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"Color groups cannot contain pattern or gradient swatches"

"Color groups cannot contain pattern or gradient swatches." Why is this? Is there any way around it? I'm working with lots of patterns with subtle variations and need a way to categorize them and…

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maguskrool (to Inigo Montoya) 3 months ago (Show more Show less)

Did you happen to find any sort of explanation for this? I have the same problem and can't find a good way to work around this. Thank you.

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Change graph data and objects through script

maguskrool 3 months ago (Show more)

Hi. I'm working on a document where I had to create several pie charts on Illustrator. I then colored each pie's slices with swatches from a custom swatch group. Now I need to change the order of the…

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maguskrool (to maguskrool) 3 months ago (Show more Show less)

Bummer. But thank you. The solution I came up with to at least get some of the work done through a script was to: - change the graph data manually (I can sort it in Excel or similar) and create a…

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Fill table cells with color % depending on cell content

maguskrool 6 months ago (Show more)

Hi. I'm working on a document with a lot of tables filled with percentages. The tables are originally on a Word document and the table cells are tinted according to their content: a value of 20%…

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maguskrool (to maguskrool) 4 months ago (Show more Show less)

Thank you for your suggestions, I'll trying them out soon.

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GREP select every character up to first space

maguskrool 6 months ago (Show more)

Hi. I'm trying to format a reference list that contains several entries with urls (plain text, no interactivity) and I need those urls to be italic. I created a character style that I want to apply…

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