Hi Glenn

This is not what I meant, sorry if this was unclear. I'm considering the MD5
of the entire profile both times.

Pierre

-----Message d'origine-----
De : Glenn Randers-Pehrson [mailto:glen...@gmail.com] 
Envoyé : mardi 21 septembre 2010 18:48
À : Pierre Rousseau
Objet : Re: [Lcms-user] Varying ProfileID

If you are comparing the MD5 of an entire profile with the MD5 of only
its description,
the will be different.

Glenn

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Pierre Rousseau
<pierre.rouss...@lumiscaphe.com> wrote:
> Hello Guys
>
>
>
> I'm witnessing a disturbing behavior with the MD5 functions in LCMS 2.0a,
> which I use to recognize identical profiles loaded from disk or embedded.
>
> Basically, loading a profile (say, from a file on disk) and computing its
> MD5 (through cmsMD5computeID(p)) gives me one profile ID.
>
> Loading the same profile, getting its description (through
> cmsGetProfileInfoASCII(p, cmsInfoDescription, "en", "US", buffer, 4096))
and
> then computing its MD5 gives me another profile ID.
>
> Should this be considered a bug or am I missing something ? Seen from the
> outside with poor knowledge of ICC specs, this shouldn't make the two
> profiles different.
>
>
>
> Thanks for some hints on this point, and anyway congrats for this awesome
> piece of software !
>
>
>
> Regards
>
> Pierre Rousseau
>
>
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