Black is Red/Green
Black is Red/Green
- Subject: Black is Red/Green
- From: Joel <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 08:28:51 -0500
From: email@hidden wrote:
It gets even more curious than this: ColorSync does not actually use your
monitor profile, it uses an alias to a temp copy of it. So backup and restore
software can make a mess of this. I'd suggest getting your system in the
proper state, pulling all monitor profiles out of the CiolorSync folder (but
not trashing them yet) building a new OptiCal profile, reselecting in the
Monitors control panel, restarting, and seeing where that leaves you...
Brings us (me?) back around to the System Folder>Colorsync
Profiles>Display Profiles folder: if for some reason your MAC system
loses sight of the profile you wish to use, seek out info on the
alias in this folder; if it ain't right, trash it, re-select using
the Monitors Control Panel>Color setting. This reconnects your
designated profile to Colorsync. Check info on new alias. If it
doesn't read what you want, then you likely have a corrupt
"invisible" temp (resource) file. You can resolve this usually by
trashing the alias again, restarting and rebuilding desktop in
sequence. Or you can seek out the evil temp file(s) with ResEdit or
Norton (FastFind) and burn zeros into its resource fork and data
files with extreme prejudice.
(Please note: trashing all invisible temp files will also require the
reinstallation of some software applications: most notably Adobe
Pagemaker).
Also: If you have a number of exported (saved) Colorsync
configurations (workflows), consider putting them on an external disk
or other drive when you know they are good. Under OS 9.0 my saved
configs consistently went bad. Under OS 9.0.4 this appears to have
been resolved. Don't know why. Haven't thought about it lately; at
least until Black is Red/Green started giving me nightmares (the old
additive/subtractive boogey man again).
have a special day
--
joel johnstone - designtype
Winnipeg Manitoba Canada
email: work: email@hidden
color geek in residence, reality notwithstanding