How to edit icc profile metadata?

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Does anyone know how I can edit an icc profile to change its name?
I have a bunch of display profiles with very similar names, which makes it hard to differentiate them within application menus. I can’t seem to find anything in Argyll for this.
Thanks!

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Did some digging, couldn’t find any program to do this.

You could use a hex editor to change the string in the file, but it would have to be the same length as the original string. Otherwise, the pointers in the file would be invalidated.

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exiftool -ProfileDescription="New Description Name" yourprofile.icc

Try it on a copy…

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exiftool can’t write ICC tags.

$ exiftool -ProfileDescription="foo" foo.icc
Warning: Sorry, ProfileDescription is not writable
Nothing to do.
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I didn’t have time to try it…I think you can do it with iccxml.exe and edit the xml and then use xmlicc to take it back to an icc…but like many of the tools it might be icc v2 only…again I don’t have time to test it but I have done this with something in the past for sure

https://www.color.org/opensource.xalter for the xml utility

…if not this there was another little Windows utility that did it…

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just did a quick search, take a look here it might provide you with a solution

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This worked for me - thanks :+1:

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