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Advanced Color Imaging on the Mac OS

All chapters feature a revised format that includes additional hypertext cross-references for more effective online viewing. This section gives a brief description of specific changes to each chapter.

Preface, "About This Book"

The preface now provides a description of the content and format of the revised advanced color imaging books.

Chapter 1, "Palette Manager"

Contains a new illustration, "The colors of the default color tables."

Chapter 2, "Color Picker Manager"

Illustrations are now in color.

Correction made to Figure 2-4, "A movable modal application-owned dialog box."

Chapter 3, "Introduction to the ColorSync Manager"

Contains a new section on named color spaces.

Introduces profile identifiers.

Identifies the International Color Consortium Web site (http://www.color.org/).

Contains new figure "L*a*b* color space."

Corrections made to Figure 3-4, "Additive colors expressed in RGB and subtractive colors expressed in CMYK."

For additional links to changed material in this chapter, see the section "ColorSync 2.1 Changes" in this document.

Chapter 4, "Developing ColorSync-Supportive Applications"

Among other changes, contains new or revised sample code for determining if the ColorSync Manager is available, providing procedure access to a profile, and searching a list or a folder for profiles that match a profile identifier.

For links to changed material in this chapter, see the section "ColorSync 2.1 Changes" in this document.

Chapter 5, "Developing Color Management Modules"

Describes the new ColorSync Manager request codes for dealing with named color spaces.

The section "Supplying Named Color Space Information" describes how your CMM might respond to named color space request codes.

Chapter 6, "Developing ColorSync-Supportive Device Drivers"

No significant content changes.

Chapter 7, "Color Manager"

The section "Building Inverse Tables" contains revised information on how to use the CTabChanged function. (See also the "Color QuickDraw" chapter in Inside Macintosh: Imaging With QuickDraw.)

Appendix A: "ColorSync Manager Backward Compatibility"

Updated for most recent ColorSync profile header format.

The section "Converting a 2.x Profile to the 1.0 Format" describes how to perform such a conversion and the limitations involved.


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