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2004.08.16 21:04 "Re: ICC profile in tiff file on windows", by Chris Cox
At 4:55 PM -0400 8/16/04, Alexander Cohen wrote: > > Your code that parses TIFF tags and TIFF data types should not be > > messing with the ICC profile data. Code that works with ICC profiles > > that run on a Windows platform knows that all the ICC profile > > is big endian ( like an "MM" TIFF file ) and should do the proper > > byte swapping for shorts and longs inside the ICC profile code. > > > > BUT: if you try to read a short or long from an ICC profile with > > Windows code, the bytes will be in the wrong order. > > > > The moral of the story: you might be trying to do something that > > a Color Management System library should do for you. > > Nope, im just reading the ICC profile tag, and taking that data and > passing it to the "OpenColorProfile" function in the windows API. > The same works on mac (with the mac version of the call). Sigh. HOW are you reading the tag data? If you write it to a file, the file should be identical between Macintosh and Windows. Chris