Well Matt works for Adobe now - so let’s add him and see what he remembers 😉.

Hey @Matt Kuznicki<mailto:[email protected]>...


From: Rob Boehne <[email protected]>
Date: Thursday, September 4, 2025 at 4:43 PM
To: Leonard Rosenthol <[email protected]>, [email protected] 
<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: CMYK->RGB (was Re: [Tiff] 4.7.1 release)


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All,

I want to upstream this change, or alternatively a more complete change, or if 
this change is fundamentally bogus – know how and why.  Our practices have 
changed a lot since this patch was created, and if it’s going to create an 
onerous burden to get it accepted before the 4.7.1 release, we won’t hold it up 
for that.  I’d also prefer to have a test to demonstrate the functionality.

It might take a day or two to identify our test case that corresponds to this 
change, and more time to turn that into something appropriate for the libtiff 
test suite – any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Here is the original comment in the history-

Author: Matthew Kuznicki [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Date:   Fri Apr 6 17:34:11 2001 +0000

    Added support for CMYK TIFF images as unconverted CMYK images, by removing
      the conversion in libtiff for non CMYK->RGB mapped TIFFs.  Clarified
      comments on ICC profiles in CacheTIFF, fixed a late colorspace setting
      in CacheTIFF.

With the original diff in a copy of libtiff ca. 2001


diff --git a/libtiff/tif_getimage.c b/libtiff/tif_getimage.c

index 3439197b4..87dea8147 100644

--- a/libtiff/tif_getimage.c

+++ b/libtiff/tif_getimage.c

@@ -1036,6 +1036,11 @@ DECLAREContigPutFunc(putRGBUAcontig16bittile)

  *

  * NB: The conversion of CMYK->RGB is *very* crude.

  */

+/* MMK: Actually, the conversion has been removed.

+ *   Sends infomation back in CMYK order, unconverted.

+ *   Means we lose support for transparent CMYK TIFF

+ *   images, but how often does one see one of _those_?

+ */

 DECLAREContigPutFunc(putRGBcontig8bitCMYKtile)

 {

     int samplesperpixel = img->samplesperpixel;

@@ -1044,14 +1049,14 @@ DECLAREContigPutFunc(putRGBcontig8bitCMYKtile)

     (void) x; (void) y;

     fromskew *= samplesperpixel;

     while (h-- > 0) {

-       UNROLL8(w, NOP,

-           k = 255 - pp[3];

-           r = (k*(255-pp[0]))/255;

-           g = (k*(255-pp[1]))/255;

-           b = (k*(255-pp[2]))/255;

-           *cp++ = PACK(r, g, b);

+    UNROLL8(w, NOP,

+           pp[0];

+           pp[1];

+           pp[2];

+           pp[3];

+           *cp++ = PACK4(pp[0], pp[1], pp[2], pp[3]);

            pp += samplesperpixel);

-       cp += toskew;

+    cp += toskew;

        pp += fromskew;

     }

 }





From: Leonard Rosenthol <[email protected]>
Date: Thursday, September 4, 2025 at 11:02 AM
To: Rob Boehne <[email protected]>, [email protected] 
<[email protected]>
Subject: CMYK->RGB (was Re: [Tiff] 4.7.1 release)
If I read that PR correctly, you are removing the “Red Book algorithm” for 
CMYK->RGB conversion, but you aren’t replacing it with anything other than just 
passing the values through.  Is that the intent??

Leonard

From: Tiff <[email protected]> on behalf of Rob Boehne via Tiff 
<[email protected]>
Date: Thursday, September 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Tiff] 4.7.1 release

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Even,

We opened a merge request recently that we would like to get in the next 
release.
It implements CMYK to RGB conversion, and we have been patching libtiff with 
this for many years (so we have high confidence in it).
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/merge_requests/751/diffs

I can get any feedback on the MR responded to today – so if there are any other 
potential problems we can get them resolved quickly.

Thanks,

Robert Boehne


From: Tiff <[email protected]> on behalf of Even Rouault via Tiff 
<[email protected]>
Date: Thursday, September 4, 2025 at 8:54 AM
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: [Tiff] 4.7.1 release
Hi,

I see 4.7.0 was released about one year ago. I can issue a 4.7.1
release. Is there anything that should be included in it before?

Even

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