RE: The MESS at the PRESS campaign
RE: The MESS at the PRESS campaign
- Subject: RE: The MESS at the PRESS campaign
- From: Henrik Holmegaard <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 02:26:45 +0200
Steve Upton <email@hidden> writes :
>What is the point of this thread?
Harmonize before exporting PDF or streaming PostScript, same message as
in the cookbooks and the iQueue manual.
Harmonizing works best if RGB is placed as in that case there is no
initial gamut loss and no reseparation artifacts.
>- device-link profiles are bad for late-binding workflows. I would
venture that
>they have nothing to do with them. They are either used to get people
out of
>workflow dead-ends or heading into the purposeful dead-end of proofing.
>- device link profiles are unusable in a PDF/X workflow. same as above
Covered on the Printing Color list.
>Truthfully, I was not aware of an overall need/desire for workflow
inversion
Workflow inversion? The news is that it is now possible not only to
embed the ICC source profile in PDF and have its AtoBx backward
transform paired with a forward transform used by somebody else with
unpredictable results, but to embed the ICC destination profile in the
PDF such that rendering of RGB objects may be predicted just as surely
as if they were still in Photoshop or InDesign. In other words
inversion refers to the OutputIntent.
>Let's applaud those who join industry organizations and support the
companies
>(and printers) that work to support standards by buying their
products. Specs like
>the ICC were meant to evolve as we learn how to do things better.
I'm confused by this conclusion. Am I supposed to be opposed to open
standards table formats and / or late binding approaches for page
design?
My target is the approach taken in the Seybold 2001 slam of ICC color
management by Dan Margulis and Chris Murphy which encourages the notion
that proprietary is better. I am looking for a change in the message,
and I am not reading a change in the message. Encouraging the notion
that proprietary is better encourages underlying notions which are
factually incorrect. It also cuts off the ColorSync community from the
printing process.
Thanks,
Henrik
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