[Openicc] colord 0.1.0 released!

Leonard Rosenthol leonardr at pdfsages.com
Tue Jan 18 15:41:25 PST 2011


On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Graeme Gill <graeme at argyllcms.com> wrote:

> Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
>
>> True - and that's what (regular) PDF does when you use DeviceCMYK (hence
>> the
>> name ;).  Of course, that's NOT what you want for normal usage - but for
>> something like a target/profile chart it's OK.
>>
>
> PS & PDF DeviceCMYK have been subverted though, due to the expectations
> of countless applications writers and users over many years. You can't
> sell a RIP that doesn't map DeviceCMYK to a "nice" printing space,
> and also maps DeviceRGB to an sRGB like space, etc.


Yes, but those are "knobs and switches" on the RIP that can be turned off so
that the RIP operates according to spec.  (and if not, then switch RIPs!)
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