RE: Profile monitor for many users
RE: Profile monitor for many users
- Subject: RE: Profile monitor for many users
- From: Matthew Finlay <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 17:14:32 +1000
- Thread-topic: Profile monitor for many users
Hi John,
Thanks for your reply. Sorry for any perceived "apple bashing", this was
not my intention. I was merely trying to point out what I believe to be
an issue.
If there is another more correct channel in which I should be directing
my concerns please let me know...
I can now understand why this approach was taken when apple were
developing this architecture for use with their manual color calibration
utility.
Despite the "usefulness" of Apple's "Calibrate" utility to people who
may need a quick fix and do not want to pay for a spectrophotometer or
colorimeter to calibrate their monitor, IMO very few "professionals"
would actually use this software as it is based on visual correction
which is arbitrary.
The current norm for professional users is to calibrate their monitor
using a measuring device such as those described above. With many
currently available monitor profiling software packages it is now also
possible to verify how accurate a display/display profile combination is
through a series of measurements and comparisons. So to answer your
questions:
Q.) "You can have more than one admin user, so what happens if they
disagree on which profile all other users should use?"
A.) It is possible to prove which profile is more suited to the display.
Use the most correct profile.
Q.) "Does the most recent admin profile choice override the previous
choice of another admin user?"
A.) Yes. That way a monitor can be continually re-profiled over time to
adjust for drifts in it's behavior.
Q.) "Won't that come as a surprise to the original admin user?"
A.) Not if the color is being managed correctly.
You may see this as a "request" but to professional users it is really a
"requirement" of any system which allows its users to manage color
across an environment with multiple users.
I guess the real question is one of responsibility though, do you see
this as the responsibility of apple to create this functionality or do
you feel that the software developers who create this kind of product,
will have to try to create their own customized ways to bypass this
issue?
Regards
Matt
-----Original Message-----
From: John Gnaegy [mailto:email@hidden]
Sent: Friday, April 22, 2011 5:48 AM
To: Forum ColorSync
Cc: Matthew Finlay; MARK SEGAL
Subject: Re: Profile monitor for many users
This isn't a flaw, a bug, or broken. I know it's much more dramatic to
portray it that way so if you want to, sure go for it. But that's not
what it is.
It's intentionally designed to allow a user choices over the calibration
of their display for white point and gamma. It's intentionally designed
to allow a user to create multiple profiles reflecting these choices.
What you are describing, letting an admin user disallow all other users
from having that choice, is a feature request. Feature request is not
the same as "it's flawed now". You can have more than one admin user,
so what happens if they disagree on which profile all other users should
use? Does the most recent admin profile choice override the previous
choice of another admin user? Won't that come as a surprise to the
original admin user?
I understand the situation you describe, you want to be able to manage
this choice for multiple users. Ok, that's a request. You don't really
need to go past "request" and into a rant about how flawed it is and how
horrible Apple is. There's plenty of internet for that, but not here.
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