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When you choose to view Onscreen Proofing in Aperture, you can select from a list of available profiles. In my environment, this selection list seems to be sorted in some random order (or not sorted at all). Is there any way to sort this list alphabetically (as is the list of printer profiles you can select when printing)?
Cheers,
Greg.
iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.7)
Has anyone figure this out? I have the same issue, and I spend lots of time going up and down a long list of profiles trying to find the one I am looking for. I know this worked well until Aperture 2. I think it was with the upgrade to Aperture 3 that mine stopped working. Any insight would be gladly appreciate it!
Adding my voice to the pile. There must be a way to do this. My profile list is so long and so random it's word salad. It takes me minutes to find profiles i *know* are there but can't find in the random pile of profiles.
I just spent the afternoon with the colorsync utility going through and adding details to profiles that were missing info in the UniCode Name and Mac Script Name fields of the icc profiles, thought I had the solution for a moment but no...
I have discovered how to change the display name of the profiles and that the order Aperture lists the profiles makes no sense, it is not alphabetical, it is not numerical, it is not file name based, it is not file location based, it is not when the file was created, modified or used.
Apple Preview application and Photoshop on the other hand do sort the profiles logically.
List from Apple Preview
even if the numbers need to be 001, 002, 003 etc rather than just 1,2,3.
So it has to be asked why is it that Preview is able to sort icc profiles, yet Aperture is not.
Tony
It is actually even more frustrating. If you go to print a photo, in the print dialog box there is the pull down menu for selecting the output profile. Which has all the profiles nicely ordered alphabetically. Parts of Aperture know how to sort this correctly but sadly not the View Profile menu.
rob
How to Sort Proofing Profile List
