2004.08.16 20:55 "[Tiff] Re: ICC profile in tiff file on windows", by Alexander Cohen

Your code that parses TIFF tags and TIFF data types should not be messing with the ICC profile data. Code that works with ICC profiles that run on a Windows platform knows that all the ICC profile is big endian ( like an "MM" TIFF file ) and should do the proper byte swapping for shorts and longs inside the ICC profile code.

BUT: if you try to read a short or long from an ICC profile with Windows code, the bytes will be in the wrong order.

The moral of the story: you might be trying to do something that a Color Management System library should do for you.

Nope, im just reading the ICC profile tag, and taking that data and passing it to the "OpenColorProfile" function in the windows API. The same works on mac (with the mac version of the call).

Alex