Adobe Illustrator Pantone Connect LAB Color Bug
My team is running into a bug with Pantone Connect integration in Illustrator.
Steps to repeat:
1. Create Adobe Illustrator file.
2. Add Pantone swatch with Pantone Connect.
3. Swatch is LAB color, as it should be.
4. Save as PDF.
5. Import PDF into InDesign, and it comes in as a CMYK Pantone swatch.
6. If we import the native AI file, it comes comes in as a LAB Pantone swatch.
We also noticed that if you put something like a rectangle in the document, and have it selected, when you select your swatch in Pantone Connect, it will add the Pantone LAB swatch to swatches, but it will fill the rectangle with a CMYK swatch of the color. So, then if you click on the flyout menu in the Swatches palette, and select "unused colors" that Pantone swatch will be selected, because it's not really tied to anything in the document. The rectangle is filled with CMYK, not Pantone.
Gavin Anderson
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I have contacted Pantone about the first part of this, but not the second part. I'll add the second part of this onto my issues report with them.
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The second part, with the selection and the LAB/CMYK consistency, seems like an issue with Connect itself. Have you contacted them about this as well, Gavin?
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I forgot to add a screenshot showing what I meant about the PDF coming into InDesign with the Pantone color showing as CMYK, not LAB.
