It appears that, as of version 27.9, the swatch book workaround no longer works.
The copied books are still in the folder, but no longer appear in Color Books.
They still work in InDesign, but will it last?

I realize that it is too late, but to me it looks like they added a gradient to this image:
https://hallmarkuniversity.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/1-19-Martin-Luther-King-ftr.jpg

May require a hex. Or a decimal.

It appears that Illustrator v 27.00 still has the spot Pantone books, but v 27.01 does not.

I played around with ArtPro+ 16.1 last week, and it looked pretty powerful. It is due to be released in late June.
In order to select which tool to use, right click on the screen and a wheel appears with the tools, which are grouped together. Select a tool twice to move to the next one.
The palettes appearing on screen change depending on which tool is active, so no more needing a second monitor to put all the palettes on, or hunting for the one you need, hidden behind one you don't.
It does trapping, including "trap similar," and if you upgrade from essentials to advanced, you also get a "trap everything" button as well as step and repeat.
If you open a normalized pdf, it saves out a normalized pdf. If you open an Adobe pdf, it saves out an Adobe pdf.
If you wish, you can rename individual elements, or groups of elements, so that you can later track where changes were made, or what is going on with the file.
It supports creation and execution of ArtPro Actions, so you can use those in Automation Engine instead of PitStop ones if you tire of exporting to Adobe pdfs.
In short, it looked like a big improvement over Neo to me.
Only a bit over a month to wait now.

Photoshop CC (2015.5) came out yesterday, and has implemented this feature.

I think the idea was you snap a pic or scan a page. If you have a PDF already, it might have fonts in it already.

According to this article, Photoshop CC is going to have a new font ID feature. Highlight the font in Photoshop and it will tell you what it is.

They are calling it DeepFont.

Viner Hand is the one I came up with as well.

+10 tracking and skew it 17°.

Yeah, you have to watch out for grouped items. I especially enjoy it when they place unnecessary rules to show me where it will fold 2 or 3 times in black ink, right up against the trim box, and then hide them behind guides so I can't see them. Then give me an 8 page PDF with those on every page (as though the back will fold differently) that I need to split into 4 different pieces. And type inside the bleed on each one to tell me which page goes with the rest, using some naming structure that does not relate to the descriptions I can see.

Quote from: Farabomb on April 26, 2016, 12:38:05 PMI am no longer amazed by what other vendors do.

I've seen them remove my slug lines and job identifiers for no reason.

Personally, I do that all the time.

Having "bonus" items on the pasteboard
1. Slows everything down.
2. Often is where that "missing font" is located.
3. Often contains incorrect separation information (my workflow will already indicate inks on the proof).
4. Often contains incorrect trim box dimensions (my workflow will indicate dimensions on the proof).
5. Often contains marks in inks that are not used in the job, and thus not intended to be inks at all.
6. Are often positioned inside the bleed.
7. Make it very difficult to re-position pages, which is somethings I often need to do.

I delete all the spurious stuff (anything that won't print or indicate a perf), pull all the text/graphics boxes to actually fit inside the bleed, remove all ten returns at the end of stories so that the type fits inside the text box. I always figured that stuff was mostly just an ad for the designer anyway. As a general rule, the designers rarely get our cleaned up files back anyway, so they are none the wiser. I also re-position items so that they are truly centered, have consistent margins, etc. If everything was obviously positioned by eye rather than mathematically positioned, I figure the designer was just being sloppy or lazy, and the design becomes open to anything I feel would make it look better.

As far as logos go, I often get an RGB low res one, and am asked what spot color should be used. I usually go on the internet and look for a professionally done corporate publication such as an annual report. Often times, you can get a good vector logo with spot colors off of that.

What I remember reading (directly from Adobe, I believe) is that periodically, one of the Adobe CC releases was going to be "archival," and that is the one that you could continue to use. I will try to find a link.
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Ooookay, unable to find a link. I guess they moved the bar. Who could have possibly seen this coming?

That is known as "Lab black" or "Black lab" or something like that.

You will most likely also want to change the corner option to the same thing (box immediately below the one Diddler suggested).

Quote from: gnubler on July 30, 2013, 09:22:53 AMFuck plastic.

I think I saw a website dealing with that very thing.