Remove limit of 27 spot colors
We have one of the many printers that uses 6 inks to synthesize CMYK and spot colors. It uses internal look up for pantone spots, and these need to be set in Illustrator as spot colors. It's not unreasonable to have more than 27 of these (in this instance, we're creating a color chart for our / our customer reference). Thanks.
Please refer to this thread on forums:
https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator-discussions/27-spot-colour-limit/td-p/9471603
David Chivers
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Ton commented
Yes, Egor, removing the 27 limit would also solve this bug. It makes sense to combine them.
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Those other 2 mentions about 27 limit:
— 27 Spot Colour limit: https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/39387550
— Remove limit of 27 spot colors on PDF export: https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/32162746
Should I merge it all? -
When you have selected objects that use only Process colors and no spots, you will get the message: The filter cannot complete because the selection contains more than 27 spot colors.
This happens when the Swatches panel contains more than 27 spotcolors even when they are not used in the document.
The message is wrong, but it is also time to remove the limitation, there are enough multi ink printers that are capable to simulate spot colors.
See: https://community.adobe.com/questions-652/flatten-transparency-1645470?postid=7779591#post7779591 -
Isaac Calvelage commented
Agreed. and also for the same restriction in Flatten Transparency.
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Dina Dembicki
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Agreed. If you share PDFs for internal review, and have a lot of artboards with different spot colors on them, it's a pain to have to remove the ones you aren't using, then resave the file. And then the client comes back and says they don't like the specific colors you chose, and you have to go back and find all the variations all over again.
(Plus the added steps for having to re-do all the color searches using Pantone Connect, which comes with its own set of headaches.)
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Andrew commented
I have been able to count to more than 27 since I was 4 years old, Illustrator is at least double that, should be able to count higher. Come on Illustrator!
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Ditto, computers can count to 28 and beyond now, Illustrator should catch up
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Cenk Nefes
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We cannot record more than 27 spot colors in illustrator. I do a lot of pantone, but I can only record 27. I need to be able to save all colors in the color library.
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Charles
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Yes, please! This seems archaic or geared toward web use only. We use spot colours for print production with outside suppliers. It is inefficient for us to have two sets of colours - one for in-house and one for out-of-house.
