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Color books STILL not saved in window / palette preferences?

Jun 15, 2012 9:06 AM

Tags: #illustrator #workspace #palette_not_working #color_books

I've found this a most irritating issue already since CS1.
I use Pantone colors a lot in my designs and always have the Pantone Solid Coated Color book open in Illustrator. However, no matter how often I save workspace, as soon as I close Illustrator and restart the color book has disappeared from my palette settings and locations. I have to re-open the color book every single time.
What is the problem with this? How can all the other windows be saved in the workspace settings and preferences, but not the color books?

And why is this issue not yet addressed, when it's been coming up already since CS1?

 

It's not a computer / preferences file issue.
CS1, CS3, CS5 and now CS6 were all installed on a brand new (empty save for operating system) computer.

865 Views   4 Replies   Latest reply: Mike Gondek, Jun 21, 2012 10:40 AM
 
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  • Larry G. Schneider
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    1. Larry G. Schneider,
    Jun 15, 2012 9:39 AM   in reply to marinuse
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    And you've set this for your Pantone Color Book panel, renamed your workspace after changing to Persistent and restarted AI?  Works for me.

     

    Screen shot 2012-06-15 at 9.37.12 AM.png

     
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  • Mike Gondek
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    2. Mike Gondek,
    Jun 15, 2012 10:21 AM   in reply to marinuse
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    Persistent is buggy and often does not last after reboot, but defintely try as Larry stated.

     

     

     

    This process will work:

     

    Drag this file

    Picture 2.png

    into

    Picture 3.png

    Swatches flyout Menu >> Open Swatch Library >> USER DEFINED >> (choose the swatch library you dropped there)

     

    Make this library persistent, save workspace (incase your prefs get reset in future), quit, restart illustrator.

     
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  • marinuse
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    3. marinuse,
    Jun 16, 2012 2:55 AM   in reply to marinuse
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    Larry, the persistent was checked, but that hasn't helped either, already since CS1.
    Mike, you're suggestion seems to have done the trick, at least for now. Thanks a lot!

     
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  • Mike Gondek
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    4. Mike Gondek,
    Jun 21, 2012 10:40 AM   in reply to marinuse
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    Glad to help, and that you were able to follow the instructions. Will work until the next Illustrator update.

     
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