Re: New Adobe profiles ( was: PrintOpen profiles)
Re: New Adobe profiles ( was: PrintOpen profiles)
- Subject: Re: New Adobe profiles ( was: PrintOpen profiles)
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 17:36:43 EST
In a message dated 10/28/00 10:07:49 AM, email@hidden writes:
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Considering the market dominance of Adobe does anyone else think these
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new
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PS 6 profiles will become de facto standards, allowing content creators
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to
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use them as unofficial printing standards for overseas printing like we
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use
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SWOP for domestic magazines?
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This issue came up when the first version of the profiles appeared, and the
problems that arose was messy and expensive. This time around they should
indeed be capable of use as industry standards, except that they are not
necessarily available for free distribution. This is a bit awkward, since any
image tagged for one of these spaces can be used to extract the profile,
which is then available for other uses. So it is virtually imposible for the
profiles not be end up broadly available in a practical sense.
But Adobe has not made it clear if it is planning on restricting distribution
of the profiles or not. It would be a very nice gesture on their part if they
did in fact make them publicly available for download on their website, and
specify that they were available for free distribution if accompanied with
their read-me file explaining the licensing terms. It would be a step forward
for ICC based workflows.
C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
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