Datacolor User to User Support Group.

>Working in PrintFixPro v2.2 I have been trying to tidy up ands
>reorganise my misnamed profiles using the View Profiles feature.
>(Brill) But, after shutting down PFP and rebooting my machine (Win XP)
>the renamed profiles don't show up in the Photoshop CS2 profiling
>choices. Yet, when I create a new profile in PFP and restart CS2 the
>new profiles appear OK in the PFP view profiles and in CS2.
>
>Can anyone offer a solution?
>

Profiles have both an external (file) name and an internal name.

When PFP (and other 3rd party profiling software) creates a profile,
it uses the same name inside the profile and also as the file name.

Photoshop and other color managed applications don't show the FILE
name in their popups; they use the INTERNAL name.

If you rename the file at the OS level (which is what you're describing),
this doesn't affect the names of the profiles that are shown in Photoshop's
popups because those are still the INTERNAL names inside the profiles
themselves, which you haven't changed.

So: how can you -truly- change the name of a profile (both external,
and internal)?

If you're on a Mac using OSX, Apple's ColorSync Utility will let you do
this. Launch it from Applications:Utilities; click on the Profiles icon
in the toolbar; find your profile in either the User or Computer sections
of the twist-down list on the left; double-click on it. You'll get another
window that shows more detailed information about the profile; there's a
list of "tags" at the top of the window. Scroll down in that list until
you find the "desc" tag at the bottom (it should be #11); this is the
internal name of the profile. The ASCII Name field will contain the text
that's both the internal name of the profile and the external file name.
You can edit it directly here (leave the .icc extension as-is, just change
the name of the profile). When you're done, hit Return, and click the Close
box for the window; you should be prompted about saving changes to the
profile; click the Save button; ColorSync Utility will then change both the
internal name and external (file) name of the profile for you.

If you're running Windows, you may need to use a 3rd party utility to do
this.

Best regards,




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David Miller
Senior Software Developer, Digital Color Solutions
ColorVision