Interpretation of raster data

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Tue Mar 29 04:47:17 PST 2005


Christian Walther wrote:
> Michael Sweet wrote:
> 
>> Normally, the _W and _RGB colorspaces are sRGB-based, however that 
>> varies depending on the platform and configuration.
>> 
>> You can set the color profile to use on MacOS X with the 
>> cupsICCProfile attribute - look on the Apple developer site for the
>> technote.
> 
> 
> Thanks, that works. So I'm now specifying an sRGB profile on Mac OS X
> and hope that interpreting the data using the sRGB transfer function
> will produce good results everywhere.
> 
> Unfortunately the profile specification is only picked up for
> printers created in the Printer Setup Utility, not when creating them
> through the web interface or on the command line (which I must do
> because Printer Setup Utility refuses to set the device URI correctly
> for serial printers). The
> /System/Library/Printers/Libraries/csregprinter tool that seems
> responsible for it is undocumented, and I'm not sure how reliable a
> solution based on reverse engineering it would be. Oh well, looks
> like installation is going to be a two-step process for the user:
> create the printer in Printer Setup Utility and then use some
> AppleScript that invokes lpadmin to configure it properly.

Repost this to the printing at lists.apple.com list - this sounds like
a bug in OSX, as I was under the impression that OSX just looks for
the attribute...

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