Datacolor User to User Support Group.

On Feb 3, 2009, at 2:24 PM, Nathan Gutman wrote:

> ColorVision supplies and install a utility called "Profile Chooser".  
> It seems that his utility recognizes only profiles generated by the  
> Spyder software. If I try to switch to a different profile it gives  
> me "unexpected length... select another profile" message.
> Is there a workaround?

Our Utility is indeed designed for working with our profiles. We did  
attempt to make it reasonably robust, and it will work with many  
profiles from other sources, but there are various undocumented things  
in other profiles that we did not reverse engineer and deal with, so  
some profiles are cannot be used with it. Your workaround, under XP,  
is to download the Microsoft color management utility, and use that  
for assigning profiles, from whatever origin. Microsoft assumed they  
would be replacing all the functionality of this in Vista with builtin  
features, which is not exactly the case; but the XP utility won't work  
under Vista, so you are on your own with Vista... in this as well as  
other ways.

C. David Tobie
Global Product Technology Manager
Digital Imaging & Home Theater
CDTobie@...