I, too had missing Pantone colours. Pantone Color Manager is up to date and showed the colour I needed in the Fly Out book (a Pastel, Pantone 9064C), but I just couldn't access it through inDesign. I tried all ways.... a dirty cheat, in my case was this: I could access Pantone 9064C in Illustrator, so created a new illy document, drew a circle, coloured it with Pantone 9064C, and imported that to my InDesign document. The Pantone colour came with it and placed itself into swatches. So at least I got my Pantone colour where I needed it to be, but I still don't know why I couldn't access it the way I was supposed to...

rob day

Community Expert

Each application looks to different folders for the Pantone .acb files. It sounds like your InDesign and Illustrator .acb versions are different

Check your book versions. For Illustrator it is:

/Applications/Adobe Illustrator CC 20XX/Presets.localized/en_US/Swatches/Color Books

InDesign:

/Applications/Adobe InDesign CC 20XX/Presets/Swatch Libraries

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kathykate 23

Inspiring

The thing is, because I was having problems, I deleted all the old Pantone books in inDesign, and reinstalled them using the up to date Pantone Color Manager (File/export/InDesign/Lab. As you can see by screengrab, my colour I need is there (Pantone 9064C) but it just never makes it to InDesign Pantone Color books, yet I can access it in Illustrator. It was very frustrating until I invented my work around.

Perhaps it won't work nicely with CS6?