On Monday 01 August 2005 17:56, Jan-Peter Homann wrote: > Hi Peter, hi list > The following discussion should be moved to the openicc > mailinglist, because it is general point, not only connected with > LCMS. > > PLinnell wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Can anyone point me to a decent freely distributable CMYK > > "generic print" icc profile ? One which we could ship with > > Scribus and perhaps some other OSS apps. The idea is just to > > have the CMS operable right from the start. > > > > The ECI profiles are good, but too large to ship with apps and > > cannot be split up by the license. > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Peter > > -- > > At the opennicc mailinglist was a discussion about > standard-profiles and their locoation in the OSSearch the > mailinglist e.g. for "profile distribution / Adobe / ECI" > > Kai Uwe made an installers according this discussion under: > > > The "ECI Offset2004" package ia available as rpm from: > <http://www.behrmann.name/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id >=34&Itemid=68> > > regards > Kai-Uwe Behrmann > > + http://www.behrmann.name > > > > For an optimal solution, the standard printer-profiles for OSS > applications should be calculated with argyllCMS on the basis of > standard characterization-data: > > CGATS TR001 (SWOP) > FOGRA27 (ISOcoated) > > from http://www.color.org > > > If anybody would be interested to do this, I would give some > recomendations about gamutmapping and blackgeneration. I also would > test the profiles in comparison to Adobe / ECI versions. > > Unfortunatly, i´m not user of the terminal, so I can´t do it by > myself. > > If somebody would write a GUI for argyll-scripting, the > OSS-community could deliver a functionality, which is not available > at Adobe, Quark or other DTP-software vendors: > > Calculating printing profiles from standard-characterization-data > with different black-generation. > > This is nothing for beginners, but it would be really impressive to > professional users, which often asked for this feature in Photoshop > / InDesign. > > :-) Jan-Peter
Hi, 1) A big thanks to Graeme Gill who kindly sent me a profile which will fit this particular need very well. 2) In fits and starts I have shared making some rpms for installing profiles on Linux. I have someone in mind to see about building a debian repo for these too. Thanks, Peter ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Lcms-user mailing list Lcms-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lcms-user
