Equivalent Terms In This Book

For historic reasons, this book uses several equivalent Kodak and International Color Consortium (ICC) terms. The terms evolved at different times. Development of the ICC specification introduced new ICC terms with meanings the same as (or similar to) already existing Kodak terms.

You should be familiar with the terms listed in the table below, as you will encounter them in the ICC specification and KCMS color management documentation, as well as in the KCMS header files and example programs. The terms are defined as they are introduced in this book.

Table P-2 Equivalent ICC and Kodak Terms

Kodak Term	ICC Term
attribute	tag
device color profile (DCP)	input, display, or output profile
effects color profile (ECP)	abstract profile
complete color profile (CCP)	device link profile
profile format Id or magic number	profile file signature
reference color space (RCS)	profile connection space (PCS)

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The text in this book uses the term attribute instead of tag, (but code examples and header files may use tag for the historic reasons previously mentioned.

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