Re: Profile Names (and output condition tag)
Re: Profile Names (and output condition tag)
- Subject: Re: Profile Names (and output condition tag)
- From: Klaus Karcher <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2007 04:43:35 +0100
Peter Constable wrote:
The new profile, "Coated FOGRA 27 (ISO 12647-2:2004)" is the same profile as
"Europe ISO Coated FOGRA 27" with the exception of the file name and
internal description.
The original name left the impression that our profile was sanctioned by
ISO, which is not the case.
I wonder if anyone in Europe would ever expects sanction from DIN
(Germany's National Institute for Standardizations) to sell DIN A4 paper.
It must be something American, maybe a different concept of the term
"responsibility"? (In almost the same manner we don't think it's
necessary to write "keep away from babies" on plastic bags ;-)
I suggested "Adobe ISO Coated" a few days ago (and "Adobe ISO Coated v2"
for a FOGRA39 based Profile). I think that's a much more straightforward
concept for similarities and differences between profiles like e.g.
"Adobe ISO Coated" and "ECI ISO Coated": two Profiles from two vendors
for one and the same standardized printing condition. ISO is responsible
for the specification of the printing condition they refer to, and the
vendors are responsible for the gamut mapping, black composition and
accuracy of their profile.
I think it's *badly* needed to refer to the data set (output condition
identifier) specified in the ICC registry (e.g. "FOGRA27" or "FOGRA39")
-- but not as part of the name (or description): This information needs
it's *own tag* and must be machine-readable to be of use!
Distiller (at least v.7) can't create correct PDF/X-3 files with
Profiles other than those "sanctioned by Adobe" <g>. The correct output
condition identifier e.g. "FOGRA27" is only set for Adobes profiles and
the assignment is hard coded somewhere deep in the Distiller Library --
If you want to use any other Profile, Distiller sets the output
condition identifier just to "Custom".
I mentioned this "missing link" between output intents and ICC Profiles
some one and a half year ago in the ECI mailing list. Maybe with FOGRA39
and CS3 one should jump at the chance and fix it.
Hey, Adobe, ECI, ...: how about taking a look at
http://www.color.org/signatures2.html ;-)
Regards,
Klaus Karcher
THIS MESSAGE WAS WRITTEN IN GERMAN ENGLISH -- THAT'S EVEN WORSE THAN
BRITISH ENGLISH ;-)
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