[Openicc] meta data in test chart

[Kai-Uwe Behrmann]

Am 20.01.11, 15:13 +1100 schrieb Graeme Gill:
> Chris Murphy wrote:
>> I think depending on ICC profiles containing metadata to do this is 
>> completely dead in
>> the water. There is no requirement for the profile builder to populate 
>> these tags.
>> There's no support in any package I'm aware of that populates these tags 
>> either, you'd
>> have to use something like sampleicc or icctoxml to add the tags. I could 
>> be wrong but
>> I think that will go nowhere for the larger ICC market.
>
> Hmm. Doesn't sound too hard. Ideally it needs to be part of the profiling 
> chart
> printing process. If the profiler submits the test chart to the driver/print 
> queue,
> it should be able to retrieve the metadata at the same time, so that it can
> tag the resulting profile. For a manual test print, there would be a user
> option to save the meta data to some file.

The print command will know exactly, which driver settings where used to 
send the job. This suggests a specialised mode in a colour managed print 
application e.g. photoprint: print target and save modified target ...
then use the modified target in ArgyllCMS.


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