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Pantone solid coated missing

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November 17, 2022
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Pantone solid coated missing in illustrator 2023.

Correct answer Kevin Stohlmeyer

@RillyGud You should check for the Pantone V4 series of acb files that were released in 2019. That is the last time Pantone updated their colors. You can find them available for download from various design sites.

@Anubhav M - you marked an answer as correct with outdated information. The current Pantone information is displayed on this page: https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/kb/pantone-plus.html

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Brenda27786182b42q

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Can someone help - my system just updated Illustrator to 28 and I can't find the 26 version to download with the Pantone Charts - can someone email them to me or tell me where to get them ASAP?

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Mike1958Blackett

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What if I no longer have older versions of A.I.?

ja35102056

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Hi, I have the exact same question.

I bought TPG fans+specifier from Pantone and now can't use it with the most efficient (for me) tool in Illustrator (Colour Libraries) to start matching the colours to "real life" since .acb isn't available. With the previous TCX + TPX it worked like a charm. I'm frustrated and disappointed

Can you please fix this!

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gracielle nonakm79192628

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Adobe have to solve this! Please!

Kevin Stohlmeyer

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@gracielle nonakm79192628 This is not Adobe's doing - the issue lies with Pantone. To their credit, Adobe has offered some workarounds for users to get by for now:

https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/kb/pantone-plus.html

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gracielle nonakm79192628

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Ah, All right, sorry. So I rope Pantone y Adobe solved this then 🐵
Thanks Kevin, for mí is more easyer open a older versión of Illustrator.

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Ignacio Ezequiel5CD9

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Hola, podés agregar las paletas de pantone, copiarlas desde tu version anterior de Illustrator.. ver imagen. Adjunto el archivo Pantone Solid coated

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Raja5D1E

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I am facing the same - Plaese support

Monika Gause

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I am facing the same - Plaese support

By @Raja5D1E

You can get them from an earlier version. There are instructions in this long thread.

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RillyGud

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OMG this is the worst and the total icing on my horrible day. Can someone please post a link to download the older pantone swatch book. Yes this is a nightmare. And new swatch books are not only expensive but us designers know these colors after working with them for so many years.

Dave Creamer of IDEAS

Community Expert

The easiest way to get the libraries is to follow @Monika Gause's advice in this thread, posted 11/24/22.

David Creamer: Community Expert (ACI and ACE 1995-2023)

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RillyGud

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I was being lazy. I downloaded the older version and pulled it out. Thanks all you helpers for helping 🙂

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Noeland

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I'm guessing that whoever was responsible for this at Pantone, pulling this license, had zero idea what they were actually going to be doing to thousands of print shop art departments who use the solid coated and solid uncoated swatches all day every day to work. Creating a subscription plug in was an absolutely terrible idea. I'm sure this was a bottom line decision from Pantone. I hate it. It's making my job incredibly difficult today. But corps do this. They do not care.

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Bobby Henderson

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My guess is some "bright" new bean-counter hired at Pantone came up with the brilliant idea to effectively double charge its customers. IMHO, this is one of the flat-out most stupid, idiotic things I've ever seen a graphics-related company do. The digital versions of Pantone color swatches are absolutely worthless to anyone who doesn't have a physical, real-world swatch book corresponding with the same colors. The digital swatches help sell the physical color swatch books. The digital swatches are practically a form of advertising. This situation will give many users all that much more incentive to use only RGB or CMYK colors in their artwork and bypass the whole Pantone thing entirely.

This Pantone issue is creating a big, stupid mess. Previously it wasn't going to matter to us if a customer provided Illustrator file had Pantone-based fills applied to the artwork. Going forward it's going to be a compatibility issue. Not everyone will have backed up copies of Pantone color books from a previous version of Illustrator, Photoshop or InDesign to re-use in current versions. They'll see trouble receiving artwork with any kind of Pantone spot color fills. Those who choose to pay $15 per month to get access to newer Pantone colors will have a file compatibility adventure if they need to send artwork to another vendor. Not everyone is going to get on this Pantone Premium train.

I'm not sold on this Pantone thing. A physical Color Formula Guide with coated and uncoated swatch books costs upwards of $200. I don't want to pay another $180 per year on top of that just to have a digital equivalent of it in Illustrator. That's a rip-off. If I do get in a position where a client is insisting on using some brand new Pantone color I'm going to tell the client that color will cost extra. I'm not eating that cost.

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Bobby Henderson

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Exactly. I've never needed a physical copy of the pantone book before today. For the last 20 years I have been able to use the digital version inside illustrator with no issues whatsoever. The physical copy was something the printers used out on the floor to mix and match ink before printing a job. Many times a day I reference pantone spot colors inside client provided files to assign the needed spot colors to create print accurate proofs, and then make separations for printing. It's an age old print shop workflow system. It was simple and it worked well.

@Noeland, we've always had to have physical copies of Pantone's spot color swatch books on hand to compare to various sign production materials. In the past the Pantone spot color books were handy to cross reference against translucent and high performance vinyl colors from 3M, Gerber, Avery, etc. There aren't very many color choices in acrylic sheets; a Pantone book can help make the nearest, best guess. We've used intermix paint systems (Lacryl previously, Matthews now) that have formulas for simulating most Pantone spot colors. But you can't tell how accurate the paint mix really is without having a Pantone swatch book for comparison.

Over the past decade we've gotten heavy into large format print work. Some printers have extra inks (like light cyan and light magenta) to boost the gamut range. The RIP software works in conjunction with the printer to better hit a Pantone reference color target. That's going to be a mess going forward unless we can manage to just stick with using "legacy" Pantone colors. In the future I can see us having to switch over to something like L*a*b instead.

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7Mod2

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Great thanks.

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mtvessell

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I was able to copy the SOLID COATED and SOLID UNOCATED books from an earlier Illustrator version into the current version. I am able to access the SOLID COATED color swatches, but it will not allow me to use them within my artwork. This is such BS.

Monika Gause

Community Expert

Please tell us what you did step by step.

People on this forum are not responsible for whatever happened here. Just trying to help in our spare time.

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