Re: ColorSync Workflow unity profiles (again)
Re: ColorSync Workflow unity profiles (again)
- Subject: Re: ColorSync Workflow unity profiles (again)
- From: Tom Beckenham <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2001 10:54:59 +1100
on 1/12/01 19:49, Henrik Holmegaard at email@hidden wrote:
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Adobe, Heidelberg, Hewlett-Packard ... others are giving these users
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safer UI implementations than Apple.
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Time to make a change here, like so:
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Implement ISO 12647-2 say paper type 2 semi-glossy for the Apple CMYK
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unity profile. Implement Adobe RGB (1998) for the Apple RGB unity
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profile. Call the Lab profile 'Lab D50' and not 'Generic Lab' which
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in any case is non-sense as the ICC specification recognizes one and
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only one Lab flavour, so there is nothing for 'generic' to be
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relative to.
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And do some intelligent, organized promo for standards-based,
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colorimetrically defined printing conditions, too.
People keep winging that every application has there own default profiles.
Very few (if any) apps use the working spaces set up in the ColorSync
control panel by default. The reason they don't is because the default
setting in ColorSync is to use the ludicrous "Generic CMYK Profile", instead
of a SWOP TROO1 profile. Please Apple, listen to what we're saying.