Using Pantone swatches in Illustrator. How to add Pantone swatches in Illustrator: Step 1. Remove the default color from the Swatch window. Adobe Illustrator Pantone is an update for Adobe Illustrator includes four PANTONE libraries: - PANTONE Solid Coated - PANTONE Solid Matte - PANTONE Solid Uncoated.

A newly-minted InDesign CS6 user e-mailed us this query: I wanted to see if there is a way to change the display of the Pantone Plus book colours instead of by colour/grouping, listing them numerically. If you try to type certain numbers in it, you can’t find them (ie: 543 always defaults to 5435 and you aren’t allowed to change it/delete the additional “5”). Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Unfortunately, I can’t see any way to change the order of the swatches in any of the color libraries in the New Swatch dialog box. My guess is that since they’re embedded in a dialog box (as opposed to a panel, as in Illustrator, where you can sort a library’s swatches by name), InDesign can’t really provide that flexibility. It is frustrating that in earlier versions, though, you could enter “543” in the Pantone spot color Find field to get Pantone 543, and “5435” to get 5435; but you can’t in CS6-as you said, it always jumps to 5435. The only way I was able to find Pantone 543 in the screen shot below was by typing “54” and then using my up and down arrow keys for a few minutes until I found the sucker.

I believe this is a bug with the new Pantone+ libraries in InDesign CS6, and hope that it’s something easily fixed in an upcoming patch. Patch For Uniblue Registry Booster 2012. Microsoft Office Permanently Activate. In the meantime, I have a somewhat drastic, but I believe safe, workaround: Add an older version Pantone swatch library back into the program, and use that to select your spot color. Adding back an older Pantone swatch library Before I get to the how-to on adding a swatch library to InDesign CS6 (and it’s quite simple), let me explain. The main difference between the older Pantone libraries and the new Pantone+ ones in InDesign CS6 is how the spot colors are defined internally for on-screen display: as CMYK (old version) or Lab (new Plus version).