[OpenICC] colour palettes/lists

[Jon A. Cruz]

On Sep 16, 2005, at 1:23 PM, Sven Neumann wrote:

> That is true, but last I checked the Photoshop palette file format was
> even more limited than the one that the GIMP authors invented about a
> decade ago. Currently GIMP reads a number of formats:
>
> typedef enum
> {
>   GIMP_PALETTE_FILE_FORMAT_UNKNOWN,
>   GIMP_PALETTE_FILE_FORMAT_GPL,      /* GIMP  
> palette                        */
>   GIMP_PALETTE_FILE_FORMAT_RIFF_PAL, /* RIFF  
> palette                        */
>   GIMP_PALETTE_FILE_FORMAT_ACT,      /* Photoshop binary color  
> palette      */
>   GIMP_PALETTE_FILE_FORMAT_PSP_PAL   /* JASC's Paint Shop Pro color  
> palette */
> } GimpPaletteFileFormat;
>
> All of these are limited to 8bit RGB and thus not of much use.


I was familiar with the old Photoshop format, which is more limited.

However, there's a new format.

ACO is the new color file format, and might be more interesting.

http://www.nomodes.com/aco.html