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ICC Technical Note 02-2001 Creating ICC profiles from PDF color spaces

Last updated: February 2001 (v1.0)
Specification covered by this Technical Note: ICC.1 (v4)

Adobe Acrobat 5 creates ICC profiles from PDF color spaces as follows:

  • The CalRGB colorant values are chromatically adjusted using a Bradford chromatic adaptation matrix transforming from the white point of the PDF color space to D50. No other chromatic adaptation is done.

  • The MediaWhitePoint tag is set to the white point of the PDF color space.

  • The MediaBlackPoint tag is set to the black point of the PDF color space.

All other mandatory tags are created in obvious ways following the ICC specification of 1998.

ICC Technical Note 01-2003 (v 1.0) Creating ICC profiles from PDF color spaces. Franklin, TN: International Color Consortium, 2003