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Why can't I find certain pantone colours in Indesign swatch libraries?
Specifically 2158c from the solid coated Pantone Plus series.
How can I use this colour for my artwork when I can't even see it as an option in the swatches panel?
Thanks in anticipation.
See this thread, #7&8 have links to the new .acb libraries
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See this thread, #7&8 have links to the new .acb libraries
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I think this advice should be pinned to the forum, having the missing colors is a nusiance.
Could Rob's advice be pinned to the top of the ID forum? i.e.:
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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...
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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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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?
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Did you look in your InDesign Presets folder to make sure the exported .acb file was actually saved there? Check its modification date: