livecode changes image colors without being asked to do it

panagiotis merakos merakosp at gmail.com
Wed Aug 30 10:07:58 EDT 2017


@Robert which LiveCode version are you using?

CMYK images should display correctly if you are using LC >=8.1.3:

https://github.com/livecode/livecode/pull/4950

Best,
Panos
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On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 3:03 PM, Sean Cole (Pi) via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Hi Robert,
>
> This is likely down to the colour space the images are embedded with.
> Preview will respect the colour space whereas LC will not in some cases.
> Make sure the jpg is saved with the sRGB (IEC61966-2.1) profile to maintain
> the correct colour. And make sure it's not CMYK.
>
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> On 30 August 2017 at 14:03, Mike Bonner via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
> > Not sure if it will make a difference, but you might want to-- set the
> > resizequality of the img "imagename"  to "best"
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 6:54 AM, Robert Brenstein via use-livecode <
> > use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I have a stack that dynamically sets the image that is displayed on a
> > card
> > > using
> > >
> > >         set the filename of img vImageName of stack vStackName to
> > vFilePath
> > >
> > > I just encountered a problem with a new batch of jpeg files. Their
> colors
> > > change when they are displayed in the stack. I mean that when I open
> them
> > > in Preview, the color saturation and hue are different than when
> viewing
> > > the same pic in a stack.
> > >
> > > Anything I can do to avoid that or anything I can tell the graphics
> > person
> > > to do differently when producing those files in AI?
> > >
> > > RObert
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