System profile vs display profile
System profile vs display profile
- Subject: System profile vs display profile
- From: John Gnaegy <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 12:00:20 -0700
Go into the Monitors Control Panel and click on the button called
"color."
<...>
What profile you pick here in Monitors will become the
system profile.
That's true if you have one monitor, but not necessarily if you have
multiple monitors.
When you pick a profile in the Monitors control panel you're setting
that display's profile. You can do that for each of your displays if
you have more than one. Each display has an associated profile, and
that profile can be set in the Monitors control panel.
In the ColorSync control panel there's a popup called Display Profile,
which lists your displays. With one display attached, you'd see only
one entry, but with two displays you'd see two entries. Choose the
display you prefer for color work, that's your preferred display.
Applications that request the "system profile" get returned the display
profile of the preferred display. So what used to be the system profile
is now the preferred display profile.
We still support apps that request the system profile, but really just
for backward compatibility. It's more accurate for applications to use
the display profile of the display being drawn to instead of the old
"system profile", because a single profile can't describe a machine with
multiple monitors.
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John
email@hidden
colorsync testing