[Openicc] GoSoC 2011: CPD and Color Management

[Jan-Peter Homann]

Hello all,
I´m happy to hear that the proposal was accepted. I plan to help where I 
can. I read the proposal and the links provided by Till.
One central point to solve is the association of a driver setup with an 
ICC-profile. A very smart approach to this task was already discussed in 
the list is as following:
- All necessary informations to setup the driver are encoded in the 
profile incl. e.g.
- per channel ink limiting
- per channel calibration curves
- resolution
- rasterization
...

This allows an easy exchange of profiles between users and secures, that 
driver setting and profile will match after the profile is imported.

 From the GUI, the profile chooser will be the center for all color 
relevant options.

During profile generation we need a communication layer between the 
driver (e.g. Gutenprint) and the profile generation software (e.g. 
ArgyllCMS). This communication layer pulls the driver setup, wich was 
active during printing the testchart and writes the information into the 
profile.

I would prefer a solution, which would be independent both from drivers 
and profiling solutions, so that it could be e.g. implemented into 
Oyranos or g-c-m with may be Gutenprint and ArgyllCMS being the first 
solutions to support it. Even if the profiling solution would not 
support it directly, such information could easily integrated into every 
ICC-profile afterwards through Oyranos or g-c-m.

The main question for prototyping would be to find a first driver 
developer who will be able to support the project:

Robert:
Do You think Gutenprint would support such a project ?
If yes, what will be a timeframe for Gutenprint being able to import a 
complete setup with one file ?

Anne:
Do you think, that the ICC automated workflow group would support the 
project with an outlook to be an official applied ICC tag ?

Best regards
Jan-Peter






Am 28.04.11 20:24, schrieb Till Kamppeter:
> Hi Joseph,
>
> Congratulations for the acceptance of your proposal for the Google 
> Summer of Code 2011.
>
> I am Till Kamppeter, leader of the OpenPrinting project.
>
> Perhaps you have already heard that at OpenPrinting we are stuck with 
> the work on the Common Printing Dialog due to lack of funding. So your 
> work will perhaps be rather made use of for already existing printing 
> dialogs. But anyway, I recommend using the design originally suggested 
> for the Common Printing Dialog, as described here:
>
> http://wiki.openusability.org/wiki/printing/index.php/Photo_printers_parameter_specifications#Color_Management_and_the_CPD 
>
>
> Once, this makes it easier to get your code into the CPD later and 
> also it is a design worked out by UI experts from OpenUsability.
>
> See also
>
> http://www.openprinting.org/
> https://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting/commonprintingdialog 
>
>
> In case of questions regarding UI design you can also use the 
> #openprinting IRC channel on irc.linuxfoundation.org and get in 
> contact with Peter Sikking ("guiguru") or you mail him: peter at 
> mmiworks dot net.
>
> All the best for your work this summer.
>
>    Till
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