[CREATE] best practices of 3rd party data embedding

[Alexandre Prokoudine]

On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Chris Lilley wrote:

> AP> Corel DRAW embeds ICC profiles to CDR files to map colors to.
> AP> Conceptually it's pretty much what SVG does with the whole icc-color
> AP> thing. So *technically* it's possible to extract embedded ICC profiles
> AP> and re-embed them to an output SVG file, then map all colors via
> AP> icc-color accordingly *.
>
> That would be the preferred solution, assuming the profiles CDR uses are valid and sensible.

OK

(Personally that's what I think too)

> AP> But how does it look like from legal standpoint? Should embedding be
> AP> opt-in? Or should there be some API for annoying users with a legal
> AP> question they probably wouldn't care to answer?
>
> I think there is something in the ICC header about embedability vs. standalone use of the profile.

Aha, thanks. I googled a bit, and it looks like you are referring to
uFlags. Thanks!

Alexandre Prokoudine
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