[Openicc] colord 0.1.0 released!

[Jan-Peter Homann]

Hello Richard,
I´m not a developer, so may be my questions are in some cases a little 
bit simple:

What is a device ?
for colormanagement in the printing chain, the printer profile has to be 
assigned to combination of device/ink, paper and driver settings. How do 
you solve this with colord / CUPS ? (predifined CUPS queues for every 
combination of (device/ink, paper and driver settings?)

Where to apply the color transformation from source profile to printer 
profile ?
- colord ?
- CUPS ?
- OS ?
- Printer driver ?

Where is the rendering intent from source to printer profile specified ?
- colord ?
- CUPS ?
- OS ?
- Printer driver ?

What kind of data format is supported to be colormanaged in the printing 
stream ?
- raster only
- PDF ?

If PDF, where are the color transformations for all PDF content parts 
applied ?

Control slug possible ?
Is there any way to read, the current colord settings for a CUPS queue, 
to create a control slug on the print out, to document the settings from 
which the print has been created ?

Best regards
Jan-Peter



Am 13.01.11 13:29, schrieb Richard Hughes:
> First, some background: colord is a project I've been working on since
> Christmas.
>
> It is a simple system daemon that will be used by GCM and CUPS to
> manage per-system device-profile mapping.
>
> If you want to try it out with CUPS right now, you'll have to use our
> development tree http://gitorious.org/cups-colord and be sure to
> switch to the 'icc' branch. When we've got all the different options
> and overrides worked out we'll of course push the patchset back to
> CUPS upstream. Tim Waugh has been doing most of the CUPS work, whilst
> I've been working on the colord project.
>
> colord works a lot like colorsync on OSX, so the CUPS changes are
> really quite small.
>
> Checkout the code from http://gitorious.org/colord -- test it, and try
> to break it. The included cd-self-test program gives you some examples
> of what we're testing already. Tim has also built the cups-icc patch
> into Fedora rawhide, which might be an easier way for some people
> rather than to build the whole of CUPS.
>
> If you're only interested in pretty things, there's a screenshot of
> the admin tool here:
> http://gitorious.org/colord/master/blobs/master/doc/screenshot-devices.png
> -- note the admin tool is designed for developers and programmers,
> *not* end users :-)
>
> Comments (and patches!) welcome, thanks.
>
> Richard.
>
> Version 0.1.0
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Released: 2011-01-13
>
> Notes:
>   - Colord is a simple system activated daemon that maps devices to color
>     profiles.
>   - It is used by gnome-color-manager for CUPS integration and is also
>     used when there are no users logged in.
>   - The only real user at the moment is CUPS, but GNOME Color Manager
>     will start depending on colord when it is included in most mainstream
>     distributions.
>   - The DBus interface is not set in stone, and the libcolord library
>     will have new API added to it as required. If colord needs to break
>     public API at this stage for a specific use case, it will.
>   - The persistent storage code is not written yet, but that will come
>     with the next colord version.
>
> New Features:
>   - Add a 'Kind' attribute to the device objects (Richard Hughes)
>   - Add a libcolord shared library that can be used in the client tools
> (Richard Hughes)
>   - Add an example spec file (Richard Hughes)
>   - Add a simple colormgr man page (Richard Hughes)
>   - Add a simple GTK test GUI for testing the DBus interfaces (Richard Hughes)
>   - Add a simple script to create a test device (Richard Hughes)
>   - Add basic DBus interface (Richard Hughes)
>   - Add code for the DeleteDevice method (Richard Hughes)
>   - Add DeleteProfile() on the main interface (Richard Hughes)
>   - Add GetProfileForQualifier() code (Richard Hughes)
>   - Add MakeProfileDefault() implementation to CdDevice (Richard Hughes)
>   - Add qualifiers to profiles (Richard Hughes)
>   - Allow clients to set properties on the objects using SetProperty
> (Richard Hughes)
>   - Expose the device created time (Richard Hughes)
>   - Fixed typo in ColorManager API description (Tim Waugh)
>   - Open the profile using lcms2 after we set the profile filename
> (Richard Hughes)
>   - Provide a method to assign an ICC profile to a profile object
> (Richard Hughes)
>   - Provide methods for mapping the device ID to the object path (Richard Hughes)
>   - Use seporate PolicyKit authorisations for each action type (Richard Hughes)
>
> Richard.
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