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Managing Color With ColorSync


Programming Interface

The ColorSync Manager application programming interface (API) allows your application or device driver to handle such tasks as color matching, color conversion, profile management, and profile searching. You can access and read individual tagged elements within a profile, embed profiles in documents, modify profiles, and transform images through various CMMs to perform color matching and profile data transfer from one format to another.

The ColorSync API is summarized in Summary of the ColorSync Manager . You can find detailed information about individual functions, constants, and data types in ColorSync Reference for Applications and Drivers . For code samples that show how to use the ColorSync API, see Developing ColorSync-Supportive Applications . For information on the ColorSync Manager header files, see ColorSync Header Files .

The ColorSync Manager is implemented as a shared library on PowerPC-based computers. For a listing of the shared library version number for each released version of the ColorSync Manager, along with corresponding Gestalt selector codes, see Gestalt, Shared Library, and CMM Version Information .


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