Yep, this is one of the reasons I've always disliked this approach to
turning off color management. The other is that it makes the
case of matching profiles an exception. Typically when you
link two CMYK profiles the black will get re-generated and the
total ink coverage will be limited by the destination profile B2A.
With this special case though, the usual processing isn't applied.
Graeme Gill.
I'm generally fine with operating under the assumption that people
doing true CMYK will be using a RIP which is much smarter than the OS
and bypasses its pixel pipeline entirely, but it does still seem like
an infuriatingly backward approach from the company that practically
invented desktop color management.
It's great that all this magic happens without any intervention on the
part of your average word processing app developer, and it's also
great that anyone who wants to do any drawing anywhere is now being
made aware of the fact that you cannot accurately define a color
without also defining the color space it should be interpreted in
(QuickDraw documentation never even mentioned it I don't think), but
there's no reason why you shouldn't be allowed to opt-out and spit raw
numbers at an output device. Especially since measuring the device's
interpretation of said numbers is the only way you can ever define the
color space Quartz asks for in the first place.
This unnecessary runaround simply leads us into chicken vs. egg
territory and ColorSync's stagnation has reached the point that it's
now impossible to do anything useful with any of the API's remaining
functions without being pelted by deprecation warnings. Aren't the
Aperture guys seeing these? Isn't their PM complaining about their
sales figures loudly enough for Gnaegy's boss to hear? I seem to
recall being ordered to stop using FSSpecs back in '98 after CarbonLib
was unveiled and I fail to see how anyone benefits from resistance to
this particular change. I miss CFM and various other relics of the
Pascal salad days, too, but they've been dead for quite a while now.
Somebody please give us a real off switch.
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