Remote proofing and Thurber's aunt
Remote proofing and Thurber's aunt
- Subject: Remote proofing and Thurber's aunt
- From: Henrik Holmegaard <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2004 10:45:29 +0100
Every time I've tried to build a thread on remote proofing for PDF/X-3
with the (misnamed) OutputIntent construct, the thread has fallen flat
on its face.
Part of the reason is good old commercial competion. Graeme did not
like the discussion last year and stamped it out. OK, fine.
Part of the reason is good old metaphysical confusion. This is a good
deal more difficult to tackle, because the confusion controls the minds
of the user community.
It is well-known in the history of science that analogies, when
uncontrolled by conceptual structures, effortlessly become realities.
This may happen in two directions,
(1) an everyday analogy, built into our language, becomes as it were a
reality in itself which science tries to approach as if it were an
experiential problem,
(1a) this List has often fallen prey to the analogy of the mind as a
closed camera and of color as a trapped internal film which cannot be
inter-subjectively demonstrated,
(2) an analogy from science wanders into popular science and from
popular science into everyday language where it is approached as an
experience problem,
(2a) my all time favourite is Thurber's aunt who, having heard of
electrical current, took care to place plugs in empty sockets to stop
the current from leaking onto the floor.
Another List has the problem that it cannot understand the concept of
interpolation. The question is, How could one guarantee the result of a
remote system, one that you are not going to see or touch, by just
sending an ICC profile?
Well, one isn't just sending a loose ICC profile. One is in fact
embedding the CMYK Working Space from InDesign 3 as OutputIntent (more
on that term later). And in Adobe application software a Working Space
must by definition be a bidirectional ICC profile.
How many feel that they cannot understand the basics of interpolation,
what is it about interpolation that mystifies, and how can an
explanation by the developer and standards side help dispel the
mystification?
As long as the puzzlement remains, it feeds the market for proprietary
proofing solutions, which again feeds the market for the type of
traditional workflows where one proof is shown to the print buyer
before and another after the print run, where proofing is overcharged,
and where the image designer and the page designer are shortchanged
time and again. Only thing is that we have the spectrophotometers and
the PDF-enabled ICC workflows, so let's see how this one works out.
Thanks,
Henrik
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