RE: [Lcms-user] Problem installing profile on Windows 2000

[Hugh B. <ebr...@ci...>]

Thanks for the fast reply. I already had the verbosity at minimum.
Switching to 22 points instead of 33 got it to load. So I guess the
'fix' is: Change things at random until Microsoft likes the profile.

I wrote a little C++ program a while back to wrap the (Microsoft) CMS
InstallColorProfile() function
to use as a custom action in the Microsoft Installer. If I get some time
I'll expand it to look up the error. This might shed some light on what the
Microsoft CMS is
failing on. It is probably something idiotic like a field with an odd number
of characters.

Bugs in Microsoft software? I'm speechless! Next you'll be telling me that
someone can take
over my computer just by my clicking on a link or reading my mail.

-----Original Message-----
From: Marti Maria [mailto:ma...@li...]
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 4:45 AM
To: Hugh Brackett; Lcm...@li...
Subject: Re: [Lcms-user] Problem installing profile on Windows 2000


Hi,

>I can load the profile in the profile checker and it does not complain. I
> can't see any obvious reason that Windows likes one profile and not the
other.
>
>Any idea what is going on?

This is a know problem. Unfortunately, seems not a mistake of lcms but
of Windows ICM. If you really needs the profile to be "installed", set the
verbosity of profiler to minimum. But please note that "install" does
nothing
on Windows. The profile is never used by the OS. Is the application
software who is responsible to do all operation with profile. And many
applications (Adobe PhotoShop, for examples) completely surpasses
windows ICM. Chris Cox, from Adobe have said many times
ICM is too buggy to be useful.

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Cox%2BICM%2Bbu
ggy

Regards,
Marti.