[OpenICC] Oyranos APIs update

[Chris Murphy]

On Sep 29, 2005, at 4:07 PM, Lars Borg wrote:

> At 3:58 PM -0600 9/29/05, Chris Murphy wrote:
>
>> But if a format does not allow for the embedding of color space  
>> information, by definition the program will not be able to handle  
>> such formats as well as formats that do support color space data  
>> (either with metadata in the file, or by assumption by specifying  
>> a space in the format specification or a combination of the two).  
>> Formats that have absolutely no mechanism for color definition  
>> either in the file or spec itself demonstrate that they don't take  
>> color fidelity seriously.
>>
>
> That might not be a fair description in all cases.
> Examples:
> Cineon predates ICC, and thus never anticipated hooks for ICC  
> profiles.
> OpenEXR supports color management, but uses CTL instead of ICC  
> profiles.

When I say "mechanism for color definition" I don't mean only ICC  
profiles. Regardless, they should use something rather than nothing.


Chris Murphy
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