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Cross-platform color

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Type: Term
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Cross platform color management refers to managing color between different operating systems. Getting your Mac and Wintel monitors to match and your printed output to be the same is a difficult task. Luckly, several things are in place to help, and others are on their way.

- ICC Profiles - are platform-independent by definition. That means you can easily move them from machine to machine.
- Adobe Photoshop 5.x is available on both platforms and implements color management (mostly) the same way on both.

Some things working against you are:

- The gamma settings can be quite different between the Mac and PC. Photoshop can compensate for this when designing, but when displaying on different systems you can have problems.
- Windows does not implement color management on nearly the same scale, nor do as many content creation programs support ICC color management.

See Also

Term: MacOS
Term: UNIX
Term: Windows 98
Term: Windows NT
Term: ICC International Color Consortium
Term: Gamma

ColorSync Error/Response Code List

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Type: TechTip
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noerr0No error (not specific to ColorSync)
cmProfileError-170There is something wrong with the content of the profile
cmMethodError-171An error occurred during the CMM arbitration process that determines the CMM to use
cmMethodNotFound-175CMM not present
cmProfileNotFound-176Responder error
cmprofilesldentical-177Profiles are the same
cmCantConcatenateError-178Profiles can't be concatenated
cmCantXYZ-179CMM does not handle XYZ color space
cmCantDeleteProfile-180Responder error
cmUnsupportedDataType-181Responder error
cmNoCurrentProfile-182Responder error
cmE]ementTagNotFound-4200The tag you specified is not in the specified profile
cmIndexRangeErr-4201Tag index out of range
cmcantDeleleElement-4202Can't delete the specified profile element
cmFatalProfileErr-4203Returned from File Manager while updating a profile file in response to CMUpdateProfile; profile content may be corrupted
cmInvalidProfile-4204Profile reference is invalid or refers to an inappropriate profile
cmInvalidProfileLocation-4205Operation not supported for this profile location
cmInvalidSearch-4206Bad searrh handle
cmSearchError-4207Internal error occurred during profile search
cmErrIncompatibleProfile-4208Unspecified profile error
cmlnvalidColorSpace-4209Profile color space does not match bitmap type
cmInvalidSrcMap-4210Source pixel map or bitrnap was invalid
cmInvalidDstMap-4211Destination pix/bit map was invalid
cmNoGDevicesError-4212Begin matching or end matching-no graphics devices available
cmlnvalidProfileComment-4213Bad profile comment during drawpicture
cmRangeoverFlow-4214One or more output color value overflows in color conversion; all input color values will be converted and the overflow will be clipped

See Also

Utility: ColorSync

CHROMiX CCT Updates

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(Feb 12, 2001) - CHROMiX ColorThink has been updated to version 1.1

Please go to the ColorThink Product Page for more information and instructions on upgrading.

ColorThink 1.1 is a free upgrade for all 1.0 users.

Thank you for buying ColorThink!