Re: Custom profiles not showing up in Photoshop's Print Dialog
Re: Custom profiles not showing up in Photoshop's Print Dialog
- Subject: Re: Custom profiles not showing up in Photoshop's Print Dialog
- From: edmund ronald <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 20:49:48 +0200
avoid periods too, if possible. and don't assume upper and lower case are
distinguished.
Edmund
On Monday, May 23, 2016, Ethan Hansen <email@hidden> wrote:
> Scott, thanks for the detective work!
>
> This behavior is not consistent. First, it is confined to OSX only.
> Photoshop on Windows has no such weirdness. On OSX it seems to be
> hit-or-miss. We've received emails from photographers using our profiles
> who were unable to see the profile in Photoshop, but it appears in every
> other app. We have not been able to replicate this behavior on half a dozen
> Macs nor could a number of our clients.
>
> Regarding Brian's comment about profile name compatibility and filename
> length, there are only a handful of characters that must be avoided. In
> Linux/Unix only / and \0 (null) are prohibited. Finder does not allow
> semicolons in file names, but OSX itself is happy. Windows reserves \ / : *
> ? " < > |
>
> No operating system supporting ICC profiles has any restrictions on
> parenthesis.
>
> The ICC internal name field does impose additional restrictions. V2
> profiles support a maximum of 67 characters, including a null terminator
> for the string. The primary description field can't contain Unicode, but
> both Unicode and legacy ScriptCode have their own 67 character fields. V4
> profiles can have anything you want up to 4096 characters. Write a short
> essay in the profile description if you wish.
>
> Cheers,
> Ethan
>
> ----------------
> Ethan Hansen
> Director
> Dry Creek Photo
>
>
>
> > From: Scott Martin
>
> > Dave has explained to me that there’s more going on with the filtering
> > than what you’re describing. You’ll notice that there are lots of
> > profiles missing in print dialog - like working spaces, printer profiles
> > not in the selected printer’s color mode, etc. And they have (probably
> > unintentionally) disallowed profiles with parenthesis in the ASCII name.
>
>
>
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