Not all Pantone Colors available in XD7 Pro

[JaffDave]

Just working through a few designs and noticed that quite a few of the Pantone colors don't exist in XD7 Pro so far all six colors i wanted to use are not in the libraries. Any ideas how to update the Xara Pantone palettes.

[GerryI]

It may well be that the colours are there but have names that are now slightly different. What colours are you looking for?

Gerry

[JaffDave]

Hi Gerry,

I think it's due to having the new PLUS series. Two colors I just went looking for are 7495C (143 153 62), 7621 C (171,35,40).

[GerryI]

Are those RGB values in the brackets? There is a PANTONE 7495 C in the "solid coated" library but it is a yellowish green (102, 168, 0 when changed to RGB in DP7) much greener than the khaki-like colour that 143, 153, 62 gives (though "show printer colours" makes it look closer). The last colour with a 7000 name in that library is 7547 so it looks like they've added some more recently(-ish).

Gerry

[JaffDave]

Yes they were RGB values, I think I'll just have to make spot colors where required and not use Xara's Pantone palette just incase I send the wrong PMS to the printer.