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Re: Colorsync Utility Source vs Destination
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Re: Colorsync Utility Source vs Destination


  • Subject: Re: Colorsync Utility Source vs Destination
  • From: John Gnaegy <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 12:43:14 -0700

How does the system know what the source profile is?

Either the file has an embedded profile, or default profiles are chosen depending on the color model (rgb, cmyk, lab). Preview, Safari, Mail, and any Cocoa app using NSImage behaves that way.

In other words, if I want to color manage an application, say Quark 6 for example, but don't want to use Quark's built-in CMS (mostly because it only handles tiffs and built-in colors)

Depends on how the app handles color so this will vary from app to app. The behavior I described above applies to the standard behavior of Cocoa apps.

Ok, now... so what is the difference between all of this and creating a "filter" in the ColorSync utility?

The ColorSync Filter section of CSU creates filters which can be used when printing. Filters aren't profiles. Profiles describe the behavior of a device and/or tweak a device to behave a certain way, they're tied conceptually to devices. A filter is more like collection of manipulations you want to save and use again, not necessarily tied to a certain device.
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