With ColorSync ICC Profiles, there are two separate profile names. The obvious name is the name of the profile file. This is the name that one can easily view and edit in the Finder. The other name is the name in the profile. This name can be longer and more descriptive than the file name which is limited by the file system to 31 characters on the Mac (or 8 characters on the DOS).
Many applications correctly use the more descriptive internal profile name when building a popup menu or scrollable list of profiles to the user. The ColorSync Photoshop Plug-ins are a good example of this. The only problem with this approach is that, if the user renames a profile file in the Finder, the internal profile name is not changed. A popup menu or scrollable list of profiles in an application is similarly unaffected.
What does ProfileRenamer do to solve this?
ProfileRenamer is a simple drag-and-drop application which can help you make sure that the name of the profile file is the same as the name in the profile. To use this application, first rename the file name of the profile as desired. Then drag the ColorSync Profile (or a folder containing several profiles) onto this application and it make the internal profile name the same as the profile's file name.
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