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Profile Manager
Use Profile Manager to organize the profiles you have installed on your system. Profile Manager has been designed to have a multi-paned interface that clearly shows all profiles installed on your system and also allows them to be selected by location, profile type, color space and other attributes. Those users familiar with Apple Computer’s iTunes software should find the interface familiar. Profiles can be enabled or disabled individually or in sets.
To Open the Profile Manager:
- Choose “System:Profile Manager” or
- Type command-M or
- Click the Profile Manager button on the menu bar.
Profile Manager will open and begin scanning your operating system for ICC profiles. PM is multi-threaded and performs its work in the background so you can do other things while it works, including closing the window. Profile Manager scans the following locations for profiles:
Windows: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\SPOOL\DRIVERS\COLOR
OS 9 System Folder: ColorSync Profiles: System Folder: Application Support: Adobe: Color: Profiles
OS X / ~/ Library/ ColorSync/ Profiles/ (your user folder) / Library/ ColorSync/ Profiles/ (system-wide multi-user access) / System/ Library/ ColorSync/ Profiles/ (system-only profiles)
- If you have been disabling profiles by locating them elsewhere on your hard disk we suggest re-enabling them by placing them in the “ColorSync Profiles” (OS 9) or the “/Library/ ColorSync/ Profiles/ “ (OS X) folder. This will make them available to all applications and users on your system and allow Profile Manager to handle them from now on.
Once Profile Manager has finished scanning for profiles, it will display the following window:
Display of Profile Information
- Profile Manager performs a quick check to determine file type, internal name, profile type and space and also checks for name parity (the same name internally as externally). By default, the name parity check is disabled but can be enabled in Preferences.
- Click on an item in the Locations list to select all installed profiles or those located only in a selected location.
- Click on an item in the Types list to select profiles by their type.
- Click on an item in the Color Spaces list to select profiles by their color space.
- Right click on a profile to bring up more options: Graph in 2D, 3D,
Through these three lists you can quickly choose profiles that fit your search requirements. The relevant profiles appear in the lower listbox for your inspection.
The Icons
Each profile is displayed with an icon as illustrated below:
Profile icon - It has been recognized as a valid profile - this is a preliminary check only. Full Color Medic inspection is required to determine if the profile is fully valid and without errors.
Caution – The profile failed the name parity test. Its internal name is different than the file name.
Stop sign - This file is not a recognizable profile.
- Listing Options
- Click on a profile to get a quick summary of profile information at the bottom of the window including the internal and external (file) names.
- Click the disclosure triangle to grow the window and expose more profile information including profile size, modification date, and location.
- Click on a column header to sort the list by the contents of that column.
- Profiles can be displayed by internal or external name by selecting “External Name” or “Internal Name”. The current selection with be underlined.
- Disabled profiles can be hidden by unchecking "Show Disabled Profiles". Disabling a profile when "Show Disabled Profiles" is unchecked will make
the profile "poof" disappear. A little surprising at first but cool overall.
- Enabling & Disabling Profiles
- Check or uncheck the box to the left of the profile to enable or disable it. Profiles that cannot be disabled due to their location or type will appear without a checkbox. This includes ColorSync default profiles (such as the Generic profiles) and profiles located in folder to which the user does not have sufficient privileges for copying and deleting files. Disabling a profile moves it into a folder near the original location with “(Disabled)” added to the folders name. If you have organized your profiles in subfolders, the subfolder structure will be maintained as the profile is disabled and re-enabled.
- Sets
Use sets to enable or disable profiles in groups
- This function acts like sets in the Mac OS 9 Extension Manager but a few more options including "no sets"
- When the current profiles do not match the current set, Profile Manager prompted to impose the set, do nothing, or update the set. If nothing or update
is chosen then new additions are marked in BOLD. Empty folders may prompt the user to change a set yet not be displayed when "Show in folders" is not selected.
- A diamond will appear next to the sets popup menu showing the set has been altered and the change has not been saved.
- To Open a Profile
- Double-click a profile in the list
- Select a profile and choose “Profile:Open with Profile Inspector”
- Select a profile and press command-I (Mac) or control-I (Windows)
The profile will open in the Profile Inspector
- To Rename a Profile
- Select “Profile:Rename Profile...” and the Renamer will open for renaming.
- To Restructure / Rewrite a Profile
- Select “Profile:Restructure Profile"
This will read in the profile and write it back out to disk – see Restructure Profile above for more information.
- Drag profiles out of the Profile Manager list to
- The menu bar - to open it
- Into an open graph or a graph button on the menu bar to graph it, or add it to a graph.
- Onto the Profile Linker button on the menu bar or into the Profile Linker window to add it to a device link profile.
- Onto an open Image Inspector window to embed the profile in an image.
Profile Inspector
Profile Inspector opens all ICC-compliant profiles and displays their contents graphically as well as allowing browsing of header and tag table information. Using the same technology as the Profile Medic, Profile Inspector performs a comprehensive 16-point integrity check on the profile’s structure and internal information. Any errors or warnings are summarized in a list and can be repaired with Profile Medic.
To Open Profiles into the Profile Inspector
- Choose “File:Open” and select a profile.
- Double click a profile in PM
- Drag a profile onto the menu bar
- Drag and drop them onto the ColorThink application icon in the Finder
The Profile Inspector Bar
Renamer – Click to open the Renamer and change the internal or external names.
Install – Click to move the profile into the “ColorSync Profiles” folder. This is disabled if the profile is already installed.
Profile Medic – Click to run Profile Medic on the profile and step through the repair process. This is the same process as running Profile Medic from the main menu bar except fixes are performed only on the open profile. This is disabled if no warnings or errors are found in the profile.
Profile Linker – Click to open a new PL window and add the profile as the source profile. Option-clicking this button will add the profile as the destination instead.
2D Graphing – Click to graph profile in 2D in the Grapher. To add profile to an existing graph, drag profile icon onto open graph window.
3D Graphing – Click to graph profile in 3D in the Grapher. To add profile to an existing graph, drag profile icon onto open graph window.
- The Profile Inspector window is composed of several “Tabs”
Overview Tab
- ColorSync Check
This indicator displays whether or not ColorSync’s validation procedure found the profile to be sound. ColorSync uses different validation checks for profiles than the Profile Inspector, this information is shown to confirm that ColorSync likes it too.
- Arrows
The arrows summarize the type of profile (matrix vs. look up table – LUT, vs. NCP), the accuracy (8 or 16 bit), the grid size of a LUT-based profile, and the number of custom colors in a Named Color Profile (NCP).
- The Color Tabs
The color tabs displayed in the overview depict: