accessing the list of available icc-profiles with javascript

In the past, I've given user's a hardwired list of profile names then popped up a file browser to select a .icc or .icm file from disk starting in the ColorSync folder (by default) on the mac and whatever the default is on Windows. Not all profiles work like this, but it's a quick and dirty solution to the problem.

If I were going to give them a list of profiles by proper name, I'd get the profiles I could find on disk and extract the names from them using a function like this:

function getProfileNameFromFile(file) {
  file.encoding = 'BINARY';
  file.open('r');
  var str = file.read();
  file.close();
  var m = str.match(/\x00desc\x00/);
  if (m == null) {
    // if we couldn't find the magic marker, return the base filename
    return file.name.replace(/\.ic(c|m)/i, '');
  }
  var ofs = m.index+12;
  var len = str.charCodeAt(ofs);
  var s = str.substring(ofs+1, ofs+len);
  return s;
};
// Sample usage
function main() {
  var pfolder = "/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Color/Profiles/Recommended";
  var pname = "ProPhoto.icm";
  var profile = new File(pfolder + '/' + pname);
  var name = getProfileNameFromFile(profile);
  alert(pname + ' = ' + name);
};
main();

I'm not sure how general the solution is, but it does work on the subset of profile files that I've tested with.

-X

Im NOT on my Leopard box at the moment so I have NOT looked but in Tiger that Im sat at now Photoshop's ICC Profiles are stored at:

Library/Application Support/Adobe/Color/Profiles

Library/Application Support/Adobe/Color/Profiles/Recommended