Re: Color in Microsoft Word (2008 Mac edition)
Re: Color in Microsoft Word (2008 Mac edition)
- Subject: Re: Color in Microsoft Word (2008 Mac edition)
- From: Marco Ugolini <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:44:29 -0800
- Thread-topic: Color in Microsoft Word (2008 Mac edition)
In a message dated 2/4/10 11:47 PM, Matthew Ward wrote:
> I know how to work in a colour managed workflow
> You will not be able to replicate my results if your MS Office is
> either set up differently or different versions of Word behave
> differently.
That is very vague. Either you have a precise setup procedure to suggest so
that we all experience the same application behavior, or else I don't see
the point of the observation.
> Microsoft are founder members of the icc, they are not clueless,
Yes, I know about Microsoft and the ICC. Tim Grey was with them in charge of
color management until recently (at least I believe that he has left).
> its more that they seem to have certain issues surrounding the words open
> and vendor neutral.
Being a partner in the ICC is moot if the company's applications don't offer
any solid and reliable color-managed workflows.
For example, the monumental innovations in color management that were
supposed to rock the world with the introduction of Vista (yes, remember
Vista...?) appear to have fizzled spectacularly.
> I heard from somewhere that they left the ICC for
> a while but have since returned, I suppose it is possible that some
> versions of Office are not icc aware and some are.
As far as I can tell, even after the news contained in Peter Miles' latest
message, Office is not fully-compliant in the manner that Photoshop and the
whole Creative Suite are. And that is the only level of compliance that I'm
interested in, personally. Anything less is professionally unacceptable.
> under Mac OS 10.5.8
> Word X for Mac (which is getting long in the tooth)
> On my system
> as far as the screen
> the images are presented honoring the icc profile.
The question to answer should be: does the image in Word match the
appearance of the same image when opened in Photoshop? If it doesn't, then
Word is NOT "color-managed".
Yes, Word shows a difference between tagged and untagged images in 12.2.3,
but the appearance of the tagged images still does not correspond to their
appearance inside Photoshop. So, not good enough, I'm afraid.
Word does SOMETHING, but that something shouldn't be called "ICC color
management". It really boils down to that all-important point.
Marco Ugolini
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