Datacolor User to User Support Group.

For those of you considering updating to Apple's new Lion OS, here is a link to all known compatibility issues with all levels of Spyder display calibration products:

http://www.datacolor.eu/en/support/osx-lion-support/index.html

This document is also available in French and German, but since this is an English list, I've posted the English link.

The key issue for Spyder2 apps is that Lion no longer supports Rosetta emulation, thus older applications (including the Spyder2 apps) cannot be run under Lion. A basic app that is Lion compatible, that can be used with these older Spyder 2 unit will be developed by fall.  Keep in mind that updating to Spyder3 certainly makes sense for anyone with a newer display type (which tends to go along with a newer computer, and a newer OS such as Lion). 

The key issue for Spyder3 is that Apple has decided to make the folder where ICC profiles are stored in the main Library a "read only" location. This is part of the ongoing goal of making OSes more secure, but the reasoning for this particular choice is very unclear, since other items at that same level have not been reset this way. The simplest fix is to set your software to save your profiles to your own folder (which you still, at least at this point in time, retain full control over). This means other users won't have access to your profiles. 

While Spyder3Print SR is not included in the document  linked above, the only issues I've noticed there is the same as for the display calibration products: you need to save profiles to your user library, not the global one, unless you reset the permissions on that Library ICC profiles folder... something I haven't actually tried yet. A terminal script should do it, if its "legal" to do, but we can't really go around resetting permissions to OS folders from our apps, so I doubt our software will ever perform this function for you. We all might as well get used to having our profiles in our user library...

C. David Tobie
Global Product Technology Manager
Imaging Color Solutions
CDTobie@...
Datacolor
www.datacolor.com/Spyder