On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 12:42:26PM -0700, David Mosberger-Tang wrote:
> Stephen> ICC Profiles, and their use. This is a significant lack in
> Stephen> GIMP as well.
>
> Are you familiar with this stuff? If so, would you be willing to
> write a proposal on how to add the required support? I think that
> would help a lot of folks on this list better understand what it takes
> to make this happen. I know TWAIN is working on this too, and I
> wouldn't have a problem following the TWAIN approach for color spaces
> where it makes sense (no point in reinventing the wheel).
I am doing some work with ICC profiles. I've implemented a very crude
prototype of a profile2profile plugin for the GIMP.
We have access to a free color management library that I helped to port
from Windows. All we really need is
- a good profiler that makes it easy to create ICC profiles. With
SCARSE at http://www.scarse.coloraid.de) the engine is at least
implemented, but it's missing a GUI.
The author of the iPhoto profiler (http://www.iphoto.coloraid.de) is
considering porting his application to Linux.
- a mechanism in SANE to select the target color space and to apply
the ICC profiles. This should be handled by a service library that
can be used by all backends, so that the backend authors don't have
to deal with the finer points of CM stuff. I alwas wanted to implement
a prototype for the EPSON backend, but never had the time to actually
do it.
- and most important for the long run: A color management system for Linux
so that the management of profiles and the CM engine is no longer the
responsibility of applications like SANE or GIMP, but is handled by a
service module provided by the operating system.
How does this sound?
Karl Heinz
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