[Openicc] Is CUPS the right place... Flat color documents vs. ICCbased objects

[Richard Hughes]

On 8 February 2011 11:59, Jan-Peter Homann <homann at colormanagement.de> wrote:
> Cairo is already dealing with transparencies between individual objects. The
> concept of attaching a document color space to a Cairo session, allows the
> use the current rendering workflow in Cairo and apply the color
> transformation to the output device, after the Cairo document has been
> rendered to an image for the monitor or for the printer.
> Using this strategy would it make much easier to introduce also CMYK as a
> native colorspace in Cairo including handling of transparencies in a CMYK
> blending space.

We talked about that about a year ago on the cairo-devel list. I think
it makes a lot of sense to add this kind of data there, but at the
time a lot of people got involved in being architecture astronauts and
no code ever got written.

Richard.