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Is there a 'default' startup page I can tweak in Illustrator. I want my own swatches to show up by defualt. How do I do that?
- akrok0
save then load swatches. maybe.
- e-pill0
Create a new swatch Library with only the colors you want then in the swatch palette drop down menu save the swatch and select the swatches folder in the AI folder under Presets now your new swatch will be listed as a choice for future projects as long as you leave it in swatches folder. Or if you forgot choose Other... and navigate to an existing ai document with the right colors and delete the colors you don't want in that swatch and save the remaining to the swatches folder and it will be available.
- monospaced0
It's actually really easy. Open Illustrator with NO DOCUMENT open and set the swatches however you like. Then quit. Reopen and you'll see that you've set the defaults to your liking. This also applies to type settings, etc.
- MrT0
I did this (I think) recently, and this explains it better than I ever will.
- monospaced0
Ok, since my suggestion was a total fail, do what e-pill said. Then add your swatch library to the swatch palette and, in the drop down menu, select "Persistent" so that it's always there. Cheers!
- The Persistent is key if you want your custom library as a palette every time you load (your workspace)monospaced
- e-pill0
you can navigate to your default CMYK or default RGB illy default files in the Adobe Illustrator folder in your applications folder.. open each file.. and add the swatches you want and save and close and quit and re-open illy and the new swatches you added to either CMYK or RGB will always be there as that file is the default.
done et done.
- e-pill0
Applications/ Presets/ en_US/ Swatches/ Default Swatches/
-Basic CMYK
-Basic RGB
open each of those files. add the swatches you want to be there every time, save file, not save file as.. just "⌘S"
done et done
- Horp0
For a minute here I thought my old friend Alan Swatches had died.