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- From: paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
- Subject: Re: Apple Introduces ColorSync color matching software
- Message-ID: <1372@taniwha.UUCP>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 17:41:50 GMT
- References: <1ins7pINNn4s@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1993Jan10.103259.460@sics.se>
- Organization: Taniwha Systems Design
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- In article <1993Jan10.103259.460@sics.se> ollef@sics.se (Olle Furberg) writes:
- >In <1ins7pINNn4s@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> bk146@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Todd Sternisha) writes:
- >
- >If ColorSync is just consisting of software, how is it able to match different
- >monitors and different output devices with each other?
-
- Monitor/card vendors provide profiles for their devices - or they make them on
- the fly from a calibration accessory.
-
- >So have do we intepret this "industry standard" provided by Apple?
- >
- >Is there anyone out there who knows what ColorSync is?
-
- More generally CS uses the QuickTime component manager to allow a user to
- install different color matching methods - they ship you their standard one
- but allow you to purchase one from a different vendor which might produce
- a better quality of output or a faster match.
-
- Think of CS as being two things:
-
- - an API for programmers to program to use color matching methods
-
- - a particular color matching method which is provided as default
-
- I think that the first one is the most important.
-
- So if another "industry standard" become the standard for matching then you
- will just buy a component from that vendor and drop it in your system folder.
-
-
- Paul Campbell
- SuperMac
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