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Preface - About This Book

A Note on ColorSync Versions

The advanced color imaging books use "ColorSync Manager" or "ColorSync" to refer to version 2.1. They use a specific version number, such as "ColorSync 1.0," only where necessary to identify features associated with a particular version. They most commonly use "2.x" to refer to the International Color Consortium profile reference format version used by ColorSync Manager version 2.0 and later. However, where appropriate, they may use "2.x" to refer inclusively to ColorSync versions 2.0 and 2.1.

Backward Compatibility

Most existing code written to use version 2.0 of the ColorSync Manager should continue to work with version 2.1 without modification.

Although ColorSync 1.0 used a proprietary profile format, the ColorSync Manager provides backward compatibility for applications and device drivers written for ColorSync 1.0. Your application that uses the ColorSync Manager can match, convert, and color check colors using version 2.x profiles or, when necessary, using a combination of version 2.x profiles and ColorSync 1.0 profiles. For a description of the backward-compatibility support provided by the ColorSync Manager, see the appendix, "ColorSync Manager Backward Compatibility," in Advanced Color Imaging on the Mac OS.

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Backward Compatibility