[Openicc] mixed colour space documents

Casper Boemann cbr at boemann.dk
Sun Nov 27 03:52:20 PST 2005


On Sunday 27 November 2005 12:52, Kai-Uwe Behrmann wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> during a discussion on the scribus irc channel I was tould Scribus uses a
> late binding colour model. Only on PDF export colours may be converted
> dependent on the PDF type selected. I tried to describe that here:
> <http://www.oyranos.org/wiki/index.php?title=Scribus>
>
> The question is now, do we need further mixed colour space document
> policies selectable in Oyranos or can we simply refer to the way Scribus
> does things regarding mixed colour space documents?
>
> Am 15.09.05, 14:19 +0200 schrieb Jan-Peter Homann:
> > layout and graphics applications:
> > - preserve embedded profiles for placed RGB-files
> > - preserve embedded profiles for placed CMYK-files
> > - preserve CMYK-values for placed CMYK-files
> > - convert all placed files to RGB workingspace
> > - convert all placed files to CMYK workingspace
>
> Other applications like CinePaint, and later possibly Gimp, dont support
> complex colour space layouts. What about the way Krita goes?

In krita we have mixed colorspaces too. Each layer it's own.

On export to screen or print we convert to a single colorspace
-- 
best regards / venlig hilsen
Casper Boemann


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