[Openicc] Color management in gimp

[Francisco Bernal Rosso]

That is what I say, Martí. That Lcms the way gimp do color management is not
practical. We need to introduce the code in the core. When I asked how to do
it they say go to the bugs, familiarice with the internal structure and then
some day, if you are a kind person maybe we let you touch in the core...
That is not a practical approach. Maybe suitable for software fans, but not
for people who needs an efficient freeware application. Linux has little to
say in graphics arts, and it seems there is no much intetion to change it. I
would like to say my clients they can use Gimp as productively as they use
photoshop, but when somebody tellme about color managemetn... eh... no, boy,
best do it in photoshop, when a client ask for 16 bits graphic production in
Linux... no, best, do it in your Mac with photoshop.

You can write the translation from a color space to another using the
profiles and the LittleCMS. But somebody has to write down that into the
core.

I do
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Maria, Marti" <marti.maria at hp.com>
To: <openicc at lists.freedesktop.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2005 3:53 PM
Subject: [Openicc] Color management in gimp




Hi Paco,

>I wonder...
>¿How can one program an efficient color management
> solution if cannot insert it in the visualization
> section of the aplication?
>I think littleCMS as a plug-in is not a practical
> solution. It does not serves at all.

Please keep in mind lcms, as most CMM, is only a low-level engine. It can
effectively apply color transforms to a raster data. But it has no access to
devices like monitor, printer and so. It is up to the application software
to use the CMM as a tool to get the correct color translation before sending
data to the output devices.

For a "good" color management in Gimp, lcms should be integrated in the core
program, not only as a plug-in. There is another program, Scribus, that does
that in a pretty successful way:

http://www.scribus.net/

Regards
Marti Maria.

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