[Openicc] project ideas 2011

[Kai-Uwe Behrmann]

Am 07.02.11, 18:12 -0700 schrieb Chris Murphy:
> On Feb 7, 2011, at 7:48 AM, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Kai-Uwe Behrmann <ku.b at gmx.de> wrote:
>> In contrary, the new repository will distribute various custom and vendor provided device profiles for a large number of devices in a internet accesible data base.
>>
>> While I understand where you are putting the dividing line, I am not convinced that the average user will understand NOR am I sure how it will work out legally.  I know the trouble that both ICC and ECI have had to obtain the rights for the profiles they put up...
>
> If the ICC wants to host this sort of space, that's fine. But I tend to agree that they are configured for standard characterization data sets. Not potentially hundreds of inkjet characterization sets.
>
> Does anyone know if *cupsICCProfile supports URLs? It would be really frigging cool if we could have those profiles off of the computer, locally cached. So if you don't have a network connection, there'd be a fall back profile. But if you had internet access, you could get the latest profile for that printing condition automagically. I've always wanted this...

It should then support SSL for security and I have not seen such exposed 
in CUPS.

kind regards
Kai-Uwe Behrmann
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developing for colour management 
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