Re: Profiler PRO
Re: Profiler PRO
- Subject: Re: Profiler PRO
- From: Rudy Vonk <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2001 10:49:45 +0200
Before C. David Tobie's marketing machine leaves orbit and departs for
outer space, allow me to query two of its more daring assertions.
In response to Joel Johnstone, and on the subject of how ProfilerPro
converts its RGB target into a CMYK file, he wrote:
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ColorVision has a ColorSettings file that takes care of this stuff for you,
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but yes, it uses perceptual, and ACE.
Please! We use the term Rendering Intent in the context of Colorsync/ICC
profiles, and gamut mapping of device independent colors. PP doesn't use
this at all (how could it) and uses the pre-Photoshop-5 CMYK seperation
setup to produce its CMYK target. It isn't mapping colors, it is
converting numbers (straight to CMYK, no reference to LAB or XYZ).
Perceptual my foot! :-)
And in response to Neil Barstow:
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>does it work with a DTP41?
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Yes, I use it with one fairly often, though I use a SpectroCam with it more
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frequently.
You can probably have this one upheld in court, but it would have been
more accurate to state that *we* work with the DTP41 (or SpectroCam),
and the PP manual merely helps by explaining to us in detail what we
have to tell these devices. PP "supports" text files. *We* have to make them.
Of course I am blissfully unaffected by the issues debated earlier in
this thread as I have had ColorBlind Pro for years, but as Richard
Millot has pointed out (thanks!), the original brains behind Colorblind
have now produced a new suite of profiling software, in a very
attractive pricing package. We even get the benefit of Henry Wilhelm's
mug shot on their web site, to reassure us that he *does* exist!
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Rudy Vonk
Oviedo, Spain
<email@hidden>
+34 607 354100
You can't always want what you get.
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