Hi George,
the problem behind this is that under certain circumstances profiles from
certain vendors' profiling softwares cannot be freely distributed. A bit
like the font problems (did you know that - based on the resp. licensing
agreement - for quite a few fonts it is against the law to embed them
into PDF and then exchange them? This means there PDF/X compatible fonts
and fonts that are not PDF/X compatible... Strictly speaking, similar
things might also apply for OutputIntents in PDF/X files - it may be
against the law to extract the profile and use it for proofing, if this
done by somebody else than the person who created the profile with a
licensed version of the profiling software... Not to speak of just giving
ICC profile as such to somebody else.)
Olaf
georgebattrick(a)era.eu.org wrote Thu, 4 Sep 2003 10:15:47 +0200
Hi all!
Does anyone know what is behind this press release? The suppliers of
colour management software are working against interoperability? How
does this affect the workflows proposed in the ECI "white paper"? Does
ECI, as representative of users of the technology, need to jump in? Or
is it just a "storm in a teacup"?
George Battrick
ERA
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Subject: ICC, ISO TC130 call on color management vendors to drop
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Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 14:02:35 -0400
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For Immediate Release For More
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September 3, 2003 William K.
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ICC, ISO TC130 call on color management vendors to drop restrictions on
exchange
of profiles
Two leading organizations promoting better color management in printing
are calling on vendors of International Color Consortium (ICC) profiles and
profile-building software to eliminate restrictive license language that
prevents customers from exchanging profiles with others or embedding them
in job
files.
The ICC and Technical Committee 130 (Graphic Technology) of the
International Organization for Standardization (ISO) joined in a letter to
vendors urging this modification of customer licenses. The organizations'
concern focuses on clauses in vendors' licenses for profiles and
software that
prohibit their customers from distributing the profiles
to third parties.
Such restrictive clauses in licenses hamper effective all-digital
workflows and "are therefore too restrictive for many customer workflow
procedures, particularly procedures that are using file formats defined
in the
PDF/X family of International Standards," the
letter says.
"In some cases," it continues, "these standards may require the
embedding
of output profiles, or both input and output profiles with the data being
exchanged.Moreover, because these standards define file formats for data
exchange they will normally involve exchanges between unrelated
organizations.In
many situations, the sender in these 'open' exchanges (e.g., publication
advertising) may not even be able to identify all of the recipients."
The solution proposed by the two organizations is for vendors to
explicitly permit customers to exchange or embed profiles "for rendering
and/or
processing of the specific objects to which they are related.We believe that
this change will reflectbusiness reality," the letter states.
TC 130 and ICC are asking all vendors to review their policies and take
steps to "insure that your profiles can be used in compliance with
international
standards and to support open color managed data exchange."
The International Color Consortium was established in 1993 to create,
promote and encourage the standardization and evolution of an open,
vendor-neutral, cross-platform color management system architecture and
components.The outcome of this cooperation was development of the ICC profile
specification, now in use by leading vendors of color management
solutions.ICC
regular membership now includes 67 companies and
organizations, in
addition to
four honorary members and seven liaison members.
NPES The Association for Suppliers of Printing, Publishing and
Converting
Technologies serves as ICC's administrative secretariat.For more information,
visit the ICC web site at
www.color.org.
Technical Committee 130 is the ISO panel responsible for developing
standards for all phases of printing.NPES serves as secretariat for the
United
States Technical Advisory Group (TAG) to TC 130.For
more information about
standards development visit
www.npes.org/standards/workroom.html.
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