Custom ICC profiles: can't get at them

[Chris_Pearson]

Many production environments will have dozens, if not hundreds, of custom colour profiles which will typically not be stored in the OS's default location.

In my own environment I have 10 printers of various kinds, each of which might have 20 or more paper types available, and we'd produce at least one ICC profile for each printer / ink combination (that's 200 already). As these profiles have to be available to 4 production staff, working on PCs and Macs, they're in a folder structure on a server - anyone can get at them.

There seems to be no way to navigate to such folders from within the A Pub print dialogue, which renders the app unusable. Any 'workaround' involving copying profiles to local folders will not do, profiles are updated regularly and need to be seamlessly available to all users. 

Please have a think about this, if you don't make this straightforward, print shops / departments won't dick around, they'll simply tell their clients that they can't accept Affinity files.

[Chris_K]

HI Chris_Pearson

This may be a good case to have the Import Icc feature from Photo. I can pass it on to the development team for consideration

Cheers

[walt.farrell]

9 minutes ago, Chris_K said:

This may be a good case to have the Import Icc feature from Photo. I can pass it on to the development team for consideration

Thanks, Chris_K, but even better would be a way to be able to configure an additional location where the Affinity products would look for ICC profiles. Kind of like the Preference Affinity provides for the location of additional dictionaries.

Or what Chris_Pearson is asking for, which is a way from the various ICC-profile-related dialogs (Assign/Convert, or during Print/Export) for the user to navigate to a folder of their choice that contains the profiles. That way they can remain centralized, where any changes/updates can be applied once rather than to every machine that has "imported" them.

(But I know that both of these ideas are more in the realm of Feature Requests.)

[Chris_Pearson]

53 minutes ago, Chris_K said:

HI Chris_Pearson

This may be a good case to have the Import Icc feature from Photo. I can pass it on to the development team for consideration

Cheers

I think that approach would be too clunky for the scenario I outlined, I'd have thought that simply letting us browse to a folder of our choice would be more straightforward.