"Pantone No Longer Available" Photoshop Popup

[KathrynB82D]

It has been 3 years now Adobe! We GET IT!!! Pantone is no longer available. 

Either turn this thing off or give us the option to turn it off!!! 

IT WASTES TOO MUCH TIME!!!

[Aleke]

Hi @KathrynB82D! Welcome to the community!

Sorry to hear about the frustration you're experiencing. Could you let me know what version of Photoshop you're using?

Also, could you try the solution mentioned by Stephen here and see if that helps?

Thanks a bunch!

Alek

[Stephen Marsh]

@Aleke – Thank you for the recomendation, however, my script was a bandaid solution. If this topic was marked as an "idea", then I would say now that the political dust has long settled, the dialog needs a "do not show again" checkbox. 

[KathrynB82D]

I have and it does not work.  I am running the latest 2025 version of Photoshop. I was surprised that y'all still didn't add the check box to the Pantone pop-up.  I don't have time to keep clicking "OK" when I am opening 20-30 files at a time, and I definitely don't have time to go through my templates to recreate and/or find the "Pantone" layers.

Adobe just needs to add that lovely little check box to the Pantone pop-up.

[Stephen Marsh]

I have and it does not work. 

@KathrynB82D

What exactly have you done which doesn't work?

For now, the script that I wrote which was linked earlier by @Aleke is the only alternative for later versions of Photoshop to open images bypassing any warnings (whether Pantone or other).

[KathrynB82D]

I followed all of the directions to install the script, but when I ask it to run it; it says it is an invalid script.

Adobe just needs to make this easy and add that lovely little check box that we can tell it to never show again so it can die in the abyss of pop-ups that we hate seeing.

[Stephen Marsh]

I followed all of the directions to install the script, but when I ask it to run it; it says it is an invalid script.

I'm happy to help you to get it working, can you post screenshots of any error messages, how you are running the script etc. For example, someone tried to install it in Bridge, however, it's a Photoshop script. Another common issue is saving the script code as rich text format and not plain text.

Adobe just needs to make this easy and add that lovely little check box that we can tell it to never show again so it can die in the abyss of pop-ups that we hate seeing.

By @KathrynB82D

Agreed. This post is a discussion, not an idea (feature request), so it may never come to the attention of the appropriate Adobe employees.

[Trevor.Dennis]

I remember Linus having a major rant about Pantone a while back, and from what he says, I'd say this is out of Adobe's control.   I've used Pantone Connect a while back, but I just tried it and I appear to be getting limited access.  I expect our @D Fosse would say it is meaningless picking colours from a browser, and he is probably right.  The printer was happy though, and the job was fine.

[Stephen Marsh]

@Trevor.Dennis – As Pantone is an entire workflow and ecosystem, from design to ink mixing for press, I was truly surprised that there wasn't more negative feedback!

More on how to deal with this at my blog:

https://prepression.blogspot.com/2022/12/photoshop-2022-pantone-color-book.html

[Bobby Henderson]

The on-going situation with Pantone and Adobe's applications has been ridiculous. I don't know if the move was deliberate or just incidental, but the result looks like Pantone singled out Adobe with its demands while giving various other software developers a break.

Current editions of Affinity Designer and CorelDRAW have updated Pantone color books. A variety of industry-specific applications also have their own Pantone color books installed. I can only guess Pantone targeted Adobe since its graphic design applications have well-established plugin architectures. They probably don't have the developer manpower to make their Connect software work with all those other applications.

Many of us have simply made backups of old Pantone ACB files to drop into new installations of Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign. That step doesn't always get rid of the annoying pop up message about Pantone colors, but it does keep spot color fills from turning black. One upshot: just having those old color books present in program folders will allow newer spot colors in art files to open properly.