Elle, the problem is *nix is not a registered signature and therefore you would produce non-conformant profiles if using that. The icc profile dump app issues a warning, and I know about more than one company using that tool to validate profiles. Otherwise, a CMM should *not* make any distinction from this fieldso, its usage is purely testimonial.
Actually lcms uses it as a watermark and only mac and windows are supported. It is like the creation date: is supposed to be put there by the system and nobody should use it. If you have any use case other than purely cosmetic I would gladly add it, but in any case we need to get *nix signature registered first. Regards Marti Quoting Elle Stone <ellest...@ninedegreesbelow.com>: > On 01/24/2014 09:16 AM, Richard Hughes wrote: >> On 24 January 2014 14:17, Elle Stone <ellest...@ninedegreesbelow.com> wrote: >>> It might be nice to have the ability to choose the platform >>> directly because >>> profile makers might want to make a set of profiles for different platforms >>> all from the same computer. >> >> IIRC, I thought the ICC advised against checking the platform like >> this. Profiles for OSX are supposed to work just as well with Windows, >> and all that. >> >> Richard > > I've never encountered a case where the platform actually mattered. > > Wanting to see *nix as the platform is strictly a personal preference. > I've never liked the idea that something as necessary to color > management as an ICC profile could be considered copyrighted and such, > and so I don't use proprietary profiles. It would be nice if the > platforms of floss profiles weren't proprietary platforms. > > Of course there are non-floss unices, but there are floss unices, too. > > Elle > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. > Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For > Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. > Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Lcms-user mailing list > Lcms-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lcms-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Lcms-user mailing list Lcms-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lcms-user
