Scott, thanks for the detective work!
You’re welcome!
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.
I think what I’m talking about is consistent on OSX. There are other things that aren’t consistent but let’s not get this issue mixed up with those!
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.
Were they available in other dialog boxes in Photoshop? I bet they were - just not the Print dialog!
We have not been able to replicate this behavior on half a dozen Macs nor could a number of our clients.
Well if you’re talking about the parenthesis problem I’m talking about, you can replicate it pretty easily. Try it out!
No operating system supporting ICC profiles has any restrictions on parenthesis.
Correct, but Photoshop CS6 and newer does have this restriction. Just in the Print dialog.
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.
I get it. But if the ASCII name contains a parenthesis it won’t show up in the Print dialog box. Scott Martin www.on-sight.com <http://www.on-sight.com/>