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Global Process Colors get added twice when added from a CC library, lose their name and become Spot colors.

Create a Global Process Color Swatch and add it to a CC library.
In a new document, select this color in the library, right click and choose
Add to Swatches.
The color gets added 2 times, becomes a spot color and loses it’s name.
Or, in a new document double click the color in the Library. It gets added only once, keeps it’s name but becomes a Spot color.

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Completed (Comments Open)  ·  AdminAnkit Goyal(Illustrator Team) (Admin, Adobe Illustrator) responded  · 

Hi Everyone,

The fix has been rolled out and is available in our latest release build – 29.3.0 which is available worldwide now.

Illustrator will now preserve Global colors newly added to CC Library from this release onwards.

What’s new in 29.3: https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/whats-new.html

You can update to the latest release using Creative Cloud desktop App: https://helpx.adobe.com/in/creative-cloud/help/creative-cloud-updates.html

Thank you for all the feedback.

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  • Ton commented  ·   ·  Report

    Thanks for looking into it. Related to this other problem:
    Global Process Colors get added twice when added from a CC library, lose their name and become Spot colors.

  • Kyle commented  ·   ·  Report

    I have a library of over 400 colors that i'm sharing over CC Libraries. InDesign doesn't let you add multiples colors at once, so I don't want to recreate there!

  • cme commented  ·   ·  Report

    Bug still exists! We just installed CC 2018. Colors created and added to Library in Photoshop, then used in InDesign, remain Spot colors no matter how many times you change to Process. In ID, I created dupes of each color, designated them as Process, deleted originals and renamed dupes. Ridiculous. Why bother with the Library at all?

  • Nela commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is superbly annoying, please fix it!

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    I had the same issue. Wouldn't like to redo all over again on Indesign. Does this bug has been fixed?

  • DC Jon commented  ·   ·  Report

    I work in screen printing and have a CC library saved for my standard ink colors. If i try to edit the color mix of one of my swatches it converts to process and wont let me convert back to spot color. I have to delete the swatch and make a new one to add back to my library.

  • Greg commented  ·   ·  Report

    Drop a 4CP swatch into CC Library, it retains its name. Add it to another Illustrator file from the Library, its name in the new file is its 4CP breakdown, and now it's a Spot swatch. The Spot thing is workaroundable, but losing the swatch names just makes Library a waste of time.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    was happening for me as well.

    Use indesign to create the CC Library and that won't happen.

  • Neil commented  ·   ·  Report

    I've also noticed that viewing CMYK swatches on the website library only shows RGB and HEX breakdowns for the colour so it's difficult to tell what you've added. This is still unchanged in CC 2018.

  • jo commented  ·   ·  Report

    same here

  • Ton commented  ·   ·  Report

    Create a Global Process Color Swatch
    Add it to a CC Library.
    Use it in another document.
    The process color has become a Spot color.
    AI 21.1.0 MacOS Sierra 10.12.16

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