Here you can find the current standard offset profiles based on the Fogra characterization data available for download. The new profiles replace the past profile versions from January 2003. The consistent employment of the new profiles is generally recommended, since they correspond both to the current conditions of the ISO standardization. Also be aware that SWOP is for Web-offset Coated paper, and not for sheetfed or uncoated! You should NEVER, ever use 'Image/Mode/CMYK Color' in Photoshop, without thinking, as there is a very good chance that your images will be converted to 'SWOP Coated.V2' which is almost certainly not what your client wants! Hi, working in Illy CC 2014, I am having an issue with embedded profile when opening a document. For all previous Illy versions, color settings for CMYK is set to - US web Coated (Swop) V2.

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Issue

When you try to create a PDF file with Adobe Acrobat Distiller, you receive a PostScript error log such as:

%%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: setdistillerparams; ErrorInfo: CalCMYKProfile U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) v2 ]%%

Mar 24, 2010  Best Answer: An ICC profile is for controlling colour. US Web Coated (SWOP) is for 'standard web offset printing', i.e. It's a CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow, black) profile, that is specifically for printing, so if you aren't working in CMYK, it's basically irrelevant to you. If you build your artwork in a SWOP colour space such as US Web Coated SWOP v2, then you simply can't specify those colours! To conclude: SWOP is useful if you're preparing artwork for SWOP certified offset printers, or where that makes up one element of a multi faceted production that must match.

%%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%%

Error accessing color profile: U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) v2

%%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %%

Distill Time: 0 seconds (00:00:00)

**** End of Job ****

When you use PDFMaker in a Microsoft Office application, PDFMaker may return the error message 'ERROR' followed by the message 'Adobe PDF printer failed to create the PDF file.'

Solutions

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Do one or more of the following solutions:

Solution 1: Reinstall the USWebCoatedSWOP.icc profile.

To download and extract profiles:

1. Download replacement ICC profiles from the adobe website at www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=62&platform=Windows

2. Extract the ZIP file.

Note: Windows 2000 users can use a utility such as WinZip or WinRAR to extract the ZIP file by right-clicking the downloaded ZIP file and selecting the Extract option. Windows XP users can right click the ZIP file and select the Extract All Files option.

To install a missing or corrupt profile:

1. Navigate to the USWebCoatedSWOP.icc profile. (The AdobeICCProfiles_0805.zip archive contains two directories: CMYK Profiles and RGB Profiles. USWebCoatedSWOP.icc is in the CMYK folder.)

2. Right-click the profile and choose Install Profile.

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Note: Proceed to Solution 2 if Uninstall Profile is present.

Solution 2: Remove corrupted profiles and manually reinstall the profiles.

Before you remove corrupted files, download and extract replacement profiles:

1. Download replacement ICC profiles from the adobe website at www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=62&platform=Windows

2. Extract the ZIP file.

Note: Windows 2000 users can use a utility such as WinZip or WinRAR to extract the ZIP file by right-clicking the downloaded ZIP file and selecting the Extract option. Windows XP users can right click the ZIP file and select the Extract All Files option.

To remove corrupted profiles and reinstall them:

1. Navigate to the USWebCoatedSWOP.icc profile. (The AdobeICCProfiles_0805.zip archive contains two directories: CMYK Profiles and RGB Profiles. USWebCoatedSWOP.icc is in the CMYK folder.)

2. Right-click USWebCoatedSWOP.icc and choose Copy.

3. If you are using a 32-bit edition of Windows then navigate to C:Program FilesCommon FilesAdobeColorProfilesRecommended. If you are using a 64-bit edition of Windows then navigate to C:Program Files (x86)Common FilesAdobeColorProfilesRecommended.

4. Delete any listings for USWebCoatedSWOP.icc.

5. Select Edit > Paste.

6.If you are using a 32-bit edition of Windows then navigate to C:WINDOWSsystem32spooldriverscolor. If you are using a 64-bit edition of Windows then navigate to C:WINDOWSsysWOW64spooldriverscolor.

7. Delete any listings for USWebCoatedSWOP.icc.

8. Select Edit > Paste.

Solution 3: Remove corrupted profiles from the joboption feature.

Note: This solution eliminates the error message but does not address the source of the issue. Disabling the joboption feature may alter the appearance of colors on screen or during the print process.

1. Choose Start > Programs > Acrobat Distiller to start Distiller.

2. In Distiller, select Settings > Edit Adobe PDF Settings.

3. Click the Color tab.

4. Change the Color Management Policies setting to Leave Color Unchanged.

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5. Click Save As.

6. Name the modified joboption, click Save, and then click OK.

7. Repeat steps 2-6 for any additional joboptions that are used to convert files to PDF.

8. Select File > Exit.

Background information

This error is caused by corrupted ICC profiles. Acrobat generates the error when it is unable to access or load the profiles.

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Is there a place where I can get the formula which photoshop uses to convert rgb to cmyk?I know there are formulas on the web, but photoshop does not use this formula. It converts the collors different.

Can someone tell me the photoshop formula?

Thanks!

3 Answers

Most likely, Photoshop uses a color profile for converting RGB to CMYK.

If you want to do the same with a .NET language on Windows, then there's an API for it:

Note that two different Color classes from two different namespaces are used. And you probably need to add the PresentationCore DLL as a reference.

In this particular case, the ISO Coated v2 300% (ECI) profile is used. It can be downloaded from the downloads section of eci.org. It's part of a bigger ZIP file containing several profiles.

If you need to convert a complete image from CMYK to RGB, there are special classes in the same namespace that use a color profile as well.

There's a nice little online app for testing the CMYK color conversion with a color profile.

They are many different ICC Color Profiles for storing color as CMYK and RGB. There is no one end all be all encoding for color. There is RGB, sRGB, Adobe RGB, U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) v2, GRACol, etc.

As a print provider I'd ask what your end goal is. We can talk a bit about Photoshop scripting if you are looking to work with color objects in Adobe Javascript, but if this has to do with design I would lend this caution:The RGB color space provides a wider color gamut (more colors), many photoshop effects are only available while working in RGB, and the RGB filesize is smaller (only storing 3 channels RGB, instead of 4 CMY & K).

If you save a document as CMYK when it goes to the printer device the printer hardware reinterprets the colors anyhow. So it does not benefit you to work in CMYK most of the time.

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I do use PhotoShop, but a google search tells me that this varies by the devices you are using, and is controlled in Edit > Color Settings (Shift+Ctrl+K).

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