Re: Panther, sRGB, web browsers
Re: Panther, sRGB, web browsers
- Subject: Re: Panther, sRGB, web browsers
- From: Uli Zappe <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 04:57:17 +0100
Am 15.12.2003 um 04:37 schrieb Chris Murphy:
While a good idea in theory, in practice practically no applications
use the currently available system level settings.
Really?
I'm just getting into color management, and honestly, am totally
surprised by your statement. From an outside point of view, everything
else but system level seems utterly idiotic. It was twenty years ago
that each app used to have its own printer driver, and this certainly
reminds me of that.
Is this really true? I mean, at least choosing a different *display*
profile obviously influences all apps; all windows/window contents of
all apps look different with a different setting. I would expect the
same to be true with printer settings.
If system wide settings wouldn't be honored, how could I tell my word
processor to print this purple headline correctly? (Word processors
usually don't have ColorSync prefs...)
Is this the reason for my current problem that changing the Color
LaserJet 5500's ColorSync profile in ColorSync Utility doesn't seem to
change printings from Preview, TextEdit and the like at all? I was
absolutely sure that changing this profile *must* influence the
printing of all apps. I also thought apps wouldn't need to implement
anything anyway, only the vendor of the printer driver (HP in my case)
would, since all apps use this driver.
I can hardly believe that's not the way it works. Why have this setting
in ColorSync utility at all? (Then again, no major Mac OS X word
processor uses Mac OS X's spelling dictionaries... :-(( )
Anyway, even if it isn't now, that's certainly the way it should be,
not just "in theory"...
Bye
Uli (quite confused)
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