On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 16:15:47 -0500 Doug Newgard <scimmi...@outlook.com> said:
> I'm sure some of you have seen the warnings generated by libpng 1.6: "known > incorrect sRGB profile". Now, this is no big deal, it's just a warning, but I > still wanted to look into it further. By my count, there are 800 png files in > Enlightenment, of which only 6 have embedded iCC profiles, all from HP. The > rest are sRGB colorspace, but do not include a profile. There are some good > arguments for this > (http://imageoptim.com/color-profiles.html > http://www.gballard.net/psd/save_for_web_embed_ICC_profile.html) > and since this seems to be the default, I've attached the 6 files with the > profiles stripped out. As you can see, it doesn't change the image or the > colorspace, it just leaves the calibration up to the end user's system. > > I haven't been able to find just what's wrong with the HP iCC profile being > used that the authors of libpng don't like, but it makes sense to standardize > the way profiles are handled anyway. And it has the nice side effect of > silencing warnings, even if the Debian/Ubuntu users aren't likely to see them > for a couple of years. > > I can just change the iCC profile instead if you would prefer. I've seen > multiple people recommend the Argyll sRGB profile, which is still "sRGB > IEC61966-2.1" and is public domain. > > Elementary has a lot more pngs with the HP profile, so once I know for sure > what people would prefer, I'll fix them, too. > > Doug what we need to know is what is adding the hp profile causing the warinig. what tool does it? is it gimp? photoshop? imagemagick? otherwise we go creating warnings again if that tool is used... -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
