Soft proof ICC profiles in quasi-random order (macOS Ventura)

[nickbatz]

Editing this thread to ask my question:

macOS Ventura

Is there an easy way to get ICC profiles in the soft proof layer to appear alphabetically?

I've only added a handful of them for different papers I print on, but there are a lot, and having to scroll through several dozen of them is a First World nuisance.

They're installed in the systemwide ColorSync folder, not an Affinity location, but still.

TIA

[PaulEC]

Although you can’t delete a post you can hide it. Click on the three dots at the top right of your post and select “hide” from the menu.

[R C-R]

If you tell us what happens when you try to post whatever question you want to ask, we may be able to help you figure out what the problem is.

[nickbatz]

Screenshot below.

 

[walt.farrell]

If you're including an attachment, it may have a name that is triggering some security protocol. Try leaving it off, or renaming it, or Zipping it before attaching.

[nickbatz]

No attachment.

[firstdefence]

Ask the question in your next post here 

[thomaso]

Could you edit this thread, its title and your first post, and replace them with your question?

[nickbatz]

9 hours ago, thomaso said:

Could you edit this thread, its title and your first post, and replace them with your question?

Good idea. Thanks.

[firstdefence]

21 hours ago, nickbatz said:

Editing this thread to ask my question:

macOS Ventura

Is there an easy way to get ICC profiles in the soft proof layer to appear alphabetically?

I've only added a handful of them for different papers I print on, but there are a lot, and having to scroll through several dozen of them is a First World nuisance.

They're installed in the systemwide ColorSync folder, not an Affinity location, but still.

TIA

and we're off lol!

There doesn't appear to be any way to alphabetise the profiles, they appear to be collected from Affinity installed profiles and system profiles.

On Mac, these are the profiles found in the apps content > resources > Etc > Colour folder.
 

I assume the rest shown in the soft proof window are from the system.

[thomaso]

21 hours ago, nickbatz said:

Is there an easy way to get ICC profiles in the soft proof layer to appear alphabetically?

It might be more relevant to understand how Affinity handles soft proof, respectively to be aware of its limitations which may become issues for certain profiles. There are are a few threads (some appear with a search for "soft proof", some need "softproof") discussing unexpected problems, some of the threads became quite long. Here an example link to a Serif moderator's comment:

[nickbatz]

55 minutes ago, thomaso said:

It might be more relevant to understand how Affinity handles soft proof, respectively to be aware of its limitations which may become issues for certain profiles.

Thanks, yes, I'm fully aware that soft proofing in Affinity Photo is at best a rough guideline, in fact it would take some doing to convince me that it's more than that in any program - even if you calibrate your printer using official tools (I just use the profile for my monitor and it's as close as it's going to get).

But it is helpful as a crude test before I make the first of several hard proofs. When every blue in a picture is out of gamut, that's a clue that I'll want to make some adjustments.

Now, never mind this, I wish it were possible to print directly from Affinity Photo (I'm talking about fine art printing, not just using the system driver). Would that, say, Canon Pro Print & Layout or even the QImage plug-in were supported. That's a million and one miles higher on my list than all that AI tosser crap people were on about a couple of weeks ago.

[walt.farrell]

On 6/26/2023 at 6:19 PM, nickbatz said:

Screenshot below

I know you've worked around the 403, but I had a similar problem this morning and it turns out that the exact text strings used in a post can also trigger this security issue. So, it might help to try rewording the post.

I also found that something like a binary search approach can help. Try to post half of the text. If that works, try to post (perhaps by editing the prior post) the other half. If one of them fails, break it down further, until you find the phrase that triggered the error, and reword that part.