Re: ColorsyncScripting
Re: ColorsyncScripting
- Subject: Re: ColorsyncScripting
- From: Klaus Karcher <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:11:43 +0200
Martin Orpen wrote:
You've dropped "match link" and there is no equivalent in SIPS or Image
Events. Working around "proof" is no problem but now there is no native
capability in the OS that I can see to handle device link conversions.
It's hard to believe that there's no longer a way to use device links
with Applescript, the more so as even the last RIP and image processing
software vendors got the hang of their amenities finally.
Are you sure that sips or Image Events didn't learn to deal with device
links in OS 10.6? (In OS 10.5 "sips -m devicelink.icc ..." returns an
error and Image Events's "match image myImage to destination profile
myDeviceLink" does nothing -- it does not even return an error )-:
As a workaround, you can bundle Argyll's "cctiff" (as long as you are
not dependent on ICC v4 profiles) or LittleCMS's "icctrans" with your
script and call them with "do shell script".
ColorSync scripting could have been expanded as a Scripting Addition --
not dropped. it would have been simple to incorporate useful extras like
the Calculator features of the ColorSync Utility.
But a glance at the ColorSync Manager Reference shows a scary amount of
red ink -- more than half of the features have been deprecated:
<file:///Developer/Documentation/DocSets/com.apple.ADC_Reference_Library.CoreReference.docset/Contents/Resources/Documents/documentation/GraphicsImaging/Reference/ColorSync_Manager/index.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP30000259>
Yes, and the last update was in 2005. There are still no documented
workarounds or replacements for many of the deprecated features and some
of the non-deprecated functions return faulty results -- see
<http://lists.apple.com/archives/Colorsync-dev/2008/Dec/msg00002.html>
I'm only a casual programmer and I have not even installed Snow Leopard,
so I can't really contribute much. However, I think it's sad to see what
has become of the former pioneer or colormanagement.
Klaus Karcher
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