Re: ColorSync anomalies
Re: ColorSync anomalies
- Subject: Re: ColorSync anomalies
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 08:03:04 EST
In a message dated 1/29/01 8:18:46 PM, email@hidden writes:
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I have a disconcerting problem using ColorSync 3.01 on a G4 running
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OS 9.04. I create monitor profiles using OptiCal and these are stored
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in the ColorSync folder. Immediately after doing this,the Monitors
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control panel and the ColorSync control panel see the profiles
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properly.
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Upon rebooting or starting up later, neither control panel always
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sees the proper profile. Often ColorSync has selected the Generic
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profile. The Monitors control panel often does not even display my
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profile as an option, offering only Generic and few standard profiles
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(not monitor.) Lately, the only monitor profile that is selectable is
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one I created a month ago and have since thrown away! The current one
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is still in the ColorSync folder, but doesn't appear as a selection
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in either control panel, while the older one, which is nowhere to be
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found on the system, is my only "option."
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When I select this older, non-existent profile, everything acts OK
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and pictures look the way they should. If the Generic profile is
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offered instead, all colors are off a noticeable amount.
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What's going on here?
Good question! When you load OptiCal there is a startup item that, just to be
safe, looks for the most recent Optical profile for that monitor, and loads
it. This is not exactly in sync with what the System expects, and since the
System has been doing pretty will loading monitor profiles lately, and since
there is now a System level ability to load different profiles for different
monitors, ColorVision intends to stop building that startup item into the
installer. In your case you should look and see if you have a copy of that
start-up, or any other color start-up items in your start-up folder (check in
the Extensions Manager in Control Panels under the Apple Menu). It sounds as
though there might be a conflict between assorted software here. With the
OptiCal start-up off, the monitor profiles chosen in the Monitors control
panel should be the active ones, but if your profiles don't even show there,
then there may be an association issue. OS9 has made life complicated by
trying to simplify things and only showing monitor profiles that it thinks
are appropriate for a given monitor. If yor profiles are somehow getting
associated with a second monitor they won't show, and you may need to throw
the Monitors prefs file away to get things started properly again. Or you may
have some new creative problem. I'd trash Finder prefs, rebuild the desktop
and zap the PRAM while I was at it, and if it continues, then run Disk First
Aid to be sure its not a more general problem that is just surfacing here
first.
C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
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