[Openicc] Call for help: Review of CM patches for Poppler needed

Graeme Gill graeme at argyllcms.com
Wed Mar 6 16:05:08 PST 2013


Till Kamppeter wrote:
> The only problem is that the Color Management support of Poppler is
> inferior to the color management of Ghostscript.

No surprise there. Artifex has been employing Color Scientist
Michael Vrhel for a number of years to work on that aspect.

> Albert Astals Cid mentioned during the session that there are color
> management patches available for Poppler but as there are no CM experts
> under the Poppler developers the patches did not get reviewed.

You should consider the reverse approach - add the necessary
workarounds for buggy printers to Ghostcript, and take
advantage of its well thought out and engineered color management.

Graeme Gill.



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