Adobe has confirmed that Pantone Colour Libraries will be phased out from Creative Cloud, although some colour books will remain available.
Therefore, aside the standardised pre-loaded colour libraries in Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign which have been phased out from 16 August, however, three Pantone Colour books would remain: Pantone + CMYK coated, Pantone + CMYK uncoated, and Pantone + Metallics Coated. The change means that customers will need to buy Pantone Connect licences to access all of the Pantone libraries via a plug-in. Again, other colour systems such as ANPA, DIC, Focoltone, HKS, Toyo and Trumatch will remain available in Adobe Creative Cloud apps.
Explaining that the change had come about because “Pantone’s licensing with Adobe was adjusted”, Adobe also stated that InDesign files with swatches from Pantone Colour Books would function as before when opened or placed in InDesign, including past or future software releases. It also said that InDesign files with place-linked Photoshop files that use spot channels would render Grey/Black in InDesign “when colours from Colour books are no longer available”.
