[CREATE] colour lists; in Oyranos?

Kai-Uwe Behrmann ku.b at gmx.de
Thu Sep 15 15:35:50 PDT 2005


Am 15.09.05, 23:39 +0200 schrieb Craig Bradney:

> On Thursday 15 September 2005 23:31, Kai-Uwe Behrmann wrote:
 
> > And thus the above sRGB profile is not from HP but from from Marti.
> 
> If thats the case, then we need one with a different copyright license. As it 
> stands now, its not "free".

You can ask him on the lcms or OpenICC email list.
 
> > Marti added an profile creator function and sRGB is allways present even
> > if not on disk ;-).
> 
> If thats the case, and the sRGB profile creation code is GPL, then do you have 
> a link? Right now, we need this code, as we need the profile.

<www.lilltecms.com> The function is called cmsCreate_sRGBProfile(). 
Should be pretty easy to use for Scribus :-) 

> > An application needs allways to check if there is the desired profile
> > available and react if not -> create the sRGB.
> >
> > This matter is not only limited to this special profile.
> >
> > As well what does you think, should Oyranos check for sRGB and eventually
> > create sRGB on startup?
> 
> Yes, for sure. When will Oyranos start to get into the distros? We are 
> starting to need these functions, and either we duplicate the code, or do an 
> "OpenOffice.org" and embed the current functions until Oyranos is.

I think the API must be clear first. And a discussion like the one here 
helps. What I can do is to split stable considered APIs into an alpha
version.

regards
Kai-Uwe Behrmann
                                + development for color management 
                                + imaging / panoramas
                                + email: ku.b at gmx.de
                                + http://www.behrmann.name



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