Re: Kodak 9500 resolved
Re: Kodak 9500 resolved
- Subject: Re: Kodak 9500 resolved
- From: Henrik Holmegaard <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 09:26:44 +0100
"Bruce J. Lindbloom" <email@hidden> wrote:
ICC profiles have a field in the header that indicates the rendering intent,
and this field is valid and should be honored in Device Link profiles. It
is easy enough to see the rendering intent recorded in the device link
profile by using Apple's ColorSync Profile Inspector. With this tool,
rendering intents are reported numerically, with these meanings:
Meaning that the alphanumeric scheme is valid for link profiles.
Not that I'd disagree it should be, but the long and short of it is
that off-line mail from some heavyweight folks on your side of the
pond suggests the digit system is considered inapplicable to links.
I've thought of link profiles a messy idea in the past. I still think
of link profiles as a messy idea.
Links are the living fossils of the ICC framework. They point back to
times when color conversions weren't modularized and there was no
device independent connection space.