6 Replies Latest reply: Jun 15, 2012 10:27 AM by Mike Gondek2 RSS

    Pantone Swatches Panel Not Persistent

    Chris Vreeland Community Member

      Sorry if it seems like this has been covered, but I've searched through the forums and can't find a solution.

       

      Bog-standard install of CS 5.5 Design Standard suite on a Mac, OS 10.7.3, everything is up to date.

       

      No networking, all apps insatlled locally, Swatches reside in /Applications/Adobe Illustrator CS5.1/Presets/en_US/Swatches/Color Books.

       

      I'm logged in to an admin account.

       

      I've tried saving workspaces with the Pantone Solid Coated swatch open and marked "persistent" and nothing seems to work.

        • 1. Re: Pantone Swatches Panel Not Persistent
          Mike Gondek2 Community Member

          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. Viola.

           

          Too bad the illustrator beta doesn't have better people, or problems like this would have been fixed a long time ago.

          • 2. Re: Pantone Swatches Panel Not Persistent
            Chris Vreeland Community Member

            That's very helpful, but for some reason when I do it that way, I get two copies of the panel in the same tab wen I relaunch, one the way I set it, to small list view, & the other defaulted to the small swatch view. Better than before, I suppose.

            • 3. Re: Pantone Swatches Panel Not Persistent
              Chris Vreeland Community Member

              Okay, weirdness. When I dragged the second one out of the tabset & closed it, they both went away. I reopened it, and they both appeared again on relaunch, and instead of dragging it out and closing it, I just unchecked persistent on one of them, and now it's all good. I guess one of them was the default set in aplications, and the other was the user defined one. (I had copied instead of just moving the file)

               

              Seems like an oddly stupid bug for such a "mature" program.

              • 4. Re: Pantone Swatches Panel Not Persistent
                Mike Gondek2 Community Member

                I understand what you mean, the program should be more advanced by now, but then look at all the bugs in MS Word, and how long they have been around.

                 

                Not that much competition with freehand gone, besides Xara & Corel Draw. With Adobe using more and more second third world programmers for the engineering crew, not really as many great advancements like in the 90s. Still the best program out there for the job, but not sure for how much longer as Xara is gaining ground fast.

                • 5. Re: Pantone Swatches Panel Not Persistent
                  Kurt Gold Community Member

                  With Adobe using more and more second third world programmers for the engineering crew, ...

                   

                  Some people around the world may be uncomfortable with that statement. Some others probably think it's an egregious defamation ...

                   

                   


                  ... , not really as many great advancements like in the 90s.

                   

                  Frankly, isn't that just pure nostalgia?

                  • 6. Re: Pantone Swatches Panel Not Persistent
                    Mike Gondek2 Community Member

                    Sorry Kurt and others, was in a bad mood that day. Was training people overseas, and after seeing all the pirated software and other things put me in that nasty mood.