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1. Re: Pantone color bug
[scott] May 23, 2012 2:24 PM (in response to Mike Ornellas)Actually not a bug. I thought it was initially as well.
CS6 uses LAB as the color base. CS5 or earlier allow you to choose CMYK or LAB but defaults to CMYK.
http://helpx.adobe.com/content/help/en/illustrator/kb/pantone-plus.html
I agree the change is something which will take getting used to and I don't fully understand why it was made. There is a workaround at the link above though.
You'll see the same color if you set the CS5 or earlier swatches to use the LAB build.
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2. Re: Pantone color bug
Mike Ornellas May 23, 2012 2:28 PM (in response to [scott])Interesting read Scott, but the Pantone color on both builds are from Pantone manufactures and not generated by a users ability to customize a Spot. This condition is in CS5 and I have not looked at CS6 as of yet.
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3. Re: Pantone color bug
Wade_Zimmerman May 23, 2012 2:38 PM (in response to Mike Ornellas)And exactly why would a designer do this?
What purpose coud it possibly serve?
Even if it is a bug of some odd form what does it even matter to all those guys it is supposed to driving mad.
Does anyone do this on a regular basis?
I can't imagine the illustrator team gettimng permission or having the desire to address this so called bug.
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4. Re: Pantone color bug
Mike Ornellas May 23, 2012 2:42 PM (in response to Wade_Zimmerman)Wade -
It's unfortunate you shall always be a persona of ignorance - pretty much like our designers and therefore confusion shall always exist wich pretty much validates the rational to fix the issue.
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5. Re: Pantone color bug
[scott] May 23, 2012 2:46 PM (in response to Mike Ornellas)Oops.. looks like I read too fast initially. What I see here, in CS5 (15.1) is the pasted object automatically takes on the defined spot values of an existing swatch with the same name even if the color values are not the same.
In CS6 (16.0) there is a warning, asking to merge or replace, if the pasted values differ, but the names are the same.
I think you're right... there should be a warning. But it appears to me there is in CS6, so CS5 users may be hosed.
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6. Re: Pantone color bug
Tom Usrey May 23, 2012 2:55 PM (in response to [scott])I've just tried this in CS5, and I always get the warning dialog. I'm following Mike's directions, as far as I can tell.
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7. Re: Pantone color bug
Wade_Zimmerman May 23, 2012 8:40 PM (in response to Tom Usrey)I would like see a video of this actually happening in any version of Illustrator that would be enlightening.




