Re: Remote proofing and Thurber's aunt
Re: Remote proofing and Thurber's aunt
- Subject: Re: Remote proofing and Thurber's aunt
- From: Roger Breton <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2004 16:37:53 -0500
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Hmmm, I'll bite.
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I thought that the meaning of remote proofing was that it had to do with
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proofing an image or page being reproduced at a "distant or remote site"
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on a monitor or a printer. And if you had your monitor and printer
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calibrated and profiled so that you would get a close visual match to the
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originator of the image/page.
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I also thought that in any type of remote proofing scenario you could send
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the remote site any type of file such as a tiff, PSD or PDF and use the
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source files embedded profile and the remotes site will use the output
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devices destination profiles and some calculated luck to get a visual match.
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Does this sound simple enough? To me it does, but for others who might not
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understand applications like Photoshop, ID,AI and Acrobat and then be
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focused on ICC profiles with all of the ICC based things you need to know,
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it can be a nightmare.
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Jim Rich
Makes a lot of sense. But it seems to me, from reading Henrik, that the idea
of remote proofing tends to be associated more and more with some PDF
standard like PDF/X3, no? Whathever people do with the PDF once they get it.
Regards,
Roger Breton | Laval, Canada | email@hidden
http://pages.infinit.net/graxx
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