[OpenICC] Oyranos APIs update

[Chris Murphy]

On Sep 28, 2005, at 1:55 PM, Kai-Uwe Behrmann wrote:

> Tagging is nice for single images, like for single stills, but a  
> waste for
> thousand of images. As well heterogenous colour management will  
> allways
> be. There are reasons not to use ICC style CM, even if we wish here  
> to do
> our best to support it.

Tagging doesn't necessarily mean fully embedding an ICC profile. A  
simple matrix profile will barely take up 2k of space. But even if  
that's too much, there needs to be an agreed upon mechanism for  
supporting color space information, if only by proxy. So either the  
format is open to more than one color space, in which case it needs  
to have a mechanism to define the space used; or the format is closed  
and defines a single supported color space.

If people are unwilling to do this, then by definition the format  
isn't taking color seriously, and trying to second guess that outside  
of the specifications process for that format is probably a complete  
waste of time.


Chris Murphy
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