The Pantone Plus Series Color Bridge coated and uncoated set contains solid and CMYK colors with sRGB and HTML equivalents, so they are suitable for users whose work intersects with traditional print and the modern online worlds. These fan guides also have the ColorChecker Lighting Indicator built in, and additionally offer a built-in ColorChecker Primer with HSL (hue, saturation, luminance according to Adobe or lightness according to Pantone) patches directly corresponding to the HSL Sliders in Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw software. Once again, these tools are no substitute for calibrated viewing boxes and more powerful calibration devices such as the X-Rite ColorChecker Passport (blatant MyMac review plug), but they are easily portable and simple to implement in the field under fire. Plus Series digital color libraries for Adobe Creative Suite and Quark Xpress are available for download free of charge.
Registering any of these products enables you to download the Pantone Color Manager v.1.0.beta.3 software free of charge. The full release version of the software will eventually be available for purchase, but free for registered users of the color guides. Meanwhile, you may enroll in the beta program and test the software for free without purchasing a qualifying product. The software is still in development, and as new features are added you will be able to update. Rating beta software is a risky exercise, but we can see great potential in this application. We had no problems with the software, and recommend investigation. If Pantone puts its full weight behind this initiative, we can envisage a future where the utility becomes as much a part of the standard software arsenal as the Adobe Creative Suite or Quark Xpress.
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Yes Please!! I heard from Pantone that they are not supporting the Pantone Color Manager after 2021. Also, it is replaced by the mobile app/ extension Pantone Connect, which does not allow you to download a library - you can only add one swatch at a time. We need a library panel option - all current Pantone color swatches in Illustrator are years out of date and don't match current books. In the meantime the Color Manager is included with the purchase of a book - use it to download the .ACB file now before it's gone.
If you have a Pantone swatch book, find the serial number (usually in bold, black letters on the bottom of one of the first pages of your book or fan) and register it with Pantone. Then you'll be able to download their Color Manager at no additional cost. Once that's been activated (using the same serial number you just used), click on the Fan Deck icon (bottom right) in the Color Manager app and select which color book you want to update or install. Once it's selected, you'll click File > Export > Photoshop/inDesign/Illustrator> and your print choice. (L*A*B for print, RGB for web). Then your Adobe application will be updated and you can find the newer colors and additional color books in your program for use.
Amazing! Over a year later and this came up in my search. Any chance you have the uncoated as well? Its so frustrating I purchased the books, but I must be putting my serial number in wrong because it wont let me access the new color manager. I contacted Pantone support about it, but in the meantime I've been losing time on this project because I don't have the right colors. So I was thrilled to find this in my search! Thank you again for posting it. I'm hopeful Pantone gets back to me but I'm not holding my breath.
The colour manager worked for me but I also had the same problem and nothing seemed to fix it, including a 2 hour call from pantone. After typing in my serial number I downloaded colour manager and then deleted all my colour libraries from the folder (mac) then copied and pasted new libraries and Whaaaaaammmmy, the colours magically re-appeared after a restart of illustrator and no more embarrassing calls from production teams asking why I'm using "close enough" colours or colours that I've made up from formulas.
This change will also affect projects that have already been created with "legacy" swatches. If you open a Photoshop, Illustrator, or InDesign file that uses a removed color, it will be filled with black, and you'll receive an error directing you to download a plugin to resolve it.
Hello indesign team, I would like to add a comment to bump this issue so you prioritize it as an update or new feature. I cannot download external software to add new colors manually due to software restrictions by my employer. Please make sure you prioritize this. It has always been challenging to add new colors manually when Pantone adds new ones to their book. It is a poor user experience. It is something that you should devote resources to fix.
PANTONE Connect is at the moment a clumsy, user-unfriendly legacy extension that no-one likes, but it is likely that the interface will be improved along the time. But as it is, even the free account gives much the same functionality as e.g. Affinity apps with the "built-in" PANTONE libraries. It comes with 15 libraries listed as swatches that can be searched by name (color code, etc.), allowing adding a picked color in user-palettes which can be saved with the account. Saved palettes can be shared with other users e.g. via email and downloaded as images with color names and sRGB color representations, which is the only free method of accessing official color definitions "numerically". The premium account gives numeric data directly and allows conversions and diverse other tools, but I suppose that PANTONE no longer gives offline direct (database kind of) access to values of any color libraries [other than mentioned above, which are exceptional because metallic inks cannot really be simulated at all, and CMYK libraries are not inks but mostly a kind of a reminiscence of attempt to achieve some predictability within process printing in pre-color management era], not at least Lab based. It is interesting to see whether human readable tables continue to be distributed (legally) in the future but as far as I know these kinds of limited-use tables have previously been published on PANTONE's consent. 2ff7e9595c
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