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ColorSync Manager
 
The ColorSync Manager provides an industry-standard, cross-platform color management system that includes services for color matching, color conversion, and gamut checking. Your application or device driver can use ColorSync to provide fast, accurate, and consistent color calibration, proofing, and reproduction.


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develop article: Print Hints: Synching Up with ColorSync 2.0

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    Inside Macintosh Documents
Technote 1185: New ColorSync 3.0 API's Starting with ColorSync 3.0, users can use the ColorSync control panel to specify preferences for system-wide profiles for input, output, display, and proof devices, as well as to set default document profiles for RGB, CMYK, Gray, and Lab color spaces. Users can change these settings individually or by changing to a new workflow, which specifies device profiles, document profiles, and preferred CMM. This technote describes the functions and constants applications can use to get and set the control panel settings.
   
  Technote 1160: What's New With ColorSync 2.6 provides a technical overview for ColorSync version 2.6. The new features added for version 2.6 include a Windows API, new AppleScript capability and sample scripts, support for JPEG and GIF file formats for Internet compatibility, grayspace profile for grayscale workflows, improved monitor calibration, updated Photoshop plug-ins that support 16-bit images, and more.

  Managing Color With ColorSync
This document describes ColorSync through version 2.5.1. It includes conceptual material, sample code, and a complete API reference. New and enhanced features in ColorSync 2.5 include scripting support, monitor calibration, multiprocessor support, sixteen-bit channel support, and optimized profile searching.

What’s New in ColorSync 2.5
This online document describes the new and enhanced features in ColorSync version 2.5. These features are documented more fully in Managing Color With ColorSync.


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