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March 13, 2007
Adobe CMM released, ready for download
I'm pleased to announce that following a successful public beta period on Adobe Labs, the Adobe Color Management Module (CMM) has been completed & is now available as a free download. In a nutshell, the CMM turns the color converter part of the Adobe Color Engine (ACE) into a library that can be used by non-Adobe apps. This means you can use a single color management engine across your workflow, enabling more consistent display and output of colors.
Props & thanks to Lars Borg, Peter Constable, Ken Kameda, Manish Kulkarni, Rick Wulff, Daniel Taborga, and everyone else who helped bring the CMM to the community.
Comments
Let me get this straight. Now an image in MS Word or Publisher or Quark will look the same as in Photoshop?
[Yep, as long as those apps let you select a color management module, or the CMM is selectable as the default CMM at the operating system level. --J.]
WOW! This is one of those great things that I love to talk about. Responsibility and vision for the future of color quality. Excellent.
[Cool. I like getting to play the messenger on news like this. :-) --J.]
So, this means that Windows Users get something like ColorSync that Mac Users have been enjoying for, well, something like forever? Of course, I think they should all switch to a Mac, but I am all for everyone having consistent color - make the world a little nicer
[It's not a platform-war thing. On either OS, you can now choose to use the Adobe color management engine to do the color transforms, rather than relying on some other engine. Prior to this, if you wanted to use a consistent CMM across, say, Photoshop and Quark, you might end up picking something like the Apple CMM because it would be available to both apps. Now the Adobe CMM is avaialable in the same way, meaning you can get consistent, Adobe-managed color across a wide range of tools. --J.]
Is this the case in windows vista as well?
how's it relate with WCS?
[For those not in the know: Vista now has 2 color
pipelines, Integrated Color Management (ICM) and the new Windows Color System (WCS). To answer your question: the Adobe CMM works with ICM. --J.]
How much freedom do developers have in deploying applications that use the Adobe CMM library?
I looked over the EULA, but couldn't make any sense of it.
Can developers include the library in their application distributions? Or do people need to get the library directly from the Adobe Labs site?
[Peter Constable replies, "Developers who would like to distribute the Adobe CMM with their software can do so under the terms of a bundling license that will be available when the Adobe CMM is available on the adobe.com/downloads site (most likely mid-to end of April). They can contact me directly if they would like to move forward before this date." He's pconstab at adobe.com. --J.]