Leonard, At the Nov ICC meeting we discussed this issue and agreed to continue working on it. So -- in the meantime -- let's understand that this is a issue pending a solution, rather than giving the impression that there is no solution. Best regards, Ann McCarthy Imaging Systems R&D Lexmark International, Inc. <table width=100%> <tr valign=top> <td width=40%>Leonard Rosenthol <leonardr@pdfsages.com> Sent by: openicc-bounces+almccart=lexmark.com@lists.freedesktop.org 01/18/2011 01:49 PM <td width=59%> <table width=100%> <tr valign=top> <td> <div align=right>To</div> <td>homann@colormanagement.de <tr valign=top> <td> <div align=right>cc</div> <td>OpenICC Liste <openicc@lists.freedesktop.org> <tr valign=top> <td> <div align=right>Subject</div> <td>Re: [Openicc] Assigning icc profiles to driver settings</table> <table> <tr valign=top> <td> <td></table> </table> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Jan-Peter Homann <<a href=mailto:homann@colormanagement.de>homann@colormanagement.de</a>> wrote: 1) PPD colour keywords: The PPD for a given printer must be able, to describe all color relevant driver settings with all parameters (incl. low level driver settings if necessary) an ICC profile will be assigned to a proper parametrized PPD and the PPD will completely set up the color options in the printer driver. I (and other folks at Adobe) support thsi model.  In fact, we've been trying to convince various printer vendors to do this for their PPDs for YEARS.  However, all of the major vendors are unwilling to do so for various business and/or technical reasons.  So any provided PPDs would need to be MODIFIED versions of the originals...   2) Driver settings implemented as metadata-information into the ICC-profile Like with the PPD-workflow, all color relebant printer driver settings are stored as metadata into the ICC-profile. Modification of ICC profiles is a BAD IDEA!   As noted elsewhere in the thread, it breaks the ID and prevent the use of the profiles in other workflows where comparison of profiles is important.  In addition, many/most of the standard profiles do NOT support modification as part of their license.  (discussions of OSS licensing for profiles to /dev/null please).   Leonard <tt>_______________________________________________ openicc mailing list openicc@lists.freedesktop.org </tt><a href=http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openicc><tt>http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openicc</tt></a>