Re: PM Profiles not available in Agfa FotoLook scanner software
Re: PM Profiles not available in Agfa FotoLook scanner software
- Subject: Re: PM Profiles not available in Agfa FotoLook scanner software
- From: Steve Upton <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 16:00:03 -0800
At 4:38 PM -0500 2/6/04, email@hidden wrote:
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We've got an old Arcus II kicking around that we use from time to time to
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scan 8 x 10 transparencies so I thought I'd profile it. I generated a
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profile in PM but it will not show up in the FotoLook software.
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Interestingly, profiles for our Imacon DO show up, along with the bundled
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Arcus profiles (two for Tx and one for Rx). I've tried the usual stuff
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like changing type & creator codes, but I think there must be some kind of
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internal secret sauce that tells FotoLook which profiles are Agfa
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generated and which ones aren't. I am assuming that the Imacon profiles
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have been created with some kind of Agfa profiling software? annoying that
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the FotoLook software won't see other legitimate scanner profiles in the
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ColorSync folder. My only recourse would be to assign the scanner profile
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in PS, but that's just an extra step that I'd rather avoid if I can figure
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out a way to trick the Agfa scanner profile into recognizing my new
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ProfileMaker profile. I mean, they're both of German persuasion...they
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should get along, right? <g>
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Any thoughts on how I might do this?
Open up the profile in PM4's Editor. Go into the info area and change the type to "Transmissive". This flag is used by the AGFA software if I remember correctly.
Regards,
Steve
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