Re: OSX System profile in two places?
Re: OSX System profile in two places?
- Subject: Re: OSX System profile in two places?
- From: Andrew Rodney <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 09 May 2002 21:23:32 -0600
on 5/9/02 7:40 PM, John Gnaegy at email@hidden wrote:
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It's a focus on devices rather than on profiles. You have a display
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device, it has a profile. If you have more than one display device,
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each has its own profile. Which display is your best one?
I'm not sure I totally understand.
Under OS9, you can call up multiple displays in Monitors and assign a
display profile for each. And I think you tell OS9, which is the "system
profile" for ICC savvy applications by where the menu bar is??? But in any
case, it's obvious that there is a main display and that this display is
associated with a certain profile and that profile is used as the System
Profile. The "best one" is the Main display in which you hope your ICC savvy
application will associate. And I'm pretty sure starting with Photoshop 6,
that application was able to deal with the display using monitor
compensation on more than one display (dual monitor setup).
In OSX it's a bit (a lot) more confusing.
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Similarly you could have several printers, one of which is your
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preferred printer. Several cameras, one of which is your preferred
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camera. Open the ColorSync Utility and look at the Devices, that's the
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idea.
That much is clear and doesn't seem to be any different between the two
OS's. What is different is simply how the display is handled between OS9 and
OSX. Seems the way OS9 operates is simply and clear. But maybe I'm just used
to it.
I recall prior to OS9, we had to set the System profile for the display
directly in ColorSync, not in the Display control panel. In OS9 that changed
and in a way, it makes sense. You can't access any other ICC profiles, even
display profiles you may have installed unless you first picked the preferre
profile in the Display control panel. I'm wondering why that isn't the case
under OSX.
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The ability to do it the old way, to pick a specific profile for the
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system profile, is only a transitional phase. Maybe it's clearer if you
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pretend that option isn't there, and you can only choose between your
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attached displays.
Could be. I guess I'd like ONE place in the OS to do this picking of
profiles, not two. The ColorSync control panel is as good a place as any. So
perhaps not having the ability to deal with profiles in Display would make
things a bit easier on the end user...
Andrew Rodney
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