Ben, Thanks for your help. Indeed, this was a job for Bridge as far as profiles were concerned. Believe it or not, I have owned the Adobe suites ever since they were released and I had never found a job for Bridge until today! Thanks for making me shake it out of the dust, for the CS6 version looks great. In my folder, all files were sRGB, so the problem must lie elsewhere. Perhaps a file saved as progressive scan JPG, or some extra metadata that the photo book software chokes with. Or maybe the main layout file got corrupt in one of the random crashes I experienced during that work. "Save for the Web" should clear the extra metadata, but I hate the idea of overwriting those 500 JPG files… Anything more savvy like using Argyll scripts would be beyond my reach, I'm afraid. Regards Paul Ben Goren wrote:
On Dec 11, 2013, at 12:21 PM, Paul Schilliger <pschilliger@sunrise.ch> wrote:
Is there a way to quickly check a batch of JPG images for possible profile mismatch or JPG format and other EXIF compatibility issues? I'm pretty sure that you could set up a custom search in Adobe Bridge or similar applications.
But the approach that I'd take would be to whip up a short batch script with Argyll's cctiff utility to convert anything and everything to the preferred profile. Assuming the image has an embedded profile, you can feed the image itself to cctiff for input, and specify your preferred profile for the output; that way, you don't have to know or care what profile the original is using.
If you're not familiar with it, you can get Argyll for free from here:
Cheers,
b&