ACD and new PowerBook issue
ACD and new PowerBook issue
- Subject: ACD and new PowerBook issue
- From: Bob Smith <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 07:53:20 -0600
I recently ran into a color issue with my new 20 inch ACD / 17 inch
PowerBook combo that I thought I should pass along in hopes of saving
someone else some grief.
With these PowerBooks you pretty much have to connect the ACD while
the computer is active if you want both screens to work. If you attach
it while its asleep, it wakes and uses just the ACD. That's handy if
you want to work with the PowerBook closed (I rarely do). If you
attach the ACD while the PowerBook is active it automatically
reconfigures itself to a two display setup. This is all wonderful
except that it doesn't properly reload the profiles for the two
screens. The monitors control panel will show the correct profile on
each screen but the calibration is not correct. You have to either log
off and back on; or in the Monitors preference pane for each display,
select some other profile and then go back to the one you really want.
That will properly load the profile and calibration. If any
applications are open that require an accurate profile you'll also
probably need to quit and restart them. It took me a few days of
unexpected print results before I figured out what was happening... and
I was seriously questioning the wisdom of moving to reliance on an LCD
type screen. Since sorting this out I've been very pleased with the
setup.
I'm running Panther and using basICColor generated profiles if that
makes a difference... I don't think it does but haven't seriously
tested alternatives.
And as for my vote in the very interesting continuing discussion of
untagged RGB, PLEASE make Safari recognize untagged images as sRGB.
Assuming monitor RGB makes no sense at all and I see little or no need
for the option to assume something other than sRGB. Assuming sRGB for
untagged images at the OS level makes the most sense as well. I really
don't see that providing an option for something else is all that
necessary as it should be handled by application with first point of
contact. If someone wants to bring untagged Adobe RGB photos into
iPhoto, then its iPhoto that ought to handle that out of the ordinary
setting. Putting the option at the OS level will only add to the
potential for error system wide.
Bob Smith
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