Pantone Book Warning

Started by Tracy, October 24, 2022, 01:21:16 PM

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David

thanks for sharing!

I'll check it out.
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David

It looks to be just an older color book, no newer colors in it.
If it has 2254U, it would be a newer book, this does not.


and, all the color names...  weird

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Tracy

David How did you import it?
just in case  ;D

David

I did this in Illustrator:
Go to your swatches palette
click on the 3 lines at the top right
drag down to Open Swatch Library
drag over and down to Other Library
then navigate to where you downloaded the .ase file
This one is called Freetone when you see it in the list once you import

Not sure about the color names, you may need to renamed them so your RIP will recognize them, they all have the word "sempletone+" in front.
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Tracy

sweet thanks, I will keep this info as a last resort!

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Quote from: David on November 21, 2022, 09:55:34 AMI did this in Illustrator:
Go to your swatches palette
click on the 3 lines at the top right
drag down to Open Swatch Library
drag over and down to Other Library
then navigate to where you downloaded the .ase file
This one is called Freetone when you see it in the list once you import

Not sure about the color names, you may need to renamed them so your RIP will recognize them, they all have the word "sempletone+" in front.

Then you do the Hokey Pokey then you turn yourself around, that's what it's all about.

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David

don't need one, everything is about that big.  <--->.



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DigiCorn

I'm just curious, since I am currently not in the game; in all honesty, how difficult is it to create a spot color and name it Pantone 358 C or whatever? How does this work on legacy files? Do they still import correctly if you relink? If you open a previous file, will it still show the correct spots? Sorry for asking... my CS got rescinded at home and all I have is CS 5.5...
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Foozball

Don't think about the 1, think about the MANY...  >:D

Not being on the TECHNICAL side anymore ... I'll give you my problem for the next 2 months:
We have a customer about to send 150-200 pieces of packaging to address Adobe's phasing out of PS fonts - Cartons, film (bags), labels ... You'd have to go through ALL 40 items that will be printed by you and rename every spot, likely 2-4 on each piece of artwork. As would each vendor (printer) we use for their specialty packaging.
(Note I said "a" customer, there's MANY more!)

It's not something you (prepress) should need to do, it IS possible sure ... but there are NO shortcuts here, every layout must have plates remade as we can't risk a word falling off a nutritional panel in the RIP - I've seen that twice.


It's something we can all work around (likely have), BUT if new files come in and night-shift do them or the other plant does ... will it be the same outcome for every new layout?

Tracy

Has anyone lost their Pantone's?
I have not lost mine, keep this on the down low tho!  ;D

David

not yet, but the day is still young.

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Joe

Quote from: Tracy on December 07, 2022, 10:02:12 AMHas anyone lost their Pantone's?
I have not lost mine, keep this on the down low tho!  ;D
I just reported you to Adobe. How dare you keep your Pantone colors! >:( jk
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