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riziharris
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November 19, 2020
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Pantone Color Bridge

  • November 19, 2020
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I just bought the new Pantone Color Bridge Coated book. When I try to add a new color swatch and specify Pantone+Color Bridge Coated many colors that are in my book don't come up for selection.

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Correct answer Dov Isaacs

Be aware that Pantone Connect is absolute not a free product. Quoting Pantone on the Adobe Exchange page, https://exchange.adobe.com/creativecloud.details.103029.html, from which you can download Pantone Connect:

 

Pantone Connect remains completely free to access while we build up the Pantone Connect platform. No payment information is necessary to create an account and use. After intro period expiration is announced, many features will remain free while others will be part of Pantone Connect Premium.

 

Once this product is out of its test phase, it will cost you to continue using certain unspecified features. Pantone has been shifting its business model from providing inks to providing printed chips to licensing individual access to its color definitions.

 

To be very clear, the reason why “over 5,600 Pantone Colors are missing from the Pantone Swatch Libraries in Adobe® Creative Cloud®, including 826 Pantone Matching System (PMS) Colors and the entire Fashion, Home + Interiors system” to quote Pantone at https://www.pantone.com/pantone-connect-for-adobe-creative-cloud is because Pantone's new business model is to license Pantone colors directly to designers and prepress professionals and not bundled with applications as previous done with Adobe. Exactly what their pricing model will be has not yet been revealed.

 

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katherinereece
Inspiring
September 5, 2022

 

After Illustrator upgrad to 2022, I cannot load my Pantone+ Color Bridge acb files any longer.  I need this to work. Help.

Windows 10 64 bit.  Latest upgrade to Illustrator 26.5 was very recent.

rob day
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rob dayCommunity Expert
Community Expert
September 5, 2022

Hi @katherinereece ,

Your .acb files have to be placed in ‎⁨Applications⁩ ▸ ⁨Adobe Illustrator 2022⁩ ▸ ⁨Presets⁩ ▸ ⁨en_US⁩ ▸ ⁨Swatches⁩ ▸ ⁨Color Books⁩

 

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    katherinereece
    Inspiring
    September 5, 2022

    Thank you that worked.

    Jens Trost
    Jens Trost
    Inspiring
    November 22, 2020

    I have another tip – use the PANTONE Color Manager. You can export ALL color books/up-to-date from PANTONE Live from the app  (as *.ase or .*acb, or *.aco) and import them as libraries in InDesign.

    If you bought a physicial color book you were licensed to use this app in the past (there is a serial number on the back you have to register with PANTONE). Same applies if you own a measurement device from xrite.


    If both doesn't apply to you,  it still is possible to use the 30-day trail version. It is fully functional to export the libraries.

     

    I'm not sure if all of this still works because there is a note on the website saying "Pantone Color Manager is temporarily unavailable for purchase." But you can still download it!

     

    So I'm guessing Pantone Connect is meant to replace the Color Manager someday...

    Dov Isaacs
    Dov Isaacs
    Legend
    November 22, 2020

    Yes, per Pantone, that product has been discontinued and will not be updated.

     

    - Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)
    hammer0909
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    hammer0909Community Expert
    Community Expert
    November 20, 2020

    Agree with several of the posts. It's just a spot color so you could just name it appropriately and plug in the values from their website. I know it's not as easy as looking it up in InDesign, but it's a pretty quick process.

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    riziharrisAuthor
    Participating Frequently
    November 20, 2020

    Yes. I can look up the values but you get spoiled ya know. Been doing it a certain way for so many years. Maybe the old pantone book was enough. The new bridge book just made the whole experience more cumbersome.

    rob day
    Community Expert
    rob dayCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    November 20, 2020

    You would hope they will fix the Connect Bridge Add Swatch bug. Users are already confused about the difference between the Solid Color and Bridge simulation libraries—creating Bridge swatches with Lab values really makes a mess of managing Pantone color.

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    riziharrisAuthor
    Participating Frequently
    November 20, 2020

    Thanks for the info. Boo Pantone.

    Dov Isaacs
    Dov IsaacsCorrect answer
    Legend
    November 20, 2020

    Be aware that Pantone Connect is absolute not a free product. Quoting Pantone on the Adobe Exchange page, https://exchange.adobe.com/creativecloud.details.103029.html, from which you can download Pantone Connect:

     

    Pantone Connect remains completely free to access while we build up the Pantone Connect platform. No payment information is necessary to create an account and use. After intro period expiration is announced, many features will remain free while others will be part of Pantone Connect Premium.

     

    Once this product is out of its test phase, it will cost you to continue using certain unspecified features. Pantone has been shifting its business model from providing inks to providing printed chips to licensing individual access to its color definitions.

     

    To be very clear, the reason why “over 5,600 Pantone Colors are missing from the Pantone Swatch Libraries in Adobe® Creative Cloud®, including 826 Pantone Matching System (PMS) Colors and the entire Fashion, Home + Interiors system” to quote Pantone at https://www.pantone.com/pantone-connect-for-adobe-creative-cloud is because Pantone's new business model is to license Pantone colors directly to designers and prepress professionals and not bundled with applications as previous done with Adobe. Exactly what their pricing model will be has not yet been revealed.

     

    - Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)
    Steve Werner
    Community Expert
    Steve WernerCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    November 20, 2020

    Thanks, Dov, for that very useful information.

     

    We get to look forward to something new to pay a subscription fee for!

    rob day
    Community Expert
    rob dayCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    November 19, 2020

    The Pantone Book Libraries have not been updated since CS6. There is a free extension from Pantone—Pantone Connect—which lets you search for any color and add it to your Swatches panel.

     

    Also, note that there is a bug in the current version of Connect—if you add a Pantone Bridge color to your swatches panel it is defined as a Lab color and not the Bridge CMYK value. Bridge colors are intended to be process CMYK simulations of the Lab Solid ink colors and should have the CMYK definition listed on the swatch, so for now you will have to manually adjust the Color Mode and values after you add the swatch:

     

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