Re: CMYK at ColorVision (was: New 2.06 versions of Profiler/Doctor software posted)

["Sam A. McCandless" <samcc@vom.com>]

<x-flowed>David Miller <dmiller@cloud9.net> wrote, in part and in response to 
my whining and worrying about becoming CMYK-profile deficient in 
Photoshop 6 unless I spring for ProfilerPro:

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>
>- Buying Profiler Pro wouldn't help you build CMYK profiles under 
>PS6, either. ...
>
>- We're going to do something to work around this, and those changes should
>be in the next major revision of the plugins.
>
>- You can feel confident that there will be future updates to all of 
>the plugins
>(so that you, and everyone else, won't be "abandoned" or "orphaned"). We've
>updated the software periodically since the beginning of the year; more
>frequently than any of the other scanner-based profiles; there have been 3
>updates to the Windows plugins, and 2 to the Mac plugins, since July. There
>hasn't been any reduction in programming effort on the plugins since
>ColorVision acquired Horses.
>
>- The 2.06 plugins have already been modified so that some of the 
>2.05 functions
>are now available under Photoshop 6 - namely, the Preview operations
>have been changed to be compatible. This wasn't a small amount of work, since
>the plugins now have to perform Previews one way under Photoshop 5, and a
>different way under Photoshop 6. The missing piece right now is CMYK 
>profiling,
>and that's at the top of the list of things that get worked on next.

And I'm very relieved to have David's reassurance. I'm also sorry to 
have misinterpreted or over-interpreted the 2.06 update notes, and to 
have failed to appreciate what has been done in my anxiety about what 
I thought was not going to be done.

Sam

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