Acrobat 10/11 Mac OS 10.8 color management break/fix
Hey list - Just posting an FYI… we just moved to Mountain Lion and discovered the apparently-well-documented-since-about-a-year-and-a-half-ago break between the OS and Acrobat 10/11 where PDFs display unsaturated (like an apply sRGB is being made). I read on a blog post about a little utility called ColorFaker so downloaded and installed and it totally solved the issue. I've no idea when this little gem was released but regardless… it's nice to know someone can move faster than others… https://github.com/iccir/ColorFaker Cheers_thom --- thom schroeder | marketing premedia | recreational equipment, inc.
On Nov 19, 2013, at 12:58 PM, Thom Schroeder <tschroe@rei.com> wrote:
Hey list -
Just posting an FYI… we just moved to Mountain Lion and discovered the apparently-well-documented-since-about-a-year-and-a-half-ago break between the OS and Acrobat 10/11 where PDFs display unsaturated (like an apply sRGB is being made). I read on a blog post about a little utility called ColorFaker so downloaded and installed and it totally solved the issue. I've no idea when this little gem was released but regardless… it's nice to know someone can move faster than others…
Interesting but that little utility scares the hell out of me. It seems like it should work but should only really be used in skilled hands and even then…. Having an sRGB-named profile running around (and possibly embedded in documents) that is *not* actually sRGB seems very very risky. If this is all about color meter utilities working properly then it seems they need the bug fix rather than buggering the standard profiles in 10.8 yikes! Steve
Big thread about this here. http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1059137?tstart=30 I tried color faker for a while but I was constantly forgetting to change it back when doing regular work that might involve a convert to sRGB.. So, if you're converting to sRGB you need to be very careful. Just wasn't worth the trouble as I didn't really need to be color proofing in Acrobat anyhow. Doyle On Nov 19, 2013, at 6:11 PM, Steve Upton <upton@chromix.com> wrote:
On Nov 19, 2013, at 12:58 PM, Thom Schroeder <tschroe@rei.com> wrote:
Hey list -
Just posting an FYI… we just moved to Mountain Lion and discovered the apparently-well-documented-since-about-a-year-and-a-half-ago break between the OS and Acrobat 10/11 where PDFs display unsaturated (like an apply sRGB is being made). I read on a blog post about a little utility called ColorFaker so downloaded and installed and it totally solved the issue. I've no idea when this little gem was released but regardless… it's nice to know someone can move faster than others…
Interesting but that little utility scares the hell out of me.
It seems like it should work but should only really be used in skilled hands and even then….
Having an sRGB-named profile running around (and possibly embedded in documents) that is *not* actually sRGB seems very very risky.
If this is all about color meter utilities working properly then it seems they need the bug fix rather than buggering the standard profiles in 10.8
yikes!
Steve
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