Frédéric, that looks to be just what I need :-)-Eric.

2008/6/4 Frédéric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

>
> Le 4/6/2008, "Eric Clack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit:
>
> > My knowledge is very limited when it comes to colour profiles, so I might
> be
> > describing something that is impossible here, but isn't the colour
> profile
> > information just a tag, or piece of metadata that I could copy from image
> to
> > image?
>
> In most cases, the profile is embedded. I don't now exactly where, but
> the current PIL version (1.1.6) does not read/write it. It is not stored
> in the EXIF table.
>
> If the profile is not embedded, the image is maybe just tagged (in the
> EXIF table), but currently, only sRGB as a standard definition there
> (even if more and more programs use AdobeRGB1998 too, it is not yet a
> standard).
>
> If you want to copy/paste profiles, use exiftool:
>
> $ exiftool -icc_profile -b -o profile.dat <image1>
> $ exiftool -icc_profile\<=profile.dat <image2>
>
> Also note that not all image format can embedded a profile (jpeg, tiff
> and pdf can).
>



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