Re: [Lcms-user] Confused about cmsCreateMultiprofileTransform error

[Steve M. <sm...@mu...>]

On May 13, 2008, at 17:32:25, Steve Mills wrote:

> OK, so now I'm trying to use cmsCreateProofingTransform and am  
> getting an error that the output format space does not match the  
> output profile's space. I don't understand why it's checking the  
> *output* profile's space against the output format space. Shouldn't  
> it check the *proofer* profile's space to make sure it matches the  
> output format space? The it goes input->output->proofer, right?  
> That's how I assume it would go. If I'm color matching to the  
> monitor, the output format space is rgb, but the output profile is  
> for a cmyk printer and the proofer profile is for the monitor.


Nobody has an answer for this? Supplying the cmsFLAGS_SOFTPROOFING  
flag doesn't make any difference in this respect, but then I don't  
fully understand (nor do the docs explain) why the  
cmsFLAGS_SOFTPROOFING flag needs to be given, when the function is  
called cmsCreatePROOFINGTransform.

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