Deprecated ColorSync Manager Functions

Question

The ColorSync Manager functions was deprecated. Where to find the solution to deal with about icc profile.

Thanks

Answer 1

All ColorSync Manager function are deprecated since Mac OS X 10.6 (see https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/GraphicsImaging/Reference/ColorSync_Manager/Reference/reference.html). As far as I know:

• All ColorSync functions are still available up to OS X 10.9. The reason is probably that many applications depend on this functionality.

• There is no other Apple framework replacing ColorSync. Core Graphics allows you to perform certain color transformations, but does not offer the full functionality of Color Sync.

We can only hope that Apple provides a replacement before removing the deprecated functions from OS X.

If you don't want to depend on a deprecated interface, then perhaps "Little CMS" (http://www.littlecms.com) could be an alternative (you know about it :-), but I have no practical experience with that.