Given information that Pantone palletes will be removed from Adobe software libraries this March, and Pantone focusing on promoting their Pantone Connect extension subscription model, i was wondering if anyone heard anything about it regarding Corel software.
Update on this:
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Pantone has no other way to generate revenue. Not going to work for many, most graphic designers I know run old software so a phase in period is certainly going to happen.
$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.