Datacolor User to User Support Group.

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


One is ICC Profile toolkit at:
http://www.tlbtlb.com/links/

The other is using the MS Color applet:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1e33dca0-
7721-
43ca-9174-7f8d429fbb9e&displaylang=en

Both of these will allow you to change the "internal" name.  

MS Color applet allows changing both external and internal at same 
time or just thhe internal.  Right click on the profile name to see 
options.


John


--- In colorvision_group@yahoogroups.com, David Miller <dm2363@...> 
wrote:
>
> >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,
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> David Miller
> Senior Software Developer, Digital Color Solutions
> ColorVision
>