jaromeB Posted July 29, 2017 Share Posted July 29, 2017 Hi I'm new to Affinity Designer, I've come across from Illustrator and I really like it, like many though I'm have teething problems and my Pantone library is one of them. When I import the latest Pantone library from Pantone Color Manager, I'm saving it as a .ase file but none of the swatches are being imported as a spot colour, well none of them have the spot icon on the swatch and they show the CMYK values? What am doing wrong? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaromeB Posted July 31, 2017 Author Share Posted July 31, 2017 Does anyone use Pantone colours, surely someone does? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronnyb Posted August 1, 2017 Share Posted August 1, 2017 Affinity apps natively support Pantone in the Swatches studio... no need to import anything. MattP 1 2021 16” Macbook Pro w/ M1 Max 10c cpu /24c gpu, 32 GB RAM, 1TB SSD, Sonoma 14.4.1 2018 11" iPad Pro w/ A12X cpu/gpu, 256 GB, iPadOS 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted August 1, 2017 Staff Share Posted August 1, 2017 Yes, you need to use the included PANTONE colours available in the Swatches panel. These are the officially licensed swatches. When we get updates, we'll obviously add them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted August 1, 2017 Staff Share Posted August 1, 2017 Actually, if you send me the .ase file you created from one of your swatches, I can see if there's some way we could load them as you intended? Anything you send to support@seriflabs.com will be used for the purpose of looking into this request and will be deleted again afterwards. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaromeB Posted August 1, 2017 Author Share Posted August 1, 2017 Thanks Matt. I'll send you the .ase files now. These would have been generated using the latest Pantone Colour Manager. I tend to use the latest version as it matches the colour books I purchase from them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted August 1, 2017 Share Posted August 1, 2017 Jarome, I have attached the Pantone version 3 palettes for coated & uncoated. I have also sorted them alphabetically as it makes it easier for me to find the needed swatch. They also, like the V2 palettes un/coated ones as supplied by Serif are RGB defined. Which makes better sense than as CMYK. (Well, LAB would make better sense but...) Serif uses CSV files for these spot color palettes. You can export from Pantone Manager as a simple listing and open in a text editor. Copy the appropriate palette from the Resources/Pantone folder found under your installation (Windows) or from wherever they are on a Mac (and this assumes the Mac also uses CSV files). Then replace the values and names in Excel or another spreadsheet application, alter the name to reflect the v3 in at the top of the spreadsheet, then save to the new name. Copy that into the same folder you copied the original from. Mike Pantone-V3.zip ronnyb 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted August 1, 2017 Staff Share Posted August 1, 2017 Thanks Mike :). Yes, the Mac version uses csv format files too. It'll definitely be an improvement if we can correctly handle the .ase files generated by Pantone's application, so I'm going to give that a stab... ronnyb 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted August 1, 2017 Share Posted August 1, 2017 If you need anymore palettes from PCM, let me know. There are other formats it can export that may be easier to parse as well. I don't think Pantone will be updating the core application in the future. They are still sending new and revised palettes for now though. It's a horribly written application. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted August 2, 2017 Staff Share Posted August 2, 2017 We've got this working now - your .ase files will import with correct spot colours in the next Beta! Also, we do support LAB in .ase files if you're so inclined... anon1 and ronnyb 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaromeB Posted August 2, 2017 Author Share Posted August 2, 2017 Excellent, well-done guys for all your help and I look forward to the next Beta. I've also noticed that when you look at the document palette (in the large list view, easier to see) it shows the dot indicating a spot colour however, when you go through the Pantone list, the dots don't appear although you know it's a spot colour when you go to the colour menu, and it says it's a spot colour. I'm sure it's an oversight but thought I'd let you know. Well done and keep up the good work. MattP 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nikko Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 I work with Pantones too and I had the same problem. So, waiting for the new version now Can we have the Pantone name too instead of the name of the file? (And maybe just the Pantone, not necessary to have all the gradients used). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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