Illustrator 29.0.1- Seeking Pantone Library- mission impossible

Question

Looking for Pantone library in the new version of Illustrator and it's not there. Google it and AI says I have to> Window> Extension>Libraries>No go. Then Open Swatch Library> Color Books> no Pantone.
Further- need to install Pantone Connect extension. Go to Illustrator help, got a link (thank you) and weed through a tutorial (I don't have time to browse). Scroll down to Plugin acquired, install using Creative Cloud and pop-up asking to allow website to open Creative Cloud Desktop App>OK> hit Install again, and it goes back to: allow website to open Creative Cloud Desktop App- over and over. Forget this- no time, I'm going to safari/google the pantone colors. Why does Adobe make things so complicated? I still need to access pantone colors for Illustrator. What am I doing wrong?

Bobby Henderson · Answer

Pantone's spot color books haven't been included in the past few versions of Adobe's print-related applications, such as Illustrator. This is largely due to Pantone launching its own Pantone Connect subscription service. They have plugins for Adobe applications. Pantone hasn't been doing this to any of Adobe's rivals.

For the time being, an older version of Photoshop (version 22.2) is the only application available in Creative Cloud that still has any Pantone color books. You can install that version and then copy the color book files to use in Illustrator.

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