Why Is InDesign No Longer Prompting for PANTONE Colors in Documents?

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
October 21, 2024
1 reply
4310 views

I noticed lately, when opening an InDesign document containing PANTONE colors in the Swatches palette such as this one:

that InDesign no longer prompts me for the presence of PANTONE colors?
As of October 21 2024
(I have v20 installed and ready to fire up but I'm staying in v19 for my class)

Performance

rob day

Community Expert

Hi @Roger Breton , InDesign no longer installs Pantone .acb files when you upgrade, but you can still do it manually. If the .acb files exist in Applications⁩ ▸ ⁨Adobe InDesign 202X⁩ ▸ ⁨Presets⁩ ▸ ⁨Swatch Libraries⁩, I would not expect any kind of alert when opening a document referencing Pantone .acb colors. You can download .acb files from the link below or subscribe to Pantone Connect.

https://github.com/Autocrit/Pantone-color-libraries

Roger BretonAuthor

Legend

Thanks Rob.

I'd rather point my students to GitHub than to supply them myself the old *.acb format files.

No V4 libraries in sight?

rob day

Community Expert

The github .acb files have considerably more colors than the .acb files that shipped with CS6. There are probably new colors not included in the .acbs, but if that is important then the only option will be Pantone Connect. Are your students really paying to have Spot Color separations printed on an offset press?

Sign up

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.

Sign in to Adobe Community

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.

Scanning file for viruses.

This file cannot be downloaded