Custom profiles not showing up in Photoshop's Print Dialog
Custom profiles not showing up in Photoshop's Print Dialog
- Subject: Custom profiles not showing up in Photoshop's Print Dialog
- From: Scott Martin <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 10:41:45 -0500
Ever since Photoshop CS6 came out I’ve been struggling with an issue where some custom printer profiles don’t show up in Photoshop’s Print dialog. They show up in every other window that lists profiles and in every other Adobe application print dialog box. Photoshop’s print dialog box filtering has been leaving out some perfectly good printer profiles.
I think I just figured it out - it’s the use of parenthesis (and possibility other funny characters) in the profile name. If I replace a parenthesis with an ‘x' profiles now show up in Photoshop's print dialog box regardless of where they are placed (with the exception of Adobe's 'Recommended' folder, which still seems problematic for other reasons). Darn!
Like a lot of people who make custom profiles, I like to put information like the printer driver media setting in the name of the profile in parenthesis. These are supposed to be safe characters but Photoshop’s print dialog box is filtering them out.
So “Epson 20000 Luster (PLPP260) 5-16.icc” won’t show up but “Epson 20000 Luster PLPP260 5-16.icc” will show up.
However, simply renaming the file name won't help. It's the internal ASCII name that triggers it from being included in Photoshop's Print dialog. So one can either use the ColorSync Utility to rename this internal name, or generate a new profile with parenthesis.
I’ve already pointed this out to Dave P so expect to see this fixed in a future version of PS. But in the meantime one can takeout parenthesis in the ASCII to get them to show up in PS CS6 through PSCC.
Whew, this has been a big problem for how many years now? Can't believe it took us this long to figure it out. I hope this helps!
Scott Martin
www.on-sight.com
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