Color Picker with Pantone conversion

In Photoshop you can sample an area with the eyedropper, click on the swatch in Color Picker and have it give you the PMS equivalent from the "book" list. I would love the same feature in Illustrator.
It makes more sense to have the spot color conversion capability in the the program designed for spot color use.
Thanks!
-Danlyn

CS3
Art containing two non-global process colors has been selected, and the Live Color dialog opened:
Below, the Pantone solid coated library has been selected from the Limit to Library popup menu, which causes an immediate lookup of the closest matching color in the library to
every color in the selected art
(notice that the brown is a tiny bit redder and the green a little yellower, showing you that the replacements have happened):
The sliders above have also been switched to Tint and a new color group was created by clicking on the little folder with the + sign above the color group list. These two steps are not necessary, I just wanted to show that they were possible. Also it was the best way to display the names of both Pantone colors.
If all you want to do is recolor your document with the same number of Pantone colors that your design uses distinct mixed colors, you're done!
All the rest of this post is just showing more variations of what you can do, especially reducing the number of spot colors used when the original document has more color variation than you want.
Here I have switched to the metallic library:
If the selected art had contained more original colors than desired number of spot colors, then you can enter the number of desired spot colors to reduce to, and it will pick the best color set of that size from the chosen library to "posterize" to, as shown below:
After reduction to two colors:
After limiting to ANPA library:
Next I've switched to the Color Wheel view, and rotated the color markers to a different position. When limiting to a library, the entire color wheel is drawn using only the colors in that library, so that you can easily navigate to nearby colors:
Swatches from Color Books and other libraries can be accessed in the Color Picker, but only when it is opened from within the Live Color dialog (by double-clicking on any color well) while limiting to that library. This gives you another method of picking a different color if you don't like the default match.
There is not yet any ability to switch libraries while the Color Picker is open, but we hope to enable that in CS4.

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