[OpenICC] Oyranos APIs update

Lars Borg borg at adobe.com
Fri Sep 30 08:07:38 EST 2005


At 3:58 PM -0600 9/29/05, Chris Murphy wrote:
>But if a format does not allow for the embedding of color space 
>information, by definition the program will not be able to handle 
>such formats as well as formats that do support color space data 
>(either with metadata in the file, or by assumption by specifying a 
>space in the format specification or a combination of the two). 
>Formats that have absolutely no mechanism for color definition 
>either in the file or spec itself demonstrate that they don't take 
>color fidelity seriously.

That might not be a fair description in all cases.
Examples:
Cineon predates ICC, and thus never anticipated hooks for ICC profiles.
OpenEXR supports color management, but uses CTL instead of ICC profiles.

Lars



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