Color Management for PDFs in Acrobat

Firefox 3.0.1 is fully color managed now, not by default, but it can easily be so configured. I don't know about Netscape.

Ramón,

color management for PDFs is established in Adobe Acrobat
and Adobe Reader (as we know now). This independent of the
browser.

Best regards --Gernot Hoffmann

Yes, I never meant to imply that the issue was linked to the browser.

Just wondering whether Netscape is color managed or not. That's all.

Now that it comes, Firefox is (can be) colour managed with a plugin. But I wonder 'how much' colour managed is really that colour management.

Just wondering myself.

Gustavo,

Firefox does NOT need any plug-in whatsoever to enable color management.

You enable it in Preferences (accesible by typing about:config in the address bar).

You can then go to any number of sites that offer color mnagaement tests, such as

<http://www.color.org/version4html.xalter>

It works, very, very well,

Firefox is the ONLY color managed web browser that renders untagged images created in sRGB correctly.

Safari, the other color managed web browser, unfortunately follows Apple's ghastly practice of assigning Monitor RGB to all untagged images. This has a catastrophic effect on untagged images saved in sRGB if one happens to be using a Wide Gamut monitor.

All Apple applications, from the Finder through Preview and iPhoto to Safari have this defect o0f throwing Monitor RGB at untagged images.

The problem is compounded by the fact that, currently, Flash transforms all tagged images into untagged ones. (Adobe has announced that help is coming with Flash.)

But Firefox's color management works beautifully.