[Openicc] Questions about color pickers and graphics libraries under LINUX

Tim Rowley tor at acm.org
Tue Feb 12 10:53:37 PST 2008


On Feb 12, 2008 12:09 PM, Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com> wrote:
> On Feb 12, 2008, at 12:19 PM, Tim Rowley wrote:
> > Firefox uses lcms to do the color correction for all platforms (rather
> > than ColorSync on OS-X, for example).  Due to this, its color
> > corrected results may be different from other applications.
>
> Aha. Does it ColorSync to grab the current display profile?

Yes, Firefox does its best to obtain the display profile to feed lcms,
using ColorSync on OS-X, ICM on Win32, and _ICC_PROFILE/EDID on X11).

-tor


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