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What is claimed is:
1. A color manager high level navigation system comprising:
a graphical user interface;
a color manager selection icon at the highest navigation level of the
graphical user interface; and,
a color manager having a view menu, a characterization tool icon for
activating a profile characterization tool and a profile list window
further comprising:
a list of available profiles matching a filter criteria selected from the
view menu;
a text display box displaying a current default output profile identified
by a symbolic name;
a message box for displaying confirmation of recent actions; and,
a profile to media button for activating a profile to media assignment
dialog.
2. The system as set forth in claim 1 wherein the view menu comprises at
least one of:
a filter that causes all available profiles to be displayed;
a filter that causes only destination profiles to be displayed;
a filter that causes only source profiles to be displayed;
a filter that causes only device gray source profiles to be displayed;
a filter that causes only device RGB source profiles to be displayed;
a filter that causes only device CMY source profiles to be displayed; and,
a filter that causes only device CMYK source profiles to be displayed.
3. The system as set forth in claim 1 further comprising a mouse button
menu that is activated for a currently hi-lighted profile object in the
profile list.
4. The system as set forth in claim 3 wherein the right mouse button menu
comprises a list of functions that can be performed, further comprising at
least one of:
a modify function for the currently hi-lighted profile;
a replace function for the currently hi-lighted profile;
a delete function for the currently hi-lighted profile;
an export function for the currently hi-lighted profile;
a load function to read a profile from an input device;
an import function to read multiple profiles from an input device;
a print current view function; and,
a save current view function.
5. The system as set forth in claim 1 wherein the profile list further
comprises:
a column displaying an icon for each profile that is characterized as a
system profile that cannot be deleted or modified;
a column displaying the symbolic name of each profile;
a column displaying a type for each profile including, but not limited to,
input and output;
a column displaying a color space for each profile including, but not
limited to, gray, RGB, CMY and CMYK; and,
a column displaying a description of each profile.
6. A color manager high level navigation system comprising:
a graphical user interface;
a color manager selection icon at the highest navigation level of the
graphical user interface; and,
a color manager further comprising:
a view menu including:
a filter selection that causes all available profiles to be displayed;
a filter selection that causes only destination profiles to be displayed;
a filter selection that causes only source profiles to be displayed;
a filter selection that causes only device gray source profiles to be
displayed;
a filter selection that causes only device RGB source profiles to be
displayed;
a filter selection that causes only device CMY source profiles to be
displayed; and,
a filter selection that causes only device CMYK source profiles to be
displayed;
a characterization tool icon for activating a profile characterization
tool; and,
a profile list window further comprising:
a list of available profiles matching a filter criteria selected from the
view menu further comprising:
a column displaying an icon for each profile that is characterized as a
system profile that cannot be deleted or modified;
a column displaying a symbolic name of each profile;
a column displaying a type for each profile including, but not limited to,
input and output;
a column displaying a color space for each profile including, but not
limited to, gray, RGB, CMY and CMYK; and,
a column displaying a description of each profile;
a text display box displaying a current default output profile symbolic
name;
a message box for displaying confirmation of recent actions; and,
a profile to media button for activating a profile to media assignment
dialog.
7. The system as set forth in claim 6 further comprising a mouse button
menu that is activated for a currently hi-lighted profile object in the
profile list.
8. The system as set forth in claim 7 wherein the mouse button menu
comprises at least one of:
modify properties dialog selection button for the currently hi-lighted
profile;
a replace dialog selection button for the currently hi-lighted profile;
a delete selection button for the currently hi-lighted profile;
an export dialog selection button for the currently hi-lighted profile;
a load dialog selection button to read a profile from an input device;
an import dialog selection button to read multiple profiles from an input
device;
a print current view selection button; and,
a save current view selection button.
9. The system as set forth in claim 8 wherein the modify properties dialog
comprises a properties dialog window further comprising:
a modifiable text display box showing the symbolic name of the profile
being modified;
a flip-flop check box indicating whether the profile being modified is to
be set as the default profile;
a text display box showing the type of the profile to be modified;
a text display box showing the color space of the profile to be modified;
and,
a modifiable text display box showing the description of the profile to be
modified.
10. The system as set forth in claim 8 wherein the replace dialog
comprises:
a display of profiles compatible with the previously hi-lighted profile in
the profile list further including,
a column containing the symbolic names of compatible profiles and an icon
for each symbolic name indicating profiles that cannot be changed;
a column containing the profile type indicator of each profile;
a column indicating the color space of each profile; and,
a column displaying a description of each profile;
a text display box showing the symbolic name of the profile to be replaced;
and,
a status message to display progress information.
11. The system as set forth in claim 8 wherein the export dialog comprises:
an output device selection pull-down menu;
a directory text display box;
a browse button for activating a device browsing dialog;
a text box for providing an output filename; and,
a list of available profile data files in the selected directory on the
selected output device further comprising:
a column displaying the filename of each profile data file; and,
a column displaying the size of each profile data file.
12. The system as set forth in claim 8 wherein the load dialog comprises:
an input device selection pull-down menu;
a directory text display box;
a browse button for activating a device browsing dialog;
a text filter box for providing an input device filename filter; and,
a list of available profile data files in the selected directory on the
selected input device further comprising:
a column displaying the filename of each profile data file; and,
a column displaying the size of each profile data file.
13. The system as set forth in claim 12 further comprising a load profile
data properties dialog comprising:
a modifiable text display box showing the symbolic name of the profile
being loaded;
a flip-flop check box indicating whether the profile being loaded is to be
set as the default profile;
a text display box showing the type of the profile being loaded;
a text display box showing the color space of the profile being loaded;
and,
a modifiable text display box showing the description of the profile being
loaded.
14. The system as set forth in claim 8 wherein the import dialog comprises:
an input device selection pull-down menu;
a directory text display box;
a browse button for activating a device browsing dialog;
a text filter box for providing an input device filename filter;
a list of available profile data files in the selected directory on the
selected input device further comprising:
a column displaying the filename of each profile data file; and,
a column displaying the size of each profile data file;
a status message to display status information for loaded profiles; and,
an import policy group box containing selectable, mutually exclusive
buttons wherein the first of said selectable buttons indicates that a
duplicate file should not be replaced without asking, and the second of
said selectable buttons indicates that duplicate files are to always be
replaced.
15. The system as set forth in claim 6 wherein the profile to media
assignment dialog comprises:
an assignment view menu including any of, but not limited to:
a filter selection that causes all profile assignments to be displayed;
a filter selection that causes only emulation profile assignments to be
displayed;
a filter selection that causes only specific stock name profile assignments
to be displayed;
a filter selection that causes only specific stock color profile
assignments to be displayed;
a filter selection that causes only specific stock white point profile
assignments to be displayed;
a filter selection that causes only specific stock weight profile
assignments to be displayed;
a filter selection that causes only specific stock coating profile
assignments to be displayed;
a filter selection that causes only specific stock opacity profile
assignments to be displayed; and,
a filter selection that causes only access profile assignments to be
displayed; and,
a profile to media assignment list box further comprising:
a list of available profile to media assignments matching a filter criteria
selected from the assignment view menu further comprising:
a column displaying an emulation type for each profile to media assignment;
a column displaying a stock name for each profile to media assignment;
a column displaying a color for each profile to media assignment;
a column displaying a white point for each profile to media assignment;
a column displaying a weight for each profile to media assignment;
a column displaying a coating for each profile to media assignment;
a column displaying a opacity for each profile to media assignment; and,
a column displaying the symbolic name of the assigned profile; and,
a right mouse button assignment menu providing assignment functions for the
currently highlighted row in the list of available profile to media
assignments further comprising:
a delete assignment dialog activation;
a modify assignment dialog activation;
an export assignment dialog activation;
a create assignment dialog activation;
a print current assignment listing activation; and,
an import assignment dialog activation.
16. The system as set forth in claim 15 wherein the create assignment
dialog comprises:
a stock name selection pull-down menu;
a stock color selection pull-down menu;
a press emulation selection pull-down menu;
a stock coating selection pull-down menu;
a stock opacity selection pull-down menu;
a profile name selection pull-down menu;
a modifiable stock weight text box;
a modifiable stock white point, x direction, text box;
a modifiable stock white point, y direction, text box; and, a flip-flop
check box checked if the stock white point is unspecified.
17. The system as set forth in claim 15 wherein the modify assignment
dialog comprises:
a stock name selection pull-down menu;
a stock color selection pull-down menu;
a press emulation selection pull-down menu;
a stock coating selection pull-down menu;
a stock opacity selection pull-down menu;
a profile name selection pull-down menu;
a modifiable stock weight text box;
a modifiable stock white point, x direction, text box;
a modifiable stock white point, y direction, text box; and,
a flip-flop check box checked if the stock white point is unspecified.
18. The system as set forth in claim 15 wherein the import assignment
dialog comprises:
an input device selection pull-down menu;
a directory text display box;
a browse button for activating a device browsing dialog;
a text filter box for providing an input device filename filter;
a list of available profile assignment files in the selected directory on
the selected input device further comprising:
a column displaying the filename of each profile assignment file; and,
a column displaying the size of each profile assignment file;
a status message to display status information for loaded profile
assignments; and,
an import policy group box containing selectable, mutually exclusive
buttons wherein the first of said selectable buttons indicates that a
duplicate profile assignment file should not be replaced without asking,
and the second of said selectable buttons indicates that duplicate profile
assignment files are to always be replaced.
19. The system as set forth in claim 15 wherein the export assignment
dialog comprises:
an output device selection pull-down menu;
a directory text display box;
a browse button for activating a device browsing dialog;
a text filename box for providing an output device filename;
a list of available profile assignment files in the selected directory on
the selected output device further comprising:
a column displaying the filename of each profile assignment file; and,
a column displaying the size of each profile assignment file;
a status message to display status information for exported profile
assignment files; and,
an export policy flip-flop check box to be checked if the profile data is
to be exported along with the profile to media assignment.
20. A method for managing colors with a high level navigation system
comprising:
displaying a graphical user interface;
displaying a color manager icon at the highest navigation level of the
graphical user interface; and,
displaying options in the color manager providing a user with a choice of
at least one of:
selecting an option in a view menu from at least one of:
selecting a filter selection that causes all available profiles to be
displayed;
selecting a filter selection that causes only destination profiles to be
displayed;
selecting a filter selection that causes only source profiles to be
displayed;
selecting a filter selection that causes only device gray source profiles
to be displayed;
selecting a filter selection that causes only device RGB source profiles to
be displayed;
selecting a filter selection that causes only device CMY source profiles to
be displayed; and,
selecting a filter selection that causes only device CMYK source profiles
to be displayed;
selecting a characterization tool icon for activating a profile
characterization tool; and,
selecting a profile list window further including the steps of:
displaying a list of available profiles matching a filter criteria selected
from the view menu further displaying:
a column displaying an icon for each profile that is characterized as a
system profile that cannot be deleted or modified;
a column displaying a symbolic name of each profile;
a column displaying a type for each profile including, but not limited to,
input and output;
a column displaying a color space for each profile including, but not
limited to, gray, RGB, CMY and CMYK; and,
a column displaying a description of each profile; displaying a text
display box showing a current default output profile symbolic name;
displaying a message box showing confirmation of recent actions; and,
displaying a profile to media button for activating a profile to media
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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
This invention is directed to a graphical and interactive user interface
for user collection and management of color profiles used in a common
controller for full color IOTs.
Increasingly affordable and available computer controlled color printing
and reproduction systems will promote wider use of color in
document-intensive industries or document-intensive functional areas of
enterprises. Using color effectively in environments that support diverse
color systems to produce color display and printed materials requires
reducing the complexity of color specification collection and management
in order to maintain an easy to use, efficient and productive environment
for both the management user and the end user submitting data for printing
in a networked environment.
Some color specification systems utilize a device dependent color
classification model which provides color descriptor classifications that
are derived from, and which control, associated physical devices. Such
device dependent color classification models include the additive red,
green, and blue (RGB) color model used to physically generate colors on a
color monitor, and the subtractive cyan, magenta, and yellow, plus black
(CYMK) color model used to put colored inks or toners on paper. These
models are not generally correlated to a human color perceptual model.
This means that these device dependent color models provide color spaces
that treat color differences and changes in incremental steps along color
characteristics which are useful to control the physical devices but which
are not validly related to how humans visually perceive or describe color.
Furthermore, considerable trial and error may be required to select a
specific color or to achieve a desired color modification because the
color model and its color space representation is not uniform to the user,
and a large change in one or more of the physical descriptors of the color
space, such as in the R, G, or B dimensions, will not necessarily result
in a correspondingly large change in the perceived color,
Other color models exist which are representations of color, based on the
human perceptual attributes of hue, saturation, and value (or brightness
or lightness) dimensions (HSV). While providing some improvement over the
physically based RGB and CMYK color models, these color specifications are
conveniently formulated geometric representations within the existing
physically based color models, and are not psychophysically validated
perceptually uniform color models.
A uniform color space, based on an underlying uniform color model, attempts
to represent colors for the user in a way that corresponds to human
perceptual color attributes that have been actually measured. Using a
device independent and uniform color model as a basis for specifying and
manipulating color provides a foundation for more user control, accuracy,
and precision in color selection and editing, since color specification is
not tied to the physical characteristics of a particular color rendering
device. One such device independent color specification system is that
developed by the international color standards group, the Commission
Internationale de I'Eclairage (the "CIE"). CIE color specification employs
device independent "tristimulus values" to specify colors and to establish
device independent color models by assigning to each color a set of three
numeric tristimulus values according to its color appearance under a
standard source of illumination as viewed by a standard observer. Each set
of X, Y, and Z tristimulus values represents a color according to its
spectral power distribution, as a summation of the color contributions of
all wavelengths within the spectral distribution of a color sample,
corrected for the light source used to illuminate the colored sample and
for the color sensitivity of the standard observer. The CIE has
recommended the use of two approximately uniform color spaces for
specifying color: the CIE 1976 (L*u*v*) or the CIELUV color space, and the
CIE 1976 (L*a*b*) color space (hereafter referred to as "CIELAB" space or
"LAB" space).
Color profiles provide color management systems with the information
necessary to convert color data between native device color spaces and
device independent, uniform color spaces. For example, the International
Color Consortium specification ICC.1:1998-09 divides color devices into
three broad classifications: input devices, display devices and output
devices. For each device class, a series of base algorithmic models are
described which perform the transformation between color spaces.
The complexity and quantity of underlying color models, and the need to
accurately reproduce colors on a wide variety of media, directly impacts
the complexity of color collection and management user interfaces. Prior
art graphical user interface systems have generally consisted of pull-down
menus in which the color collection and management features have been
accessible only after navigating several layers deep into the menu system.
These systems have generally been non-intuitive for both the interface
user and the end user who needs to know which color profile to select for
accurate color reproduction on the selected output media.
Accordingly, there is a need in the art for an improved graphical user
interface system for color profile collection and management for full
color IOTs.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
A method and graphical user interface system are provided for color profile
collection and management on the controllers for full color IOTs. In one
embodiment of the present invention, the system comprises a graphical user
interface having a color manager selection icon at the highest navigation
level of the graphical user interface. The highest level contains a
pathway bar that is always available, even at lower navigational levels,
with selection icons for the most frequently performed tasks, including
color management. A printer status window is also always displayed in
another area of the graphical user interface so the interface user can, at
all times, observe any printer fault messages being displayed and the
status of the currently printing job.
When the color manager icon is selected, a color manager is opened that
includes a view menu and a characterization tool icon for activating a
profile characterization tool and a profile list window. The view menu
includes filter selections permitting the user to selectively view only
specific categories of color profiles installed on the system. The default
filter selection causes all available profiles to be displayed while there
are other filter selections to display only destination profiles, source
profiles, device gray source profiles, device RGB source profiles, device
CMY source profiles and device CMYK source profiles.
The profile list window displays a list of available profiles matching the
filter criteria selected from the above described view menu. The profile
list window contains columns for displaying a symbolic name of the
profile, type, color space, white point and, importantly, a description of
the profile. The symbolic name must be unique and will later be assigned
to one or more output media in a one-to-many relationship. The one-to-many
relationship is used advantageously when there are, for example, several
brands of similar media for which a given profile will perform
satisfactorily. The symbolic names can be chosen to be descriptive names
of the corresponding input or output device or medium, making it easier
for the user to assign the correct color profile to a given output medium.
The profile list window also includes a column displaying an icon for each
color profile that is characterized as a system profile that cannot be
deleted or modified and a message box for displaying confirmation of
recent actions.
A right mouse button menu is available to the user for each row, or color
profile, in the profile list window. The right mouse button menu provides
necessary functionality for managing the color profiles, permitting the
user to modify profile properties, for the currently hi-lighted profile,
replace a profile, delete a hi-lighted profile, export a profile to an
archival type output device, load a profile from an archival type input
device, import multiple profiles from an archival type input device, print
the current view and save the current view.
The present invention also provides for managing profile to media
assignments. A profile to media assignment dialog includes columns for
displaying emulation type, stock name, color, white point, weight,
coating, opacity and, most importantly, a symbolic color profile name. All
of the columns, except the symbolic name column, comprise a media
definition pertaining, for example, to one type of paper. The symbolic
name may also be assigned to the other media in a one-to-many relationship
as describe above. A view filter.is provided permitting the user to
display, besides all assignments, only emulation profile assignments, only
specific stock name profile assignments, only specific stock color profile
assignments, only specific stock white point profile assignments, only
specific stock weight profile assignments, only specific stock coating
profile assignments, only specific stock opacity profile assignments and
only access profile assignments.
The profile to media assignment dialog also includes a profile to media
assignment list box further including a list of available profile to media
assignments matching the aforementioned filter criteria. The list includes
columns displaying emulation type, stock name, color, white point, weight
for each profile to media assignment, coating, opacity and symbolic name
of the assigned profile.
A right mouse button pull-down menu is also provided for assignment
functions for the currently highlighted row in the list of available
profile to media assignments further comprising a delete assignment dialog
activation, a modify assignment dialog activation, an export assignment
dialog activation, a create assignment dialog activation, a print current
assignment listing activation and an import assignment dialog activation.
A first advantage of the present invention is the availability of color
profile collection and management functions at the highest level of the
graphical user interface.
Another advantage of the present invention is the ability to apply
descriptive symbolic names to each color profile, as opposed to the less
descriptive filenames typical of prior color management systems.
Still another advantage of the present invention is the ability to add
descriptive text to industry standard ICC color profiles thus facilitating
accurate management and use of the color profiles.
Still further advantages of the present invention will become apparent to
those of ordinary skill in the art upon reading and understanding the
following detailed description of the preferred embodiment.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
The present invention exists in the construction, arrangement, in
combination of the various parts of the device, and steps of the method,
whereby the objects contemplated are attained as hereinafter more fully
set forth, specifically pointed out in the claims, and illustrated in the
accompanying drawings in which:
FIG. 1 illustrates a graphical user interface system of the present
invention with a color manager opened and a color profiles tab selected;
FIG. 2 illustrates the graphical user interface system of FIG. 1 with an
open view menu and an open right mouse click menu;
FIG. 3 illustrates a replace profile data dialog;
FIG. 4 illustrates a load profile data dialog;
FIG. 5 illustrates a load profile data properties dialog;
FIG. 6 illustrates a modify profile data properties dialog;
FIG. 7 illustrates an import profile data dialog;
FIG. 8 illustrates an export profile data dialog;
FIG. 9 illustrates a profile to media assignment dialog;
FIG. 10 illustrates the profile to media assignment dialog of FIG. 9 with
an open view menu and an open right mouse click menu;
FIG. 11 illustrates a create profile assignment dialog;
FIG. 12 illustrates a modify profile assignment dialog;
FIG. 13 illustrates an import profile assignment dialog; and,
FIG. 14 illustrates an export profile assignment dialog.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
Referring now to the drawings which are provided for illustrating the
preferred embodiments of the invention only and not for purposes of
limiting same, FIG. 1 provides a view of an exemplary graphical user
interface 10 to which the present invention is directed. Of course, other
configurations may also have the present invention applied thereto.
The graphical user interface 10 contains a pathway bar 12, at the highest
level of the graphical user interface, on which a color manager icon 14 is
found. Selecting this icon with a mouse, keyboard or other pointing device
activates a color manager 16. Within the color manager 16 is a view
pull-down menu 18, a characterization tool icon 20 and a color profile
list window 22.
With reference to FIG. 2, and with continuing reference to FIG. 1, where
like-numbered numerals identify similar graphical interface elements, the
color profile list window 22 and other elements are explained in more
detail. The view pull-down menu 18, when selected, provides a list of
selectable view filters 24. A default view filter 26 displays all
available color profiles 28 in a profile list 30. Exemplary view filters
available in the view pull-down menu 18, besides the default filter, are
filters for displaying only destination profiles, source profiles, device
gray profiles, device RGB profiles, device CMY profiles and device CMYK
profiles. Color profiles such as color profiles 28 provide color
management systems with the information necessary to convert color data
between native device color spaces and device independent color spaces.
For example, the International Color Consortium specification
ICC.1:1998-09 divides color devices into three broad classifications:
input devices, display devices and output devices. For each device class,
a series of base algorithmic models are described which perform the
transformation between color spaces.
Profile list 30 consists of a columnar display, where each row 32
represents an available color profile 28, with an icon column 34 which
contains an icon 36 if the color profile is a system-provided profile that
cannot be modified or deleted. Other columns in the profile list 30 are a
symbolic name column 38 containing a symbolic name 40 by which the profile
is referenced by users, a profile type column 42 containing various type
identifiers 44 such as input and output, a color space column 46 with
various color space identifiers 48 such as, but not limited to, gray, RGB,
CMY and CMYK, and a description column 50 with descriptions 52 of the
corresponding color profiles 28. The symbolic name 40 is a particularly
useful feature of the present invention, making color profile 28
referencing for management and selection by end users much more convenient
than the traditional filenames used by prior art color management systems.
Additional components of the color profile list window 22 consist of a text
display box 54 that shows the current default output profile 28 symbolic
name 40, a message box 56 that displays confirmation of recent actions, a
profile-to-media button 58 for activating a profile to media assignment
dialog which will be explained in detail in conjunction with FIG. 9, and a
pull-down or right mouse button menu 60 that is activated: for the
currently hi-lighted profile 28 which was hi-lighted by any one of several
well known means such as mouse selection, keyboard selection and pointing
device selection. The pull-down or right mouse button menu 60 includes a
number of selection options, such as a modify properties dialog selection
button 62, a replace dialog selection button 64, a delete selection button
66, an export dialog selection button 68, a load dialog selection button
70, an import dialog selection button 72, a print current view selection
button 74 and a save current view selection button 76. Each dialog will be
discussed in further detail in the following discussion.
Another feature of graphical user interface 10 is a status area 78 which
displays a current status in message box 80, and also displays any fault
information in fault list window 82. In this way, the printer user, not
shown, can easily observe current status 78 and any printer faults in
window 82 while performing color profile management and navigation.
With reference now to FIG. 3, and continuing reference to FIG. 2, an aspect
of navigation with respect to the replace dialog selection button 64 is
explained. When the replace dialog selection button 64 is selected, a
replace profile data dialog 84 window is opened. Within dialog 84 are the
usual navigation buttons found in most graphical user interfaces,
including an OK button 86 for confirming an action to be taken, a Cancel
button 88 for canceling the dialog 84 and a Help button 90 whereby the
user may obtain helpful instructions. These buttons appear in most dialogs
and will not be discussed further unless their function is unique with
respect to the dialog being discussed.
The profile data dialog 84 window also includes a list box 92 displaying a
list of profiles 28 that are compatible with a previously hi-lighted
profile 28. The list box 92 contains the symbolic name column 38, the
profile type column 42, the color space column 46 and the description
column 50 which provides the necessary information for the user to select
a profile with which to replace the previously hi-lighted profile. Text
display box 94 will show the symbolic name 40 of the profile selected in
list box 92 that is destined to replace the previously hi-lighted profile,
whose symbolic name 40 is shown as text display 96, when the OK button 86
is selected. A status message 98 will consequently display progress
information.
With reference now to FIG. 4, and continuing reference to FIG. 2, another
aspect of navigation with respect to the load dialog selection button 70
is explained. When the load dialog selection button 70 is selected, a load
profile data dialog 100 window is opened. Within dialog 100 is an input
device selection pull-down menu 102 used to select one input device from
all available devices, a directory text display box 104 displaying the
name of the currently selected directory on the selected input device, and
a browse button 106 which, when selected, provides typical GUI directory
navigation of the selected input device. A text filter box 108 is provided
in which a filter may be specified to restrict filenames 110 displayed in
filename list box 112 to those matching the filter specification. With
each filename 110, a corresponding size 114 is displayed. The filenames
and sizes are displayed in a filename column 116 and a size column 118
respectively. Once a filename 110 has been hi-lighted, an apply button 120
may be selected to load the corresponding file from the selected input
device. The file will contain a plurality of profiles 28 which will, after
loading, be available in color profile list window 22. The above described
action may be performed repeatedly to load multiple profile data files
110. Selecting a Close button 122 will close the load profile data dialog
100.
Each time the apply button 120 is selected, a load profile data properties
dialog 124 as shown in FIG. 5 will be activated for each profile
associated with the selected filename 110. The dialog 124 will include a
text display 126 of the profile type 44, a text display 128 of the
symbolic name 40, a text display 130 of the color space 48, a text display
132 of the description 52 and a flip-flop check box 134 to optionally make
the profile name shown in box 128 the new default profile displayed in box
54. Selecting an OK button 136 serves to approve the profile for loading.
Selecting a Cancel button 138 cancels the loading of the profile named in
box 128. In this way, individual profiles 28 discovered in the file
corresponding the filename 110 can be selected and loaded, as opposed to
all profiles 28 contained in the file.
With reference now to FIG. 6, and continuing reference to FIG. 2, another
aspect of navigation with respect to the modify properties dialog
selection button 62 is explained. When the modify properties dialog
selection button 62 is selected, a modify profile data properties dialog
window 140 is opened. The dialog window 140 is similar to the load profile
dialog box 100 and will likewise include the text display 126 of the
profile type 44, the text display 128 of the symbolic name 40, the text
display 130 of the color space 48, the text display 132 of the description
52 and the flip-flop check box 134 to optionally make the profile name
shown in box 128 the new default profile displayed in box 54. Selecting
the OK button 136 serves to approve the modified profile properties.
Selecting the Cancel button 138 cancels any modifications of the profile
named in box 128.
With reference now to FIG. 7, and continuing reference to FIGS. 2 and 4,
still another aspect of navigation with respect to the import dialog
selection button 72 is explained. When the import dialog selection button
72 is selected, an import profile data dialog window 140 is opened. Within
dialog window 140 is an input device selection pull-down menu 102 used to
select one input device from all available devices, a directory text
display box 104 displaying the name of the currently selected directory on
the selected input device, and a browse button 106 which, when selected,
provides typical GUI directory navigation of the selected input device. A
text filter box 108 is provided in which a filter may be specified to
restrict filenames 110 displayed in | | |
