Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP won't quit

2011-03-02 Thread Graeme Gill
with the desktop on MSWin (and OS X and Linux). There's nothing special about it - any normal command line main() program with stdin/out/err can create windows by calling CreateWindow(). Graeme Gill. ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP won't quit

2011-03-02 Thread Graeme Gill
/stdout. You can use stdio from a WinMain application if you: AttachConsole(ATTACH_PARENT_PROCESS); freopen(CONOUT$,wb,stdout); etc. so that it runs without a console normally, but uses one if launched from the command line. Graeme Gill

Re: [Gimp-developer] distributing gimp with another program

2010-11-21 Thread Graeme Gill
a lot like is has some dependence on the GPL code. If there is functional dependence, then the mere aggregation on the same media escape clause wouldn't seem to apply. Graeme Gill. ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU

Re: [Gimp-developer] distributing gimp with another program

2010-11-21 Thread Graeme Gill
, that this is not mere aggregation), then you need to make sure that the package meets the GPL licensing conditions. Graeme Gill. ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer

Re: [Gimp-developer] distributing gimp with another program

2010-11-21 Thread Graeme Gill
Ofnuts wrote: Then everything written for Linux would have to be GPL because it has functional dependence on GPL code? IMI, only if it is shipped as a package, and doesn't fall into the Linux exception clause. (The Linux exception clause draws a line between kernel and user processes.) Graeme

Re: [Gimp-developer] LAB in Info Window

2010-10-21 Thread Graeme Gill
, but in the first instance you can ignore all of that and have the user select the profiles manually. Retrieving the display profiles automatically would be nice though, and there is code around to do this on various platforms (I've certainly written some under GPL for MSWin, OS X and Linux). Graeme Gill

Re: [Gimp-developer] Lab conversion, GEGL, RGB space, Illuminant

2010-08-13 Thread Graeme Gill
to handle the white point adaptation to these spaces though, although this is only of relevance in specialised applications where absolute XYZ is required. Graeme Gill. ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https

Re: [Gimp-developer] Lab conversion, GEGL, RGB space, Illuminant

2010-08-13 Thread Graeme Gill
James Cox wrote: Converting to/from synthetic color spaces like sRgb and AdobeRGB will be lossless aside from very minor numerical rounding issues. Note that this is not true if you exceed the gamut of these two spaces, and the resulting device values are clipped to the range 0 - 1. Graeme

Re: [Gimp-developer] Lab conversion, GEGL, RGB space, Illuminant

2010-08-12 Thread Graeme Gill
complexity, a properly ICC based color managed system would allow the RGB to L*a*b* conversion to choose the conversion intent, and might declare the Lab space to be ICC PCS L*a*b*, which will have a fixed D50 white reference.] Graeme Gill. ___ Gimp

Re: [Gimp-developer] Lab conversion, GEGL, RGB space, Illuminant

2010-08-12 Thread Graeme Gill
transformations.) Graeme Gill. ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer

Re: [Gimp-developer] Lab conversion, GEGL, RGB space, Illuminant

2010-08-12 Thread Graeme Gill
. Graeme Gill. ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer

Re: [Gimp-developer] Lab conversion, GEGL, RGB space, Illuminant

2010-08-12 Thread Graeme Gill
space and stick with it. This is possible with floating point processing (GEGL). was kind of ambiguous, and I took it to mean single device dependent color space ... If you actually mean single device independent color space.. then of course my comment doesn't apply. Graeme Gill

Re: [Gimp-developer] Lab conversion, GEGL, RGB space, Illuminant

2010-08-12 Thread Graeme Gill
color space. You'll just confuse and mislead anyone who knows what that's meant to be. Graeme Gill. ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP distributing sRGB profiles: license issues?

2010-03-15 Thread Graeme Gill
yahvuu wrote: Graeme Gill wrote: The bottom line is that it depends on your purpose. If you have a particular reason to specify device dependent colors, then you deliberately don't want to tag the file with a profile. This case worries me a bit. Hope you can enlighten me what the best

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP distributing sRGB profiles: license issues?

2010-03-09 Thread Graeme Gill
(although it certainly might be; thoughts, Graeme?). It's probably sufficient for basic sRGB functionality, but it's not complete in the formal sense (ie. missing information tags as to viewing conditions etc., that some CMM's may use.) Graeme Gill. ___ Gimp

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP distributing sRGB profiles: license issues?

2010-03-09 Thread Graeme Gill
the small images on his website are 35k, so 3k for an sRGB profile is about 8% - hardly noticeable. The moves to use URL references is one aimed at reducing the overhead, but I wonder if it is worth the trouble and breakage it will cause. Graeme Gill

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP distributing sRGB profiles: license issues?

2010-03-04 Thread Graeme Gill
mentioned before, the sRGB profile provided in Argyll is public domain. Graeme Gill. ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer

Re: [Gimp-developer] Color management dataflow [was: Color management (UI perspective for GIMP 2.8)]

2010-02-13 Thread Graeme Gill
not a 3x3 matrix transform either.) Graeme Gill. ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer

Re: [Gimp-developer] Color management dataflow [was: Color management (UI perspective for GIMP 2.8)]

2010-02-13 Thread Graeme Gill
editor that compresses the gamut of the source so that a very large gamut image can be viewed on a limited gamut display without loosing the ability to be able to see all its color variations. Naturally it will look a lot duller than it will when displayed on the intended device. Graeme Gill

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP color-management spec and further discussion

2010-02-08 Thread Graeme Gill
with AdobeRGB ? I've certainly made one available under the public domain (ClayRGB1998.icm). Graeme Gill. ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP color-management spec and further discussion

2010-02-08 Thread Graeme Gill
if they could swap it in somehow. Of course, the importance of this depends on your answers to my questions above. Any real or actual AdobeRGB profile is (of course) Copyright by Adobe. How is that useful to you ? (Why don't you simply look at them side by side first ?) Graeme Gill

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP color-management spec and further discussion

2010-02-07 Thread Graeme Gill
workflows 2) Allow flexibility to accommodate particular needs. Graeme Gill. ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer

Re: [Gimp-developer] Would single-window fix usability nightmares?

2009-10-25 Thread Graeme Gill
are being unhelpful, or worse, trying to injure them. Do you expect them to say nothing ? [ I'm not sure your analogy is helpful, as I suspect it is culturally specific.] Graeme Gill. ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU

Re: [Gimp-developer] Would single-window fix usability nightmares?

2009-10-22 Thread Graeme Gill
unhelpful is a confrontational stance that gets peoples backs up, and convinces them that you are not to be trusted, since you seem to have no empathy for their situation, and seem to have no pride in what you do. ] Graeme Gill. ___ Gimp-developer

Re: [Gimp-developer] open/save/export

2009-06-25 Thread Graeme Gill
apps, all apps. Since Open/Edit/Save is the dominant paradigm, any application that works in a different way is going to be the odd one out, and will drive users insane. Graeme Gill. ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU

Re: [Gimp-developer] open/save/export

2009-06-11 Thread Graeme Gill
- ie. it should be possible to save a file without additional warnings to any format that is capable of representing all actually used elements. Graeme Gill. ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https

Re: [Gimp-developer] open/save/export

2009-06-11 Thread Graeme Gill
Simon Budig wrote: Graeme Gill (grae...@argyllcms.com) wrote: If they've not actually added any of those elements, then it is actually just a jpg - ie. it should be possible to save a file without additional warnings to any format that is capable of representing all actually used elements

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP PDF export plugin

2009-03-30 Thread Graeme Gill
Andrew A. Gill wrote: As little as I trust Pantone to CMYK, I trust Pantone to RGB even less. Actually, Pantone to Spectral to L*a*b* to device space (RGB/CMYK whatever) is pretty good. Graeme Gill. ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer

Re: [Gimp-developer] digested: printing presses, cmyk, tiff + pdf...

2009-03-30 Thread Graeme Gill
likely to have distinct edges, while visible contrast is critical to the perceived image quality. Graeme Gill. ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer

Re: [Gimp-developer] Dockable Dialogs Should be Dockable Everywhere

2009-03-26 Thread Graeme Gill
in this book are completely clouded by the outright mistakes and predudice it containts. It is little more than a rant in itself. Graeme Gill. ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP PDF export plugin

2009-03-25 Thread Graeme Gill
manipulation capabilities ] Graeme Gill. ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP PDF export plugin

2009-03-25 Thread Graeme Gill
/Add non-image elements in CMYK. Convert to RGB for soft preview. Print the CMYK. Although there are other more complicated ones, including late binding (separating for the particular output device after layout/composition). Graeme Gill. ___ Gimp

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP PDF export plugin

2009-03-23 Thread Graeme Gill
, then there (ideally) shouldn't be any limitation on the number of channels or colorspaces supported by an editing program. Graeme Gill. ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp

Re: [Gimp-developer] Downscaling quality.

2007-08-09 Thread Graeme Gill
of the scaled pyramid. I'd suggest having a read of Graphics Gems I, page 147, Filters For Common Resampling Tasks by Ken Turkowski. Box and tent filters are easy to implement, but not necessarily the best choices... Graeme Gill. ___ Gimp-developer

Re: [Gimp-developer] Downscaling quality.

2007-08-09 Thread Graeme Gill
. Of course if near enough is good enough, then a box filter will work acceptably. Graeme Gill. ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer

Re: [Gimp-developer] jpeg quality factor.

2007-07-10 Thread Graeme Gill
when the original file is a JPEG could be seen as poor application behaviour, since it is contradicting the users implicit preferences. Graeme Gill. ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU

Re: [Gimp-developer] jpeg quality factor.

2007-07-09 Thread Graeme Gill
tables exactly match the JPEG standard's sample tables scaled in libjpeg's manner with said factor). Why try and merely match the tables ? Use them by default. Only replace them if the user changes quality settings. Graeme Gill. ___ Gimp-developer mailing

Re: [Gimp-developer] jpeg quality factor.

2007-07-08 Thread Graeme Gill
of surprise when they casually open/modify/save a JPEG file. Graeme Gill. ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer

Re: [Gimp-developer] CMYK palette info from Photoshop

2007-03-31 Thread Graeme Gill
to Gimp, something I presume has a different bug/freature tracking number :-) Perhaps you're best just leaving such colors out of the palette ?? Graeme Gill. ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU