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Inside Macintosh: Advanced Color Imaging on the Mac OS /: Preface - About This Book / A Note on ColorSync Versions

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 gamut 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."