Inside Macintosh: Advanced Color Imaging on the Mac OS /

Chapter 6 - Developing ColorSync-Supportive Device Drivers

About ColorSync-Supportive Device Driver Development

Your device driver can provide minimal ColorSync Manager support, or it can make extensive use of the ColorSync Manager functions to provide your users with full color-matching capability. This section describes some aspects to consider in regard to profiles you provide for your device.

The ColorSync Manager requires Color QuickDraw and System 7.0 or later. The Component Manager is packaged with the ColorSync Manager and installed at startup in systems that do not include it. Your device driver must include one or more profiles for the device you support and, optionally, a CMM if you want to use a custom one rather than the Apple-supplied default CMM.

---

Subtopics

The ColorSync Manager Programming Interface

Devices and Their Profiles

Devices and Color Management Modules

Providing ColorSync-Supportive Device Drivers