[Openicc] colord 0.1.0 released!

[Leonard Rosenthol]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Hal V. Engel <hvengel at gmail.com> wrote:

> I agree with this.  The UI design related to CM for the CPD allows for this
> to
> be directly over ridden (IE. there is a "no color management" option that
> is
> part of the UI design).


EXCEPT that in the case of PDF processing, there is NO SUCH THING as "no
color management".  The standard itself goes into detail about how
(ICC-based) color management is used as part of the rendering pipeline.  For
PDF/X (and PDF/A), this is even more significant.

Certainly you can turn off CM on the raster that is produced, BUT the act of
rasterization involves CM - so please be careful of your terminology
choices.



> Also as a side note I see that there is a pdftoraster.c file that is part
> of GS
> 9.  Is this a CM enabled replacement for the pdftoraster CUPS filter?  Or
> is
> this something else?  Has anyone had a chance to look at GS 9 yet to see if
> it
> has what is needed to be a basis for a CM enabled CUPS PDF based work flow?


I can't comment on the CUPS side, but I've had long talks with Michael from
Artifex who did their CM implementation and it is an excellent
implementation with support for not only the standard itself but also enough
flexibility for their OEMs to implement various extensions (such as
n-colourant profiles and PDF/X-5n).

Leonard
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