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Fat chance of that happening anytime during this calendar year! It's more like a chicken and omelet problem. A major part of the problem is that none of the guilty party application developers really “get it” in terms of its importance to the print community (or necessarily even care about that...

As I explained in my response to that LinkedIn posting, I wouldn't count on that loophole / bug not being “fixed” by the time any Adobe March releases come out. We simply don't know what other changes will be made in both the Pantone plug-in and the base Adobe applications. Adobe continues to...

There is a very big difference as to whether you see a wide range of fonts within Illustrator (including all the fonts otherwise installed on your system) versus how many additional fonts are installed by Illustrator (or any other Adobe application). Older versions of Illustrator, i.e. during...

Certainly, high quality, properly prepared PDF/X-4 files (live transparency and ICC color management - no premature conversion to CMYK) did wonders in terms of print service providers being able to reliably produce printed output corresponding to the intent of the designers using InDesign...

To be very clear, I am absolutely not trying to defend Adobe's subscription-based pricing model. I am not currently an employee of Adobe and even when I was, I was not involved in any pricing or product packaging decisions. However, to be fair, users of Adobe's applications were effectively on...

Unfortunately, this isn't a full or even honest (on the part of Pantone) reply. In the case of the Pantone VP explanation, Pantone certainly could have provided updated and/or additional .ACB files for Adobe to distribute as part of the regular updates to the applications. It was apparently...

Following up on this: I've made several attempts via a few separate contacts to get some clarification as to what we can expect with whatever updates are made to InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, FrameMaker, and Acrobat beginning in March. All I am getting is “radio silence” from those who...

As much as you hate Adobe, this whole situation really can't be put on Adobe's shoulders. If not immediately, it will affect every other application which currently directly supplies Pantone color definitions. Adobe didn't desire or request that the Pantone content be removed from Adobe...

I have just send out an enquiry to my contacts. Stay tuned!!!! - Dov

Before further speculation, let's find out exactly what Adobe's plan is! I'm working on that through my sources! - Dov

The trouble is that we don't know exactly what the change(s) will be, only three months ahead of such change(s). That is certainly not enough time to allow for customers to make potentially very significant changes to workflows that have been in place for well over two decades. - Dov

I am going to try find out what is really going on although I cannot guarantee anything. Current Adobe management certainly is not a fan of either Dov or for that matter printing. - Dov

Over the last number of years, especially since leaving the ink business, Pantone has been quite vocal about wanting to have a direct relationship with those using its assets (i.e., the Pantone color definitions) in which Pantone could sell subscriptions as opposed to an indirect relationship...

The trouble is that March 2022 is not that far away! The “impact of this change” can be quite dramatic depending upon what “the alternative solution” provided by Adobe (and Pantone) happens to be. For example, if the only change being made is to no longer provide the libraries and swatches...

Overprinting with spot colors could be a fairly dangerous proposition in terms of results. On the other hand, use of transparency with spot colors is also problematic since your spot colors may be converted to process colors during the rendering process. In terms of “shiny new technology,”...

It is true that overprint was commonly used as a kludge to simulate transparency prior to transparency being added to the Adobe imaging model and PDF 1.4. With any modern day graphic arts applications, use of overprint as a “poor man's transparency” hack should be totally abandoned. That having...

For better or worse, virtually no font foundry currently offers “free or paid upgrade options” for Type 1 fonts that they licensed in the somewhat distant past. (Remember that OpenType CFF and OpenType TTF fonts were introduced at the start of the current century, over 20 years ago! It has been...

I will confirm that the “recommendation” offered by those techs is nothing but absolute and total BS. As @namelessentity recommends, you should use PDF/X-4 export from InDesign, making sure that you don't convert any colors during export (i.e., maintain in original color spaces with their ICC...

Just go to the Adobe website <Adobe: Creative, marketing and document management solutions>. All the products are listed there.

EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) is an obsolete file format maintained for compatibility with PostScript-only workflows. It doesn't support live transparency or ICC color management (amongst other features). It also “supports” saving Illustrator source files but again, the actual Illustrator source...