7 Replies Latest reply: May 23, 2012 8:40 PM by Wade_Zimmerman RSS

    Pantone color bug

    Mike Ornellas Community Member

      I have come across a rather disturbing bug in Illustrator when copying an object with a color fill from one document to another.

       

      First off, let me answer an obivious question - both  documents have the same color space.

       

      Lets look at this example to see the condition.

       

      Make two documents with the same color space.

       

      Make an object and assign a color to it. Lets say Pantone 201C and set it to a CMYK build - not a true spot color. Now make another document with the exact same Pantone 201C color -  but specify it as a true spot color. Now copy and paste from one document to the next. As you shall see, you will get a dialog box warning you to add or discard the color to the recieving document as expected. This is a good behavior that tells the user that you have the same color builds but assigned different values.

       

      Now what happens if we assign one document a book color value of PMS 201C and the other document a "spot" color build of PMS 201C.  So we now have two PMS colors in two documents with different values assigned to them. Drag and drop or copy and paste an object from one document to the next. You shall now see that the recieving document now has two objects with the same PMS name, but two different color builds (and visual color differences).

       

      What should happen in this situation is the user be prompted with a dialog box to either merge the two similar PMS spot color builds or add - like what you see when copying an object with the same color buld name, but has a different value assigned between the two.

       

      Some of our designers are just going ape over this condition and I hope this bug could be addressed in a .01 release.