[Openicc] colord 0.1.0 released!

Kai-Uwe Behrmann ku.b at gmx.de
Mon Jan 17 06:25:03 PST 2011


Am 17.01.11, 09:00 -0500 schrieb Leonard Rosenthol:
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 8:49 AM, edmund ronald <edmundronald at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> My feeling is that it is very important not only to be able to turn
>> all CMS off for a printer,
>
>
> Just to be pedantic, since it's VERY important here, what you really mean is
> turn off DRIVER color management.  There are no provisions at the
> CUPS/GutenPrint level to turn off APPLICATION CM _NOR_ to turn off HARDWARE
> CM...and both of those can (of course) play a part in the whole pipeline....
>
> Leonard

Thats why I suggested to look at CPD, the common printing dialog, where a 
OpenUsability specialist made already suggestion to cover ICC rendering 
options. At that level, the user has typical full control. Local and 
system wide ICC profiles are available.
The two things to be resolved is then, to mark the print file as not to 
colour managed further in the process if requested.
The second is to transport the selected ICC profile to the CUPS server.

To summarize my view on the current colord approach:
it tries to substitute, what I expected CUPS solves with own means. It 
copies a knowingly problematic solution from an other OS, and introduces
the many of these problems as well on Linux.


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



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