[Openicc] meta data in test chart

[Kai-Uwe Behrmann]

Am 26.01.11, 14:05 -0700 schrieb Chris Murphy:
> 6. Where is Linux going? What's the end game for color on the platform? 
> Is the idea to eventually color manage every pixel? Is it going to be an 
> opt-in or opt-out system? Deciding this makes a big difference on what 
> language to use in GUI options, to how you allow applications to either 
> opt-in or opt-out of color management on the platform. I'm not sure what 
> this ideology is yet.

Managing every pixel is not easy with the curret stack. Too many
component authors do not care and control is not possible at all. Opt-in 
would mean colour management is only for experts. We are working toward 
CM by default for non experts. I conclude we are targeting at a opt-out 
system.

For display colour management there is a very long tradition to just say 
sRGB everywhere. Interessted applications can show more than 
normalised sRGB by opting out of server side CM and do correction on their 
own. The CompICC display colour server and the belonging proposals support 
this.

Gutenprint people for a long time wanted to improve colour through ICC 
conversion by default. The need to comply to the PDF standard seems a 
further hint for this direction to go.


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