[Openicc] Querry about ICC Platform Signature

[Kai-Uwe Behrmann]

Hello,

Am 26.05.09, 12:43 -0600 schrieb Max Derhak:
> I believe that this header field was originally intended to be used to
> allow the profile to identify the specific CMM on a specific platform
> that the profile was ideally suited for (i.e. for the specific purpose
> of processing private tags correctly).  Since private tags void any
> sense of interoperability this use has fell somewhat into disfavor.

Agreed, interoperability of colour is our main goal of using the ICC 
standard.

> The question for the OpenICC community is does it make sense to have a
> platform signature for the openIcc/Linux architecture, and would this
> architecture be inclined to use the platform+cmm ICC header signatures
> to select the "correct" cmm for applying profiles based upon this
> information in the profile headers?

At the moment a wide spread open source CMM framework is missed.

Even though I am working on such within Oyranos, it is alpha state for 
that part. The current idea for Oyranos is to have a user preference for a 
CMM or use the default one, which will most probably be littleCMS. 
Applications are able to override that and use own preferences.


best regards
Kai-Uwe Behrmann
-- 
developing for colour management 
www.behrmann.name + www.oyranos.org