Missing Pantone Coated and UnCoated Colors in InDesign

[Tiina Ilmavirta]

Hi, 

Can you tell me how I can found Pantone+ Uncoated and Pantone+ Coated colors on Swatch Mode in Color Mode? Normally those are on there, but now there is not. Why? I need to add specific Pantone color to my graphic.

Thank you for your help.

Best, Tiina 

[Mike Witherell]

https://trainingonsite.com/190-pantone-withdrawn-from-adobe-software.html

[rob day]

Hi @Tiina Ilmavirta , If you don‘t have a backup of the Pantone .acb files from an earlier version you can get them here and manually install them in ⁨Applications⁩ ▸ ⁨Adobe InDesign 2023⁩ ▸ ⁨Presets⁩ ▸ ⁨Swatch Libraries⁩

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

[Tiina Ilmavirta]

Hi, I loaded those files but I need some App to open those.. Do you know what it is?

[rob day]

There’s no app, just download the .acb files and copy them into your InDesign Swatch Libraries folder, and you should see them in the new Color Swatch Color Mode dropdown

[Tiina Ilmavirta]

Yes, I did that. But there is: "Search the App Store for an app that can open this document, or select an app already on your computer." And I didn't find any App what works for open that. Maybe InDesign is the App, but not working with that.

[Tiina Ilmavirta]

Here is the right one screenshot.

[Tiina Ilmavirta]

[rob day · Accepted solution]

You can’t open .acb files.

From the InDesign Swatches panel’s flyout menu choose New Color Swatch and from the Color Mode dropdown there should be a list of color libraries that you can choose from—the list corresponds to the .acb files you have copied into the Swatches folder:

[Tiina Ilmavirta]

Oh yes, it's there now!

I can choose Pantone Solid Coated-V3, but after I had chosen the right color, Color Mode changed to the LAB.

Weird.

[Mike Witherell]

Somewhere around CS6 and thereafter the definitions were changed to Lab values.

[rob day]

If you are actually printing a Spot color—a separate plate on an offset press—Lab is the correct Color Mode. Many of the Pantone Solid Ink colors are outside of the printable CMYK gamut.

[Tiina Ilmavirta]

Okay, thank you for this answers!

[Wiedemann3240453756tl]

The Pantone Coated and Uncoated have also disappeared for me!! incredible that Adobe does this to us with everything we pay per month!!

[rob day]

You can still install them, see the link in my first post.