> Oh, it is possible, but I seriously doubt you were using anything
> particularly close to a commonly-available X Server. Probably running
> Matrox cards with proprietary X Servers (which would be necessary to
> get colour management in X) or possibly a commercial X distribution in
> its entirety. I'm primarily speaking about any base Linux distro
> running stock X servers.
>
Maybe so on the proprietary X-server, but regular xorg and xfree86
support color management. About the only thing the OS needs to do is load
the VGCT gamma ramp... there are utilities that will do that in X...
*with* multiple heads. The other bits of color management are simply
providing a means to reference a specific one at the application level. X
doesn't support that, but the applications that support color management
(like Cinepaint) do. With that, you can soft-proof for you printer on
your calibrated monitor, etc. It's tedious, but not a whole lot moreso
than just the need to understand profiles and what they do (and *don't*)
mean.
-Cory
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* Cory Papenfuss, Ph.D., PPSEL-IA *
* Electrical Engineering *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University *
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