From the course: Illustrator: Coloring Artwork (2011)

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Removing unused swatches from documents

Removing unused swatches from documents - Illustrator Tutorial

From the course: Illustrator: Coloring Artwork (2011)

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Removing unused swatches from documents

As you work on a document to make revisions and changes, you may find that you have accumulated a lot of different swatches inside of that document. Now at some point you may want to clean house and get rid of the swatches that are no longer necessary for that document. Not only does it help reduce the confusion in trying to find the colors that you want, it can also help reduce the file size of the document and prevent accidents maybe later on down the road. There are actually two ways to accomplish this and let me show them to you. I am going to start up by just creating a brand-new document. I am going to use the Print Profile here and when I click OK, you'll see that this document already now has some swatches inside of it. Now, I did not create these swatches, these are swatches that actually are inside of the Print New Document Profile document. We'll actually talk about how to manage that thing specifically, meaning, how we can actually make sure that every new document I…

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