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Managing Color With ColorSync


Display Matching

When your application displays an image that contains one or more embedded profiles, it can use ColorSync to make sure the user experiences consistent color from one display to another. If a color cannot be reproduced exactly on a particular destination device, the ColorSync Manager can map the color to a similar color that is in the color gamut of the device.

Your application or driver can allow a user to embed or tag color-matching information and it should be able to use the ColorSync Manager to display a tagged picture. Most importantly, your application or driver must preserve picture comments in documents and allow the information to be passed on to the destination device.


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