Monitor color calibration / profie (Was: Re: [Openicc] google SoC starts)

[Lars Borg]

In case you can't profile the display, can you get access to the EDID info?

Lars

At 12:43 AM -0500 2/18/07, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
>Lars Borg wrote:
>>  Well, technically that wouldn't require a separate CMM.
>>  Adobe Reader on Linux already includes color management for document to
>>  RGB  conversions.
>>  Sadly, it doesn't know from where to get the monitor profile.
>>  Is there still no single standard for how to get it on Linux?
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>Touché.
>The Gnome wiki has a few bits of a spec to do that:
>  http://live.gnome.org/ColourManagement
>Linking to:
>  http://burtonini.com/computing/x-icc-profiles-spec-0.1.html
>I think we should go forward and make a real proposal around this
>specification/idea and have it approved/implemented by the various
>Desktop and blessed by Xorg.
>I see some known names on the above spec.
>
>There are still issues about what can be used to calibrate the screen
>under Linux. Maybe people here know more, I haven't really dug into the
>solution. (I'm talking about Linux supported hardware)
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>Hub