Example just for illustration:
I open a new AICS5.5 and AICS6 doucument and fill a rectangle with PMS 485 (Bright red) from the PMS Colorbooks. I understand that the new + Books in AICS6 are LAB. The color in the actual rectangle in AICS6 looks very close to a PMS 485 in a swatch book (yeah!). The color rectangle in AICS5 looks a bit more orange, but not horribly off.
My problem is with the SWATCHES PANEL ITSELF. In AICS6 all the swatches appear really off and generally desaturated? For instance the 485 swatch in AICS6 looks like a "rust" color (certainly not a true red of any kind). I realize that you should never rely on a computer monitor to make Spot Color decisions, but really, do they need to display this far off? What can the color look so good in the document and so lousy in the swatches panel? If I change the document mode from RGB to CMYK, should not the swatches panel change to match?
Here is a cut-n-paste from what I am getting - looks at the measured values in Photoshop.
