On the other hand they had to write a colour management system because MS
didn't have one. Now GIMP developers appear to be doing the same thing,
instead of building it into X where it should be.
Adobe may as well have carried on and written an entire OS for running
Photoshop :)
Cheers,
Actually, as I understand it, the color management is only loosely
a function of the OS. The Winders CM only
1. Tells programs what ICC profile various devices use (such as the
current monitor, printer, etc)
2. Provides the interpolation engine for linking profiles together and
rendering. It's still up to the application as to whether or not it
implements color management.
Under that paradigm, the littleCMS engine under linux is basically
the same thing. X need not be involved, except in the arguable need to
install a custom LUT. Otherwise, all the basic tools are already there
for that.
-Cory
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* Cory Papenfuss *
* Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University *
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