[Openicc] CC Profiles In X Specification and dispwin

[Lars Tore Gustavsen]

On 1/16/08, Hal V. Engel <> wrote:

> In spite of how new color management is to open source systems I think that
> there is actually a fairly large number of users relative to the total number
> of users that own various types of measurement devices.  In part this is
> because users of open source systems tend to be more technical than users of
> commercial systems.   Because of this I think it would be possible to
> organize an effort to create a repository for Printer profiles for these
> systems and have a significant pool of volunteers with the equipment needed
> to do the measurement work who could spread the work around.  But it would
> take a significant effort to get this underway.
>
> Hal
> _______________________________________________

Hello lits. I'm a new subscriber to this list and I'm responsible for
the stupid typo in the subject field of this thread.
I'm not a developer. Last year I asked myself what I can do for
helping the open source community with development of better color
management tools. So I played with an idea last year about my own
fundraising project for some of the colormanagmet task that have to be
done in the open source world. Support a tool for linearizing in
gutenprint was at top of that list, and I also planned support the
argyllcms author with instruments and so on.  Buying cheap colormeters
and send them to different open source project was also one option.
Guess what will happen, if let say the main kphotalbum developer gets
a colormeter in the mailbox. And of course there is many other
projects that could need some help.

My plan was to set up a database of generic RGB printer profiles (with
Linux in mind) for free download. If the user was unhappy with the
results from it they could choose to get one done for some money, or
they could just donate as a thanks for the free one. If a user buys a
profile I would so submit it to the generic database, maybe with some
fancy averaging if the ink,printer,driver settings combination already
exist in the database.  I planned to put all the income into open
source tools, except for some administration like webserver and maybe
a backup instrument.

I tested the idea, and offered 10 free RGB printer profiles in the
linux section of a web forum related to photo processing. The interest
was not very big, as I have not reached 10 profiles requests jet,
after a couple of months. So I have actually frozen the idea for a
while.  I guess there could be more interest if the project was more
professionally presented with proper English and nice graphics.
Another thing that worried me was the maybe crossing conflict with the
profiling service provided by the photoprint author. Conflict with
other profiling companies, do not worry me.

I don't know if this project ever will be realized. What do people on
this list think about such an idea? I have no expectation that it
would be possible to hire a full time developer for working with an
linearizing gui with this. But at least supporting with ink,
instruments, printers and so on. But again the results from my test
procject tell me to put the idea in the trashcan. Another worries is
of course, I have only a single eye-one pro, and my spare time is of
course limited, but the situation today is that I use a lot of time
and money anyway trying to take control over the gutenprint
linearizing. I have also a worry about the tax rules here in Norway,
but I have not checked this out jet.

Regards
Lars Tore Gustavsen