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085 Using Illustrator to create InDesign gradient swatches

085 Using Illustrator to create InDesign gradient swatches - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

085 Using Illustrator to create InDesign gradient swatches

I resented this when I first started working with InDesign so many years ago, and I resent it to this day. When you choose show gradient swatches, this little neglected icon button thing, at the bottom of the Swatches panel, what does it show you? There are no default gradient swatches. Why? There's default color swatches. It automatically defaults to show you all, as though there are actually gradient swatches mixed in here. I mean, there is a fake gradient swatch if you drag out a rectangle. And then you come down here to the fill Flyout Menu. And you choose Apply gradient. But it doesn't even appear here, doesn't even say, white to black or anything like that. Now instead, you have to go to the Gradient panel, and you have to create your own gradient by hand. Or go to the Swatches panel and go to the Swatches panel menu and choose New Gradient Swatch, and build them here one by one. I have a tip for you. Just grab them from Illustrator. That's what everybody does. If you have the…

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