On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 11:43, Karl Heinz Kremer wrote: > On Sunday, July 27, 2003, at 05:00 AM, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > [ ... ] > > > >> On the other side I see that the functionality should be available for > >> any scanner. Why not bringing it in the backend (again, due to lack of > >> programming know how i do not know if possible at all) making it > >> easier > >> for frontend developers to take advantage of it? > > > > The backens should support all the functions the hardware provides. As > > that type of calibration is not a harware feature, I don't think they > > can do anything to help it. Especially if a feature is needed for all > > devices, it's better to put it in the frontend because that means to > > change one (or some) frontends instead of > 50 backends. > > > > The only thing I could think about is that the backend could provide > > the .icm file over the SANE API once that file was generated and > > written to the hard disc. > > There are a couple of ways this can be handled. But regardless of this, > there are two general areas that need to be addressed: > - preview in the frontend > - storing the image data > > For the preview, the color correction has to be done in the frontend, > based > on two ICC profiles: One for the scanner, and one for the display. LCMS > does > also provide a mechanism to profile monitors. And of course, LCMS also > provides the functions to actually apply the profiles. >
> > Karl Heinz > With LCMS profile package you mean the lprof package from littlecms? On http://www.littlecms.com/profilers.htm there are some screen shots of this package. I think it should be nice if this package could be used as a short of plugin package in the sane frontends. But maybe i am wrong? -- ---------- m.vr.gr. Gerard Klaver
