Re: OSX System profile in two places?
Re: OSX System profile in two places?
- Subject: Re: OSX System profile in two places?
- From: Chris Murphy <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 22:05:02 -0600
Andrew Rodney <email@hidden> writes:
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Here's an odd one. You CAN go into the ColorSync area and pick a "Display
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Profile" save changes and move on. When you go into Photoshop, Photoshop
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still honors the profile picked in Display (as I think it should). I don't
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know why under OSX you can pick a system profile in two places (Display and
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ColorSync) and they don't "sync" up.
It's terrible UI in my opinion. The way it works in OS 9 is exactly the
way it should work, and somehow it got broken in OS X because for some
reason Apple can't shake the idea of the "System Profile". It's like a
booger they can't flick off. The pretty much flicked it off with
ColorSync 3, but now it's back with ColorSync 4.
Basically the Displays pane sets the "Display" profile. The ColorSync
pane's Display pop-up by default shows the NAME of the display. So long
as you leave it alone, the System Profile and the Display profile are the
same, and are based on the Display pane setting.
However, if you change the Display pop-up in the ColorSync pane to
something else, that becomes the System Profile. If that's not totally
confusing, I don't know what is. And although there aren't many Cocoa
applications to speak of that are using color management, Cocoa apps that
ask for the Display profile are getting the System Profile returned to
them instead (which is a bug) - this has been my experience with TIFFany
3.
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What's the use of setting a display
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profile in ColorSync (which you can't do under OS9) and not having the
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various ICC savvy applications see it? If Apple wants to allow users to pick
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a system profile in two places, shouldn't they update the each?
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Why are we given two places in OSX to pick a display profile?
Big ol' crusty nasty booger is why. My recommendation is to stay away
from the Display pop-up in the ColorSync pane.
Chris Murphy
Color Remedies (tm)
Boulder, CO
303-415-9932
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