I was wondering if someone knows how to generate a pantone chart using one of the color pallets, or knows where i can get a pantone process coated chart. Thanks in advance,

if you installed VBA during initial installation there should be a macro you can generate a color swatch from your pantone or any color palete you have visible.

If you are wanting this for visual reference you best bet is to get an up to date pantone color chart from

http://www.pantone.com/pages/pantone/index.aspx

Hi D.,

You can generate as others have shown, but some things to consider:

1. The machine you print your swatch chart on, and the paper used may be "off" compared to an authentic swatch chart. The real swatch charts are the benchmark. When printing a chart yourself at any given point, you will see the results of the values at that point, on a specific material, from a specific machine.

To simplify: printing a full page of C:24 M:12 Y:54 K:10 on two different machines such as an inkjet and color laser, no guarantee that they will look exactly the same.  What you WILL discover from your own swatch chart is a range of hues you know can be made from a specific machine, and what numbers to use in Draw to reproduce it again (on the same material).

2. The Pantone process color guide uses their own numbers, locking you into Pantone's branding and palettes. May I suggest this instead: it's premade, and you bypass Pantone altogether. Along with all the others like Trumatch and Agfa who would love nothing more than you being trapped into using their real swatch books and their own proprietary numbering scheme and palettes.

 So it's a catch 22.... the real swatch books will be an accurate benchmark for a year or two. What I find for most designers is that accuracy to a real book is less important than knowing what to type to get a hue out of a machine they work with daily. This means, if a customer brings in their logo, your swatch book you make yourself - for your own in-house purposes - will be more valuable.

You are only trying to get that color the client wants from your own equipment. Even though your swatch may look a bit different than the official "correct" equivalent.

Dave Drees:

I was wondering if someone knows how to generate a pantone chart using one of the color pallets, or knows where i can get a pantone process coated chart. Thanks in advance,

That Rocks!!! Worked like a charm. Thanks for your help!