want this new behavior

as much as it might be like FreeHand.

This might be another one of those issues. And since there is a way to

accomplish this already a feature request might be in order.

That is what I suggest.

I posted this last week so I do not know why it is showing u today.