[Openicc] osX Generic/Default profiles

Kai-Uwe Behrmann ku.b at gmx.de
Wed Jun 13 13:14:27 PDT 2007


Thanks for this reminder.

kind regards
Kai-Uwe Behrmann
--
developing for colour management 
www.behrmann.name + www.oyranos.org + www.cinepaint.org


Am 13.06.07, 13:19 -0400 schrieb Chris Murphy:

> On Jun 8, 2007, at 7:27 AM, Kai-Uwe Behrmann wrote:
> 
> > Took me some time, to realise the osX default profiles are not
> > changeable.
> > 
> > Would it break applications on osX, if Oyranos provides its own defaults
> > and generaly ignores the OS specifics? Thus "Generic CMYK Profile" would
> > be ignored and substituted by ISOcoated.icc in the current internal
> > policy. (Ok, ISOcoated.icc needs an update to v2 .)
> 
> I think something based on FOGRA39 is appropriate. For what it's worth, a
> profile name "ISOcoated" doesn't tell us what data set or specification it's
> based on. And also implies it's built/provided by the ISO which it definitely
> isn't. I've heard they have problems with this naming convention so I think
> something more clear needs to be used. For example Adobe is currently shipping
> one called: "Coated FOGRA27 (ISO 12647-2:2004)"
> 
> 
> Chris Murphy
> Color Remedies (TM)
> New York, NY
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Co-author "Real World Color Management, 2nd Ed"
> 


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