Adobe ACROBAT READER 4.0 - MANUAL 2 Manual page 53

Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 4.0
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Images can be edited in a device-independent color space which is larger
than the color space of the output device, such as a computer monitor, a TV
screen, film, or a four-color press. Images can then be saved with profiles that
contain information describing the characteristics of the source and output
color devices.
This makes a color-managed workflow advantageous. The images become
portable since they can be displayed on widely differing devices simply by
tagging the images with different output profiles.