On Sat, 22 May 2004, Hal V. Engel wrote: > I have been seriously considering moving to Linux but find myself > stymied by the primitive state of color management support. Both at > the system level and in the image acquisition, editing and printing > tools.
You have hit the nail on the head. We are planning to add automated color management (much as you describe) to GraphicsMagick (http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/) but GraphicsMagick is primarily a batch processing and programming/scripting environment rather than an interactive editing environment like GIMP and Photoshop. Since LCMS is readily available under an excellent license, there is no good reason for open source packages to not support automated color management. It seems quite possible for open source packages to support a common model. For GraphicsMagick we intend to configure color managment via an XML file. It would be useful if the content of this file could be common across open source applications so that configuring in one place ensures similar results in GIMP, GraphicsMagick, and other image processing tools. As far as color management in X11 goes, from what I have seen, in Microsoft Windows CMS support for the display is a function of the video device driver rather than Windows itself. Some Unix system vendors handle this via the display hardware. If X11 does not handle it, then the application itself must handle it. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3149&alloc_id=8166&op=click _______________________________________________ Lcms-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lcms-user
