Am 27.08.2017 um 21:49 schrieb Pablo Rodriguez: > On 08/27/2017 08:23 PM, Peter Rolf wrote: >> Am 27.08.2017 um 19:24 schrieb Pablo Rodriguez: >>> [...] >>> Since we have ICC profiles in the ConTeXt Garden >>> (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/PDFX#ICC_profiles, >>> http://dl.contextgarden.net/misc/iccprofiles/complete_ICC_profiles.zip), >>> I wonder why they aren’t part of the ConTeXt Suite. >> >> Because they are hardly used (simply judging from feedback). Not enough >> to justify a file size increase of 26.2 MByte. > > Hi Peter, > > how about limiting the number of profiles to the basic ones? Or how > about an option in first-setup.sh named --icc-profiles? >
Different locations need different profiles. That's why there are also the region related archives (Europe, India, Japan and USA). You can't divide it any further than that. >> In theory you can use the environment variable $OSCOLORDIR, but it was >> dropped years ago. There were no complains or error reports about that, >> so no changes were made. > > Either I don’t get your point, or $OSCOLORDIR won’t work in practice. > Exactly, it doesn't work. It's still mentioned in the partly outdated information on the garden, but there is no 'OSCOLORDIR' string anywhere in the context tree. >> Would still be the cleanest solution though. Copy the icc files once in >> the corresponding directory of your OS (so that all apps can make use of >> them), set the environment variable manually, and done. > > I would have to do that with thirty computers. And probably I would have > to ask for permissions to copy the profiles (and set system-wide > environment variables). When a computer would have a full OS reinstall > (something far beyond my control), I would have to do that again for > that computer. > > As far as I maintain ConTeXt in a common server and we use it for very > specific tasks, we only have the ConTeXt Suite installed once. > > Sorry, but this isn’t practical for me (we’d only use the profiles with > ConTeXt). > I see. Still no love for 'OSCOLORDIR'. R.I.P. :D > Many thanks for your help, > No problem, you are welcome. Looks to me like you are solving the problem by yourself. I guess a module is a good idea. > Pablo > Peter ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
