RE: Illustrator Placed Content
RE: Illustrator Placed Content
- Subject: RE: Illustrator Placed Content
- From: Roger Breton <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 21:42:08 -0500
Good evening Bill,
You are right that Illustrator will gladly host different images with
different embedded ICC profiles, as long as they're linked. I'm saddened to
hear that CS4's XMP used to carry linked file's embedded ICC profile and
this is lost in CS5's XMP :(
I was under the impression that embedding the image offered the choice
between retaining the embedded profile or converting to the document RGB
space. Alas! The first option actually converts the image to the document
RGB space, which is good. But the second option brutally strips the profile
away, and the image all of a sudden inherits the document RGB space. Not so
good.
You are right that, at any rate, embedding images in an Illustrator document
is wrong, as far as color management is concerned. Unless the content of the
images is not important.
Best / Roger
-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Whitfield [mailto:email@hidden]
Sent: March-08-11 5:22 PM
To: email@hidden
Cc: Roger Breton
Subject: Re: Illustrator Placed Content
Greetings Roger,
Just checked a copy of Illustrator CS5 and Adobe has changed the Advanced
Tab from CS4 to not include profile data - RATS!!!. I also discovered, as
you did, that embedding an image will give you a warning which includes the
color space of the image you want to embed.
You can have images in different color spaces if you do not embed them. You
can confirm this by placing images with different color spaces; saving as a
PDF file with Include Profiles; check via preflight in Acrobat and see that
each image has retained its tagged profile. Embedding them changes their
color space to that of the Illustrator document. For me another good reason
not to embed images in Illustrator.
-Bill-
> Message: 6
> Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 07:41:19 -0500
> From: Roger Breton <email@hidden>
> Subject: RE: Adobe Illustrator placed content
> To: 'colorsync-users List' <email@hidden>
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> I found an indirect way to discover what the embedded profile is.
> Short and sweet.
> Just select embed the image, once it is placed, and Illustrator will
> once again bring the profile mismatch dialog.
> Then it is a matter of reading...
>
> I'm still not clear on using XMP to find out what the embedded profile is.
>
> Best / Roger
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