Are Pantone palettes going to be removed from Corel in 2022?

$15 per month for a plug-in just to be able to access a pair of "coated" and "uncoated" spot color libraries is a rip-off. I'm still undecided about what our shop is going to do going forward. I'm leaning toward not buying the Pantone Connect software and simply avoiding any Pantone color use if Adobe software is involved in the work-flow.

One of the big deal-breakers for me is file portability. Apparently if you open a file that contains objects with Pantone-specific fills in the updated versions of Illustrator, Photoshop or InDesign without the Pantone Connect plugin installed the Pantone colors in that artwork will turn black. That even goes for old archived files made in earlier versions of the software.

We do plenty of production in-house. But we have to job-out some other tasks. And we exchange art files back and forth with clients -some of whom are professional clients who also use Adobe software. Even if we pony up $90 per year per Creative Cloud account for the Pantone Connect stuff there is no guarantee someone who receives an Adobe file sent from us will have done the same thing. I could end up getting back something like a billboard face where all the Pantone colors are printed black. Chances are they might catch the error before printing. At the very least I would end up having to send them a new file with Pantone colors converted to RGB or CMYK values.

This Pantone thing is really going to be a mess once the Adobe software updates that delete Pantone swatches are rolled out to the user base. A lot of people are going to be really angry.

And then Adobe is going to do this same stunt all over again in January when they plan to remove support of Postscript Type 1 fonts. A lot of us long time users have substantial collections of Type 1 fonts. It's going to be another cost ding to buy some font conversion software just to be able to continue using those fonts. I don't even understand why Adobe is doing this. They invented Postscript and those Type 1 fonts. Past versions of Illustrator and PageMaker included decent bundles of Type 1 fonts.

Other graphics applications include Pantone's spot color swatches. I'm wondering if (or when) those will get pay-walled too.

As far as I understood what I read there may be a base set of colors left in the application. 

I bought a  font converter application and I have converted all my PS Type 1 fonts to True Type about a week and a half ago. I'm in the process of converting my clients fonts now.

The only Pantone color libraries that will remain in Adobe's applications (without Pantone Connect) are the Pantone CMYK swatches. IMHO those are about as useful as boobs on a bull. The spot color libraries are the only ones of interest to me. I just don't feel like paying $90 per year to occasionally use them. More likely it makes me more inclined to just not spend $150-$200 on new physical Pantone color swatch books anymore.

Which font conversion software did you buy? I'm leaning toward buying a copy of TransType from FontLab Ltd.

Dude I bought Trans LAB on your recommendation in a post on this forum.  I spent maybe $90 I don't remember it was peanuts compared to the cost of doing nothing.

I uninstalled all my postscript fonts, took all my postscript font folders one by one and converted all the fonts in the folder at one time and placed them in named folders and archived all my old fonts. Reinstalled as True Type no ptoblems.

It was so fast and easy it felt anticlimactic,  however that's what I spent the bucks on. DONE! On to the next problem.

I got my bucks back converting fonts for 2 clientproblems. 

I forgot I mentioned TransType before. I have a copy of Font Lab Studio 5 (haven't upgraded it in years). But the version I have won't do proper type conversions of existing font files like TransType. I'm not sure if it will work in Windows 11 though. I have Win 10 Pro on my notebook at home and Win 11 Pro on my work desktop.

I believe it does, check their web site. A viable utility in my opinion.