Re: icc or icm, what's the diff?
Re: icc or icm, what's the diff?
- Subject: Re: icc or icm, what's the diff?
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 14:18:03 EDT
In a message dated 5/21/01 1:10:00 PM, email@hidden writes:
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ICC is not (at least yet) and official file extension. It is just the
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acronym for International Color Consortium, the organization that has
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provided the color standards for open color management.
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http://www.color.org
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.icm is the Microsoft file extension for a color profile made to the
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ICC specs. Microsoft's .icm is for image color matching. I heard a
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rumor that Microsoft was changing to .icc but have no idea if this is
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true.
.icc will work identically to .icm on Windows and other MicroSoft
applications, though a few third party developers might not have instituted
entirely MicroSoft compatabile code, and left the .icc extension out.
The rumor in question is based on the head of color at MicroSoft promising
me, on this list in fact, that the MicroSoft standard would be revised and
that in all future MicroSoftware .icc would be the default extension for ICC
profiles. I have not seen any indication of that occuring to date, but nei
ther have I scoured new releases and developer documentation for it.
C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
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