Re: Call for user feedback for ICC June meeting
Re: Call for user feedback for ICC June meeting
- Subject: Re: Call for user feedback for ICC June meeting
- From: John Zimmerer <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 13:35:57 -0800
Henrik:
First, thanks for posting the email from Dr. Brues. I hope everyone takes
him up on his offer. This is the next best thing to having the non-voting
ICC membership that was requested a the GATF conference last year.
Please give me more detail on what you feel are ambiguities. I invite others
to chime in.
For starters...
There is only one ColorSync Control Panel (e.g., for ColorSync 3.0.3 on Mac
OS 9.1) -- unless, of course, a user has more than one version of ColorSync
installed (not recommended) -- and one ColorSync Profiles folder, which can
contain profiles, aliases to profiles, as well as one level of subfolders.
There should only be one ColorSync Extension installed in the Mac OS 9.1
Extensions folder, and there can be multiple CMMs installed on a give system
(Mac OS 9.1 ships with the AGFA, Apple, Kodak, and Heidelberg CMMs).
In Mac OS 9.1 (ColorSync version 3.0.3, Monitors version 8.6.1), the
Monitors Control Panel establishes the System/Monitor profile. The user
selects the appropriate profile from the list in the Monitors Control Panel,
and that selection is listed in the ColorSync Control Panel as the Display
profile (under Profiles for Standard Devices). For most users, the profile
"highlighted" in the Monitors list will be either a "generic" monitor
profile of their Apple Display, or they'll see a profile that was created
using their monitor's EDID information, received by the Display Manager.
EDID info reflects the currently saved info for primaries and color
temperature in the monitor itself, not the display card.
The display profile is chosen through the Monitors Control Panel because we
wanted to decrease the potential for users to select an inappropriate
display profile. Users should be certain that their display profile reflects
the actual display connected to their machine -- not a "working space",
scanner profile, or other such profile. Mac OS 9.1 (mostly QuickDraw) uses
the Display profile as the source profile when rendering color for
applications that do not give the user access to or control over embedded
profiles.
For calibration, in Mac OS 9.1 the user can activate the Default Calibrator
by clicking the Calibrate button found in the Monitors Control Panel (on
most configurations, the user will need to first click the Color button at
the top of the Monitors Control Panel to get to the Calibrate button).
Hope this helps,
John Zimmerer
ColorSync Product Manager
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From: Henrik Holmegaard <email@hidden>
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Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 00:33:23 +0100
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To: email@hidden
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Cc: email@hidden
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Subject: Re: Call for user feedback for ICC June meeting
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Hey, best catch the Product Manager before he's off again ...
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John, what about those UI fixes to get rid of the ambiguities in the
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control panels and ColorSync Profiles folder?
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Henrik Holmegaard
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