Pantone Colorbook not working

[Migs30082384nlgp]

I'm trying to import a Pantone Solid Coated color book to my Illustrator, but it does not appear in the swatches panel.

Anybody knows any solution for this?

[Ton Frederiks]

Did you put them in the Color Books folder inside the Swatches folder?

[Migs30082384nlgp]

Yes mate, I've tried that aswell does not pop up on Illustrator

[Ton Frederiks]

This worked for me.

Go the Illustrator 2025 Application folder > Presets > (your language folder) > Swatches > Color Books > and put a copy of PANTONE+ Solid Coated.acb and PANTONE+ Solid Uncoated.acb in there.

[Migs30082384nlgp]

My pantone color book file has an .ase extension/file type. Can this be the issue aswell?

[Ton Frederiks]

Yes, that is not a colorbook, but a swatches exchange file. It needs to be an .acb file

[Ton Frederiks]

Maybe if you are lucky you can still get them, although with the release of the new 2025 version they should be gone by now.

Install an older version of Illustrator: 2023 (27.0), this is the last version that has the old Pantone Color books.

In the Creative Cloud app select Apps > All Apps > Illustrator > click the 3 dots …  next to the Open button >  click Other Versions and select 27.0

Go the Illustrator 2023 Application folder > Presets > (your language folder) > Swatches > Color Books > and make a copy of PANTONE+ Solid Coated.acb and PANTONE+ Solid Uncoated.acb

Keep them in a safe place and copy them to the same location in the Illustrator 2024 application folder.

If you have a Photoshop license, you can install Photoshop 22.2.

Then, open Photoshop 2021 Application folder > Presets > Color Books and you will find the PANTONE color books, so copy it to Illustrator's Color Books folder.