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January 9, 2025
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Photoshop doesn't recognize .acb files created by Adobe ACB Writer

  • January 9, 2025
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In 2022 I was provided an ACB Writer tool from Adobe support that creates Color Book (.acb) files from properly-formatted .csv file. However, these Color Book files are only recognized by Illustrator and InDesign; Photoshop does not recognize them.

 

I'm not sure if this is more about creating a more robust ACB Writer that creates .acb files that are usable across the board, or if it is a fix for Photoshop to be "less picky" about the .acb files that it will read.

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Stephen Marsh
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 10, 2025

Sounds like you were lucky to be provided with an unsupported tool that isn't publicly available.

 

Another option here:

 

https://codeberg.org/tonton-pixel/json-photoshop-scripting/src/branch/master/Utility-Scripts/Generate-Color-Book-File