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Apple's ColorSync Utility is built in to OS X. ColorSync profiles are used in image-rendering devices so colors will match across different devices. For instance, if you have two monitors attached. Use ColorSync Utility to view installed color profiles on your Mac. When you install devices, such as cameras, displays, or printers, a color profile containing the color capabilities and limits for each device is created. In the ColorSync Utility app on your Mac, click Profiles in the toolbar of the ColorSync Utility window. I have a Display P3 color (1, 0, 0), on a scale of 0.0 to 1.0. I want to find out what the closest color to this is in the sRGB gamut. I chose (1, 0, 0) on the right side.

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now if this just worked for an image not contained in a pdf.....

Well, fire up Preview, export it to PDF, and then use the filters. Or, even better, do a Print from preview, apply the filter in the Colorsync panel of the print box, and save the result as PDF from the print box.

Actually this does work with images just drag an image onto the ColorSync icon in the Dock, I found this out after i submitted the hint.

i tried that, but it actually bloats the image size....i dont know, maybe colorsync is only pdf friendly....

that is my point....i dont want to use a pdf....just trying to reduce image size...guess im stuck with smallImage.app for a while...thanks anyway.

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This is great!, but I tried defining a new filter and could not get it to appear in the print dialog as a new Colorsync filter option. Also, the 'standard' filters that do appear there are 'locked' and cannot apparently be edited. Anyone see a way to re/define filters and have them appear in the print dialog? Reading the help did not seem to help me out with this.
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TomEM
Crofton, MD

Yeah. Duplicate an existing one, then edit the duplicate. Apple won't let you change theirs, but you can do whatever you want with your copies.

Not much to do with the original topic, but: can one define a ColourSync filter that will reverse colours? It happens I have to print documents with light text on dark background on b/w laser, and it would be prettier and more economic to reverse colours beforehand...

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This no longer works in Lion. Colorsync Utility does appear to still have extra filters, so if anyone finds out how to use them please share. This was a great hint when it worked.

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After making the filter in ColorSync Utility, move or copy the filter from ~/Library/Filters/ to /Library/PDF Services/ (or /Library/Filters/ but that doesn't exist by default). If you called the filter “Make My PDF Awesome”, the filter will be saved as a file called Make My PDF Awesome.qfilter.

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It seems pretty stupid of Apple to mess up the whole user's library, then machine's library, then OS X's library thing, but apparently that's what they wanted to do.

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Credit & thanks go out to midnightmac on the Apple Discussion Forums, whoever they may be.