Working with non-physical existing ICC profiles

[Joachim_L]

Strange title, I know, but I don't know how to tease this better in a short title.

I was stumbling about this - in my eyes - strange behaviour this morning. I just wanted to verify a bug with history I thought I experienced yesterday.

Yesterday I examined a APu file with the ICC profile ISOnewspaper26v4 and today I tried to set up a new document with this profile, but to my surprise I could not find it in the list of profiles. Indeed this profile is non-existent on my PC.

So how can I work with a profile which is not available installed?

When opening an APu file with a profile I do not have, is the profile information extracted from the APu file?

Is this profile valid and I can work with it? When I close the file with this ISOnewspaper26v4 profile, do not close the programme and create a new document this profile is still available. Still valid? When I close APu and start it again the profile is (naturally) not available anymore.

Just wondering and if this intended and safe the mods should feel free to move or delete this topic from this forum.

[Callum]

Hi Joachim,

Thank you for raising this question  This is by design at the moment however we have requested that a message appear when you use a profile you don't have to alert you that its a profile you don't have installed.

Thanks

C

[walt.farrell]

27 minutes ago, Callum said:

Thank you for raising this question  This is by design at the moment however we have requested that a message appear when you use a profile you don't have to alert you that its a profile you don't have installed.

Rather than simply giving a message, it might be an interesting improvement to:

1. Make the File > Import ICC Profile... function from Photo available in Publisher and Designer, too; and
2. Allow it to extract the profile from file types other than .icc and .icm files.

Or, I suppose, to allow direct extraction, perhaps a File > Extract ICC Profile... function, or perhaps an Assistant function to automatically offer to install the ICC profile.