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[mattbeals]

With either tool you can ask it to find specific profiles and create a condition that says "if you find US Web Coated SWOP then apply "SWOP to ISO Coated" (or what ever device link you want)". To be "more correct" you would ask for specific obkject types, such as images, and apply an appropriate dlp. You would have to create a series of these to have the correct conversion applied. If the embedded OI or one of the embedded profiles did NOT match a condition then nothing would happen unless you tell the configuration what to do for any other ICC or non ICC space.

With Callas it is more friendly to build this specific kind of logic. PitStop has very powerful logic in the action lists but that power comes at a somewhat steep price for most people. If you just want to blast the document indiscriminently then PitStop makes it super easy. Callas has prebuilt logic for applying one dlp to specific object types. You can select images, non-images (something to that affect) and everything. To do the "dynamic" dlp application in Callas you need to build the logic first as an "inspect" function, the build the processing logic based on the selection logic. Much easier than it sounds, it really is. PitStop is more difficult.

I'm working on getting Callas to build the dlp's on the fly based on the OI, then the embedded profiles, the assumed profiles. The tools are pretty much there already with Callas. With a few interface tweaks you could do some customization. The reason I want to go this way is that most of the predefined dlp's aren't very applicable to the majority of end users. Now the bundled slp's are very high quality,but again they don't mean much to the average user. To get the "dynamic" profiles in pdfToolbox we will most likely sacrifice some flexibility in terms of tweaking the profiles before hand. But the overall impact will be greater in general I think because the barriers for adoption will be lower. And if you do have situations where you need to use a well crafted dlp then you still have the ability to do so in the base product as well as in PitStop.

Again, these would not have all the logic and power of Alwan. But it might be that happy medium that general users want (and need) without the high end price (or high end features) of a true color server like Alwan and other similar products.

What do you think?