Intent

Intent.ABSOLUTECOLORIMETRIC

Aims to maintain color accuracy at the expense of preserving relationships between colors and is suitable for proofing to simulate the output of a particular device. This intent is particularly useful for previewing how paper color affects printed colors.

Leaves colors that fall inside the destination gamut unchanged. Out of gamut colors are clipped. No scaling of colors to destination white point is performed.

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Intent.PERCEPTUAL

Gives priority to colors for which the human eye has greater sensitivity.

Suitable for photographic images with a lot of out of gamut colors. This is the standard rendering intent for the Japanese printing industry.

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Intent.RELATIVECOLORIMETRIC

Compares the extreme highlight of the source color space to that of the destination color space and shifts all colors accordingly. Out of gamut colors are shifted to the closest reproducible color in the destination color space.

The standard rendering intent for printing in North America and Europe.

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Intent.SATURATION

Tries to produce vivid colors in an image at the expense of color accuracy.

Suitable for business graphics like graphs or charts, where bright saturated colors are more important than the exact relationship between colors.

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