[OpenICC] colour palettes/lists

Kai-Uwe Behrmann ku.b at gmx.de
Sat Sep 17 16:01:34 EST 2005


As the below format is a propriarity one, we shoudl reject it from the 
format canditates for colour list exchange.

regards
Kai-Uwe Behrmann
                                + development for color management 
                                + imaging / panoramas
                                + email: ku.b at gmx.de
                                + http://www.behrmann.name


Am 16.09.05, 19:56 -0700 schrieb 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
> 



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