Ciao Pedro,
sorry for the delay but I first had to build AOO, just to be
re-acquainted with it
On 05/01/2012 04:32 PM, Pedro Giffuni wrote:
Benvenuto Giuseppe!
On 05/01/12 06:25, Giuseppe Castagno wrote:
Hi there,
a few words to introduce myself.
My name is Giuseppe Castagno, I live in very small town near Turin,
Italy.
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Wow.. and I have to say that I was thinking just yesterday how
good it would be to have *you* around ;).
I am relatively new to the project but I started with some code
you wrote. I did some small changes to the icc module, mostly to
change the license to Apache License 2, since using copyleft for
the icc profile is simply a bad idea.
I have a wishlist for that module:
1 - We need to update SampleICC: the original version is just too
old and is not available online anymore. Maybe the SampleICC
developers may be interested in having the ICC profile as a
contributed sample.
I think this is the current:
http://www.color.org/sampleicc.xalter
It moved to 1.6.4, but I don't know if the color profile we need
changed, for this we need to have a look at the relevant PDF/A ISO Norms
(was ISO 19005-1:2005 plus ISO 19005-1:2005/Cor.1:2007(E)).
A quick look at the ISO web tells me nothing changed wrt PDF/A-1[ab]
That is: if the color profile didn't change I don't think there's a need
to update it.
2- We don't really need to have the icc profile built every time and
we don't have the silly limitations imposed by the GPL so I
was thinking of moving the icc profile generation out of the build
(maybe to tools) and have the generated profile directly in vcl.
I agree, though I'm not sure how to implement it ATM.
3- It would be great if people could download and use the
Adobe profile as an alternative (the stax module gives a similar
option).
mm, this can be changed, putting the color profile in configuration and
giving the possibility to add a new one in some way (adding through an
extension mechanism may be?), or do you have something else in mind?
Of course changes to vcl and/or standard configuration may be needed,
because currently the sRGB profile is hard-coded into vcl.
Just some free-running ideas, though.
If you feel like working on any of that do let me know and I
will help review/commit it. Also, while not strictly mandatory,
you are welcome to submit an iCLA:
http://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.pdf
It's not as demanding as the previous SUN agreement but
it is important if you want to become a committer later on.
submitted to the mail address show in the ICLA itself.
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Kind Regards,
Giuseppe Castagno
Acca Esse http://www.acca-esse.eu
giuseppe.castagno at acca-esse.eu
