Re: Converting current profiles for old OS versions
Re: Converting current profiles for old OS versions
- Subject: Re: Converting current profiles for old OS versions
- From: Karl Koch <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 09:44:51 +0200
Hi Jonathan,
let me first answer a question you didn´t ask:
Trident 4 is the original Howtek scanner software and it wasn´t bad at it´s time, but it has nothing to do with color management. So, a monitor profile wouldn´t help a lot.
If you want an up-to-date scanner software, I´d recommend SoverFast from LaserSoft. They wrote a scanner driver for the Howtek scanners for me – back then. It should stoll be available.
If you want to use your monitor profiles on an old system, make sure, they are not v4. Additionally I would make them matrix-based profiles just to be on the safe side.
I am not sure which OS version tolerates which type of profile, but if it uses profiles at all, then a v2 matrix-based profile is the one you would want.
BTW, that´s also the type you will have to use on a Windows system before 7.
Best regards,
Karl Koch
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Am 12.09.2011 um 04:28 schrieb Jonathan Taylor:
> Hi all,
>
> [Long story version that can be skipped]
> I'm a photographer who runs a bunch of old film scanners (with accompanying
> Macs), but I do all my real work on a calibrated wide-gamut LED Lacie 724
> display and Mac Pro running 10.6.7. With Vuescan I can run most of my
> scanners under Leopard on a G4 and a G5. I have a KVM that lets me share the
> display between the Mac Pro and my G5 and G4, and so when I update my
> calibration I can just copy the new profile from the Mac Pro to the G5 and
> G4.
>
> The problem is that I'm bringing a Howtek 4500 drum scanner into my workflow
> and apparently the best software may be the Trident 4 package that only runs
> under MacOS 9. Although I think color management under OS9 is pretty decent
> it won't recognize my monitor profile that comes from 10.6.7, so...
>
> ***[To cut to the chase, here's the question]***
> Can I-- and how do I-- convert a monitor profile created by Lacie's Blue Eye
> Pro software (v1.0.16) under 10.6.8 to a profile format that OS9 will
> recognize?
>
> A more broadly related question, what are the relevant Colorsync and ICC
> profile versions associated with different OS releases? I just checked the
> wikipedia colorsync page and was disappointed. For instance I've also found
> that Tiger doesn't recognized my monitor profile. It couldn't possibly be
> using the same Colorsync profile version as OS 9.2.2-- or is it? It would be
> interesting to see a table for Mac, Windows, and any other relevant color
> manged operating systems.
>
> jt
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