[Openicc] inner versus outer ICC profile names

Lars Borg borg at adobe.com
Thu Jan 31 09:47:32 PST 2008


File names are sometimes cryptically short and useless to identify 
all attributes of the profile, such as printer, printer mode, paper 
stock. There are still 8.3 names out there.

Lars

At 6:45 AM +0100 1/31/08, Kai-Uwe Behrmann wrote:
>Am 30.01.08, 12:16 -0800 schrieb Lars Borg:
>>  In the more general case, you have to deal with embedded profiles 
>>with no file
>>  name.
>
>>  Thus, for consistency use primarilly the internal names.
>
>Well, I must have overseen this case in my argumentation.
>
>As we will have many applications using one name to show the profile, the
>internal one, the only way I see is to keep both names the same.
>
>Graeme and Hal,
>what does you think about a default behaviour of your profilers to write
>the desc description tag in default mode as the file name? Ideally a
>divergine desc name would be a exotic thing.
>
>My intention for checking profiles would be to declare divergine
>inner/outer names as faulty. Oyranos will offer an option to move the file
>name to the inner description tag on repairing faulty profiles.
>
>
>kind regards
>Kai-Uwe Behrmann
>--
>developing for colour management
>www.behrmann.name + www.oyranos.org



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