Re: ICC'S AND BESTCOLOR, tag usage
Re: ICC'S AND BESTCOLOR, tag usage
- Subject: Re: ICC'S AND BESTCOLOR, tag usage
- From: neil snape <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 20:54:46 +0200
on 14/09/2001 19:00, Steve Upton at email@hidden wrote:
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If I could make an impassioned plea to BESTColor and other vendors
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and standards-setting organizations:
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If you need to alter a profile to link it with another file
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(linearization for instance) or to mark it as in compliance with some
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standard or for any other reason: Please use the extensible ICC tag
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architecture and create a unique tag for your purposes.
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BESTColor's tool alters the "desc" tag which is the internal profile
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name/description tag. If a user wants to rename a profile after this
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alteration, the link to the lin file is broken and the RIP may not
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print color properly. It seems to us that altering a profile's name
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is a reasonable change that any user can and should be able to make
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without fears of breaking some link.
This is something that is dearly needed with any interested ears to our
pleas , the users. There's not only the description tag in Best but a arcane
naming code that applies to the linearisation table. They've also choose
some strange naming of rendering, ie; photorealistic for perceptual,
rgb>cmyk with profile for relative rgb to 4 colour, and a few few more.
It's like Henrik said about a year ago, "let's get the naming schemes
normalised".
Even with great products like Best there is still room for improvement!
Neil Snape email@hidden
http://mapage.noos.fr/nsnape