Pantone Licensing

Question

In InDesign, if the only Pantone I use is in an imported 3rd Party pdf, do I still need a Pantone connect license? Thanks Stuart

rob day · Answer

Hi @StuartMTaylor , Unless something has changed Pantone doesn’t attempt to restrict color sharing—this is an archive from their site on library sharing:

https://web.archive.org/web/20201019160230/https://www.pantone.com/customer-service/help/?t=Sharing-Libraries-from-PANTONE-Color-Manager-with-Workgroup

Also the latest version of InDesign doesn’t install the .acb Libraries for you, but you can still do it manually. If you have an older install of InDesign archived the .acb files are here and can be moved into the new version:

Applications⁩ ▸ ⁨Adobe InDesign 20XX⁩ ▸ ⁨Presets⁩ ▸ ⁨Swatch Libraries⁩

You can also get the .acb files here:

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

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