![]() ![]() There are LOTS of complaints over how buggy and poorly designed the Pantone connect software is. They obviously did not think this issue through. Clearly this idea was dreamed up by some new bean-counter at Pantone. They're going to goof up graphics work flows all over the place. There is a chance Pantone will be forced to reverse course on this ploy to generate more revenue. That latter problem is what really makes this Pantone thing such a very stupid mess. Anyone paying the $180 per year fee for Pantone's "connect" service that applies new spot colors in their artwork and shares the file with you will have problems. Second drawback: you're not going to see any new colors Pantone adds to its library. You'll still see "this document contains Pantone colors" warning when opening a file with Pantone spot colors applied to objects. There are two drawbacks with pasting copies of the "old" ACB files into the color books folder of the current version of Illustrator. Some people in the Adobe Community Forums have mentioned seeing other sites online sharing these color book files. I made back-up copies of all those ACB files as soon as I heard about the Pantone fiasco months ago. Paste copies of those files into the appropriate folders of the updated Adobe applications. Then go to the appropriate folder(s) where the Pantone color swatches are stored and make back-up copies of those ACB files. Install a previous version from the Creative Cloud panel. There is a work-around for Illustrator and InDesign. Maybe Pantone sees Corel and Serif as "little fish" too insignificant to reel in, unlike Adobe. Rival applications to Illustrator, such as CorelDRAW or Affinity Designer, are not affected by this Pantone color books issue (at least not yet anyway). ![]()
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