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: Derek Lambert <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 07:04:39 -0400
How can you just copy and use profiles made on macpro to g5 and g4 if they have a different video card?
Profiling monitor ties monitor with video card that was used for profiling and is not valid for all the video cards in the world.
Best Regards,
Derek Lambert
On Sep 11, 2011, at 10:28 PM, Jonathan Taylor <email@hidden> wrote:
> 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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