[Openicc] Anncouncement LPROF 1.10 released

[Hal V. Engel]

On August 15, 2005 the LPROF project was created in SourceForge.net. This 
project will continue the work started by Marti Maria, the author of lcms, on 
the Little CMS Profiler. 
 
LPROF is the only open source ICC profiler with a graphical user interface. It 
can be used to create profiles for cameras, scanners and monitors.  As such 
it fills a necessary niche in the emerging open source color management 
effort.  

On August 23 LPROF-1.10 became available on SourceForge,net 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/lprof . This is basically a maintenance 
release of lprof-1.09 which has been available in many Linux distros.

The updated version has had the following changes: 
 
1. Updated build system. It has not been autotoolized yet. But it now installs 
and un-installs cleanly.   Most of the work on the cleaned up make files was 
done by Craig Ringer.
 
2. The Mark Rubin patches are now included. No need to patch the code anymore. 
 
3. It now supports tiff files in the measurement tool for IT8.7 images. 
 
4. Misc code and documentation cleanup and a few minor bug fixes.

There are more improvements planned for LPROF in the future and much work 
remains to be done.  Anyone interested in contributing to the effort should 
feel free to contact me or any others working on the project.   Any and all 
help is greatly appreciated. 

Hal Engel