Pantone GOE color library

Has the Pantoe GOE color library been added to the Creative Suite products?

There is no support from Adobe for the Pantone GOE library in the Creative Suite. I believe you can download/buy such support directly from Pantone if you need it.
- Dov

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Color picker picks wrong Pantone color in color library

I have a Pantone swatch and a Pantone color book that contain the same colors. With the color library open in the color picker, I select a color from the swatch using the dropper and most times it gives me the correct color.
However, some times it doesn't.
I have verified that the 8 bit RGB values of the colors are identical in the color book and swatch (as shown in the info panel), but still it gives me a different color. Both files are in RGB color, with the swatch stored in 16bit and the color book in 8 bit (file format limitations).
What causes the wrong color to be selected? How does photoshop calculate the "distance" between the colors to determine which is closest? I would expect that it should select the color that has identical RGB values, even though the one it does select is relatively close in RGB space.

The color picker always fails on the same colors. My monitor profile is sRGB. Every color profile setting I know of is on sRGB and it doesn't seem to make a difference.
In the image below I've tried to show what is happening. In the top version, the incorrectly chosen color (wrong red value) is selected in the color library, while the info panel shows the RGB value of the swatch color that the mouse is over. In the bottom version, the correct color was manually selected to show that it does indeed exist in the color book. In this case the RGB value in the info panel (from the swatch) and the RGB is the color library are the same.

Pantone Plus Color Bridge Swatches don't match

Hi
I have used a Pantone Plus Color Bridge swatch (specifically Pantone 115 CP - yellow) in my inDesign CC 2014 project.
I have an illustrator .eps file, created in Adobe Illustrator CC 2014 placed in the document. I have used the same Pantone Plus Color Bridge swatch in the .eps file.
When printed there is a VERY noticeable difference between the yellow swatch in the inDesign document and the Illustrator placed graphic.
It looks "correct" in the Illustrator placed graphic, i.e. it matches the swatch book but where the swatch has been used in inDesign, it seems to have shifted to an almost green hue.
Could anyone explain why this might have happened?
Thanks

In your bottom capture the 187 swatch is from the the legacy Pantone library where solid color swatches were defined as CMYK. Here I'ved saved the old pre CS6 coated library and 187 is defined as a spot color but with CMYK values:
Starting with CS6 the solid swatches are Lab definitions and if you chose to convert them to process CMYK, the conversion is color managed Lab to CMYK and the results will depend on your document's CMYK profile and not a Pantone set value. If you select the swatch and look at the Color panel you can see the definition is Lab and the type is Spot:
If you don't want a color managed conversion for CMYK simulations use Pantone + Color Bridge, those swatches are defined as CMYK and the Type is Process

CS5 Illustrator Pantone+Solid Coated library issue

Hello everyone,
I have a problem with CS5 Pantone+Solid Coated library.
In CS4 this library contained Spot CMYK colors.
In CS5 these colors are Spot LAB and darker.
Does anyone has the same problem?
Thanks

When I pick some PMS Coated color, in Color Panel last simbol is LAB.
In Color Swatches I can change one by one colors to CMYK mode, but they are the same dark.
The root issue is when I open Panton+Solid Coated menu - the colors are presented in LAB mode and they are darker then usial.
In CS4 this library was presented in CMYK mode and colors were right.
In CS5 these right colors are in Panton Solid to Process menu and if I create new artwork I pick colors from here.
But when I open old file (where colors are Pantone Solid Coated from CS4) they pick the colors from CS5 Panton Colid Coated menu and changed to darker colors.

Illustrator color library display in CS5

I am having the same issue that was in CS3 with the color library window not staying open after quit and restart Ai. This was discussed in a forum for CS3 (http://forums.adobe.com/message/1255815). I have tried that fix and I have persistent checked and my Pantone library still doesn't come up when I launch AI, I have to open the pantone library everyday. Does anyone have the same problem and/or know how to fix this?

you could add an Illustrator shortcut to the Send to...Folder
- hit Win+R to bring the Run dialog
- type sendto, to open the Send to Folder
- right click an empty area, and select "New" -> "Shortcut"
- browse to illustrator.exe, to add the shortcut
or if you're comfortable editing the registry, you can add Illustrator to the OpenWithList menu
- bring up the Run dialog
- type regedit
- browse to the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\.pdf\OpenWithList
- right click on it and select "New"->"Key"
- rename to "Illustrator.exe"

No Pantones in Color Separation Preview CS4

I've got a document with nothing more than two Pantone Process Coated Colors employed in visible layers. The Pantone Colors are not showing up in my Separations Preview window. I'd like to export my separations to black & white PDF as I was able to in CS. Any help?

Pantone Process colors are CMYK (i.e. process colors), not spot colors, so the only separations you would see are cyan, magenta, yellow and black.
If you are trying to set up your design using spot inks, you need to select from a different library (such as the Pantone Solid Coated library).

Hey, How do I populate my replace colors color library in illustrator? I tried to replace color on a traced/ vectorized image and when I selected and went to the color library CC said I need to use a valid username. I was already logged into my adobe acco

Hey, How do I populate my replace colors color library in illustrator? I tried to replace color on a traced/ vectorized image and when I selected and went to the color library CC said I need to use a valid username. I was already logged into my adobe account.

Can you please show a screenshot of what exactly you want to replace where?

Why can't I find certain Pantone plus colors in Illustrator CS6 color books?

Why can't I find certain Pantone plus colors in Illustrator CS6 color books? For example I want to use PMS 2296C, but it is not coming up in the color swatch book in Illustrator.

Thanks!
I actually just came across the same thing in the meantime.
And it worked!
If you bought the physical Pantone books, there is a registration/serial number on the back. You can go to Pantone and register it (https://www.pantone.com/pages/MYP_myPantone/mypProductRegistration.aspx)
Then you're able to download the Pantone manager.
There are infact 336 new colors added to the Pantone Plus series. And this is where you need to get them. Once you have them, in Pantone color manager, you go to: File/Export/Adobe Illustrator/sRB. Then restart Illustrator.
Once you go back in, the new 336 colors are available!

Need to PRINT with PANTONE spot colors - PROBLEMS

Hello!
This is my first post here.
I am from Poland and I designed artwork for a 12" vinyl. It is going to be pressed in the US and so will be the cover get printed there.
This is my first abroad work... So far when i wanted to use Pantone for printing i prepared the artwork in CMYK and just noted (for the printer) which Pantone spot colors should be used. This is how it works here in Poland. But when i sent my artwork like this to the US printing plant - i got a reply that this is wrong and i need to prepare the files for spot color printing...
I prepared the artwork in Photoshop CS4 and i put it on a template for printing in InDesign CS4.
Meanwhile i got to know how to make new spot channels in Photoshop, but when i want to place that file on the template in InDesign - i get a message saying that i can only import RGB or CMYK files...
I Need Your help!

yeah, i knew that.
i think i sorted it out now.
i think my mistake was that i tried to import PSD files. But later on i saved them as EPS files i could import them to InDesign with the spot colrs.
We'll see what the printing plant says.
Should be good now.

Pantone PLUS color definitions

One of the frustrating things with working with spot colors in the past has been that the CMYK equivalents that Adobe products used, didn't match the equivalents that Pantone provided in their books. I've seen hints that with Pantone Plus, that may no longer be a problem. Does anyone know for sure whether the Pantone Plus color definitions will be consistent from CS products across the Pantone books?
Thanks!

Adobe default CMYK value for a spot color is the Solid to Process value. To see this:
1. Add Pantone 293 Solid Coated to Swatches. You will see the CMYK icon. Wave the cursor over this icon: C=100, M=57, Y=0, K=2.
2. Add Pantone 293 Solid to Process. Wave your cursor over the CMYK icon: C=100, M=57, Y=0, K=2.
Adobe maintains this behavior to match legacy files. If they changed behavior now, then future outputs would change, and consequently new printings could look different from previous printings. This problem was encountered by Quark users with the change to version 7, when the Quark default switched from Solid to Process to Color Bridge Coated.
To download Pantone Plus libraries:
http://www.pantone.com/pages/Pantone/Pantone.aspx?pg=20721&ca=1
In previous post PDF mentioned Lab values, and that is the better way to convert Pantone colors to CMYK. But to do this you need to open the Ink Manager through the Swatches panel (in InDesign). Enable "Use Standard Lab Values for Spots". (note: Illustrator has a similar option, although it does not have an Ink Manager like InDesign). Notice that the CMYK icon changes to a Lab icon in the Swatches panel.
The conversion from Lab to CMYK is affected by the rendering intent and the Document CMYK color space. To see these, go to Edit: Assign Profiles.
If you have a spot color in InDesign, it is much better to make it process using the Ink Manager, instead of changing the color mode of the Swatch. If you need to convert one ink but not another, click on the spot icon in the Ink Manager to convert just one.
Regarding Pantone Plus: the Lab values of the spot colors have changed from the older Pantone libraries, along with the book CMYK values.
Edit: To see all the active inks in InDesign or Illustrator, use Separation Preview.

'Pantone Black' (color bridge uncoated / plus series) doesn't 'look on screen' as black at all.

I'm working in Adobe Illustrator CC on a mac.
'Pantone Black' (color bridge uncouted / plus series) doesn't 'look on screen' as black at all. A '100%K' black (cmyk) look perfectly black. The Pantone solid black appears nothing like a 'black' at all on screen. Is there a setting that makes the colors 'look' more like the end result?
Also is there a reason, a lot of the colors in the 'Color Bridge Uncoated - Plus Series' doesn't come up in the Adobe Illustrator 'Color Bridge Uncoated' pallette?
Can anybody help me out?

What does the Pantone Black Uncoated Plus Series look like? I mean, on your screen? Is it brownish? Not sure why Pantone Bridge does not show in Illustrator Bridge. The entire color communications system(s) seemed to be a bit messed up. There seems to be a drift on screen when looking at Pantone anything these days.

Fluro bright red, Pantone/CMYK color value?

Hi all does anyone know what Pantone value/color/PMS/CMYK this scortching hot fluro red/orange color I see everyone using these days?
I know multiple formula 1 teams use it.
Eg. These photo probably dont do the brightness of it justice.
http://www.formulaworldshop.com/images/autographs/a8hamiltontshirtom5.jpg
http://www.ehattons.com/images/products/CC56401_1473806_Qty1_cat.jpg
The red is also used on their website
http://www.mclaren.com/
but again its probably not quite bright enough compared with when you see it in real life printed on a shirt or on the side of their cars.
Does Pantone now do a fluro chart or something, or something to do with their GO Pantone chart mathcing system? I've got the system before the GO one came out.
Any help would be great

It's probably an FS or RAL color. I'm sure there's some Pantone equivalent special ink somewhere, but I wouldn't go crazy over it. This is probably something that will have to be handled in teh actual production either way and you should be able to use a placeholder color in the meantime...
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Pantone Color Library

Why are the pantone colors in illustrator cc based on Lab mode and can I change the whole library to be based on CMYK as it was in cs5? When I create a pdf in cc and email it, some of the recipients see it as a solid black shape. I think that they may be using an older version of Acrobat reader because it does not seem to be happening to everyone. Thanks.

TR Wilkens wrote:
Why are the pantone colors in illustrator cc based on Lab mode?
Adobe (and Corel) made that change because Pantone made that change. They are merely staying in step with the official Pantone color definitions.
Can I change the whole library to be based on CMYK as it was in cs5?
Yes. See the "Recommendations" section in the below link. It also explains the color change.
http://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/kb/pantone-plus.html
--OB

Where are Pantone color library file locations for InDesign CC?

I cannot believe how difficult it is to find this information. It should be a quick search in the regular Help system.
I'd really like to find the file locations for Illustrator CC and Photoshop CC too, because I need to update my Pantone libraries, but every place I can find to save them does not seem to be the default location, so I end up with a really long dropdown menu of strangely duplicated library names, and I have no idea how to clean it up or where the program is looking to give me that list.
As far as I can tell, the default libraries are located whereever that first set is. The lower sets must be somewhere else, but I don't know where, because I've deleted all Pantone sets but one that I could find, but I can still see them (and the other non-pantone color books) duplicated in the lower sets.
Please help! Also, Adobe, if you see this, this information should be READILY and EASILY found through the main Help menu in any Adobe product.

This was the correct answer:
Laubender Jun 2, 2014 12:18 AM (in response to Maurice Castelbuono)
@Maurizio – the standard settings, the joboption files with the brackets like [PDF/X-1a:2001] are stored inside the inDesign app for InDesign CC 9.2.1.
The path for these would be:
/Applications/Adobe InDesign CC.app/Contents/MacOS/Resources/Adobe PDF/settings/mul
or with a Japanese version of InDesign:
/Applications/Adobe InDesign CC.app/Contents/MacOS/Resources/Adobe PDF/settings/japan
If you do a right-click on the InDesign app you can show them with "Show Package Contents" options.
All other PDF joboptions that you are creating are relative to your current User Library. They are stored in:
~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe PDF/Settings
Where the tilde sign at the beginning indicates the home of the currently used user.
You can access ~/Library, if you press the alt key when accessing the "Go To" menu in the Finder. Otherwise it's invisible.
Uwe

What is a Pantone process color?

Hi,
Hope you're doing well.
I am just starting to learn about colors and printing.
I have a job I am working on where the printer requires the Pantone colors. The person who originally created the file kept them as CMYK.
I have been converting them to Pantones by using the Edit/Edit Colors/re-color artwork feature where you then choose a Pantone library and Illustrator converts it to a Pantone.
However, with one color conversion, it didn't give me a number, it gave me "Pantone Process Yellow C." Does that mean it is still CMYK?
Thanks!

You are not correct. What you call Pantone colour, in this example, is more accurately called a spot ink. Spot inks can be produced by many companies and specified using any of those companies’ systems or none at all. Pantone is simply the most well known. Pantone also has a library of process colours, with a corresponding swatch book they would love to sell you. I have two of them, one for coated paper, one for uncoated.
Using spot colours can reduce the number of inks used to print a job, but that is not their primary purpose. The range of colours you can reproduce using process CMYK inks on white paper (also known as the gamut) is large, but limited. Also, most of those colours require one or more of those inks to be screened. If you want to exactly match a specific colour, like the red on a can of Coke, then your only option may be to use spot inks.
If you have fine details like small type that uses colour, you will get a more legible result if you print using a single solid spot ink than if you use two or more inks, any or all of which may print as a screen. Spot inks can also increase the number of inks in a job if they are combines with process colours or if you have more than four spot inks.
If you are printing on non-white paper, but need the ink colour to be exact, then process colours will not work since they are translucent. Most spot inks are as well, but they can be very opaque.
Pantone and other companies produce special inks with metallic components that simply cannot be reproduced any other way.
Each ink used requires another plate on a press and uses up one station on the press. Most offset presses have at least six stations, but there is no limit beyond cost and space. I have prepared files that use ten stations for printers that have eight station presses. This requires running the job twice through the same press or running it a second time through another press, whichever the printer thinks is more appropriate or economical. I forget, in this case, which of these were done.
The ten stations were four process colours, two spot inks, one flood varnish (covering the whole sheet) one spot varnish, one embossing die, and one cutting die. Now that I think about it, it is obvious that the last two could be done on anything that supports them since there is no ink and a much looser requirement for registration.

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