[Openicc] Devicelink profiles and accompanying metadata

[Kai-Uwe Behrmann]

Am 05.04.10, 14:19 +0100 schrieb Alastair M. Robinson:
> I'm in the planning stages of adding DeviceLink profile support to
> CMYKTool.  My plan is to use ArgyllCMS to create devicelinks to
> transform between profiles, and store these for subsequent use - which
> leads me to my question:
> Is there an accepted location for storing devicelink profiles (such as
> XDG_DATA_HOME/color/icc/devicelink or something similar) where I could

They would become visible in the general ICC profile path.
How does you think software can select these profiles? What shall the UI 
show to the user or how can the selection happen automatic?

> save such profiles for potential use by other software, or should I just
> cache them privately?
>
> I shall also need to save a certain amount of metadata about the
> Devicelinks - such as the endpoint profiles (needed if you want to
> soft-proof) and parameters supplied to Argyll when generating the link
> (black-generation parameters, intents, viewing conditions, etc.)

Consider the 'psid' tag?

> I'm thinking my best bet will be to cache the metadata privately but
> make the devicelinks themselves available to other software - but I'm
> open to persuasion and very interested to hear if anyone else has any
> thoughts on this?

kind regards
Kai-Uwe Behrmann
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developing for colour management 
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