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Pantone unavailable in Illustrator 2022

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September 18, 2022
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How do I update Pantone Color Palettes inillustreter Illustrator 2022 so that missing colors can be made available (i.e.: colors 2389 & 2263 are currently unavailable via the Pantone Coated Color Library.

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

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Correct answer Willi Adelberger

Pantone Libraries have been removed from all Adobe Applications.

You should contact Pantone.

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Mnadeem37127777hjmk

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i am interesting in illustrator

Nacho Noodles

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This is a ridiculous situation, I would never have bought a subscription if I had known that I would not be able to specify Pantone colours. All my clients use a variety of spot colours - so how do I speak the same language as the printer if I cant specify a Pantone colour...? The software is now redundant to me. I have just wasted an hour of a busy morning reinstalling the older versions of the software AND downloading the Affinity software, so that I can actually do my job. I mean Adobe, this really is DUMB!!!

Monika Gause

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You might want to contact Pantone about this. They pulled their libraries out.

For communicating with printers about colors, what you need (and what you actually always needed) are the printed swatches books. Only they can show you how the color looks. And then you can just setup a spot color, and name it so that it communicates with the printer.

Nacho Noodles

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Apologies if my post is construed as 'having a go' at anyone, I upgradeded Illustrator this AM and as if by magic my Pantone Swatches disappeared...no word of warning, no way of creating them accurately. So mid job, I had to waste and hour of my team reinstalling an older version so I can work on the files I created yesterday and even better - had to recreate all my settings and preferences in the older app - so another hour gone. Adobe could at least treat there subscribers with a modicum of respect, most of us are doing a job, usually under duress to get things done on budget and on time. Which is made increasingly more difficult with things like this. Yes I will approach Pantone, but if this churlish approach to their customers in indicitive of anything - I'm sure I will be wasting my time. It's their inks that are being specified here, so how do I ask a printer to use their ink, if I can't specify it? This is a Shambles on the part of both companies - and handled in a pathetic faceless corporate manner. Please sort it out.

Dave Creamer of IDEAS

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If you are printing as a true spot color, you can make your own spot color and try to make it look as close as possible on screen.

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

Dave Creamer of IDEAS

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[Moved to Illustrator forum]

I simply copied the old Swatch libraries from the prior versions to the new AI presets folder. Granted, it won't have the latest-and-greatest colors in it, but they still work.

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

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chrisa68544975

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How do you copy over the prior version? I have another workstation that still has the pantone solid color library.

chrisg11235813

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Go to the old applications swatches folder, and copy the colour book you need into the new application's swatches folder.

(on a Mac)

Adobe Illustrator 2022 > Presets > en_US > Swatches > Color Books

Willi Adelberger

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Pantone Libraries have been removed from all Adobe Applications.

You should contact Pantone.

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KMFC2

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So Adobe removes Pantone libraries. Now they raised the price of my subscription. Plus, Pantone wants $15.00/month (per the Verge) for the privilege of using Pantone colours. Which adds up to $795/year. Why should I not look at alternatives to the Adobe suite? Affinity is $65 for the Indesign equivalent app, one time payment, including Pantone colours.

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Bobby Henderson

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Is a class action lawsuit being explored against Adobe? Based on the amounts they charge annually or such, pantone has always been included. Pantone indicates that Adobe basically refused to pay for access to the color charts like it has all these years and that is why Adobe removed them; even indicated that they wanted it for free...

IMHO, Adobe is not the "bad guy" in this situation. Pantone is the villain this time. They're the ones singling out Adobe applications to hide digital representations of their various spot, process and speciality colors behind a pay wall. I guess it's not enough that users such as myself have to blow nearly $200 for a pair of spot color swatch books roughly every year. Some bean counter decided it would be a good idea to double-charge customers.

If anything Adobe should be charging Pantone a sum of money to include their various color libraries within Adobe's applications. None of the physical, real-world products Pantone sells are cheap. Pantone actually needs those digital swatch books present within various graphics applications to help sell their physical products. The digital swatches inside the graphics applications are a form of advertising. IMHO, the choice Pantone is making is just very very stupid. I can only see their sales dropping. On top of that, I've seen lots of complaints about their "connect" service/software being buggy and not ready for prime time. That's more insult and injury to sustain for paying $180 per year just to have access to updated digital versions of a swatch book.

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