On Sat, 22 Jun 2013 14:12:44 +1000 David Seikel <[email protected]> said:

> On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 22:39:19 -0500 Doug Newgard <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
> > ----------------------------------------
> > > Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 10:44:15 +0900
> > > From: [email protected]
> > > To: [email protected]
> > > CC: [email protected]
> > > Subject: Re: [E-devel] Enlightenment pngs with embedded iCC profiles
> > >
> > > On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 16:15:47 -0500 Doug Newgard
> > > <[email protected]> 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...
> > 
> > That's a good question. On my machine, GIMP refuses to even export
> > the image with the HP profile, so I doubt that's it unless that's
> > because of libpng 1.6. I do know that the HP profile is not included
> > with GIMP, only their built-in profile which is used for display, it
> > does not get embedded into images. I did find some information about
> > the HP profile in relation to Photoshop, but others said that it
> > didn't come with Photoshop and suggested it may have been included
> > with printer/scanner software. I did find that Photoshop does not
> > embed a profile by default when exporting PNGs. As far as I can tell,
> > Imagemagick doesn't include any iCC profiles, so that can't be it,
> > either. On my system, I have profiles from Colord, Argyll, Oyranos,
> > and Yamma, and none of them include the problem profile. Where this
> > profile came from is sitll a bit of a mystery to me.
> 
> Look at the SVN / git history for the images with that HP profile.
> That at least will tell you WHO added them.  Than ask that person
> what they used to make them / last used to massage them / where they got
> them from.

given the images... one i know i created years ago with gimp. others i think
came from manowarrior (he did his work with inskacpe and/or photoshop and
illustrator?)

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