[Openicc] Assigning icc profiles to driver settings

[edmund ronald]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 12:00 AM, Graeme Gill <graeme at argyllcms.com> wrote:
> edmund ronald wrote:
>>
>>  Decide whether you want to engage in a public debate before
>> standardisation, with all parties on an equal footing or whether you
>> want a private club to run things - but if it is a private club, don't
>> expect us to follow.
>
> Edmund,
>        the ICC profile format is relatively open and flexible.
> There's nothing to stop someone from creating a private (but
> publicly documented) tag to contain driver configuration information,
> if a standard tag is not suitable, and if that is a desirable
> technical direction.
>
> Graeme Gill.
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Graeme,
 One of the purposes Gutenprint would like to externalize the driver
parameters is to allow domain experts to edit values which now need to
be tuned by the maintainers.
 XML editing with a text editor is easy.
 Why would it be preferable to have tags in a profile that contain
driver information, rather than have an XML file that contains an
embedded profile?
Edmund