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[edmund ronald]

A major part of the effort of creating Gutenprint drivers for printers
has so far gone into ink curves and a custom manual color model - and
now suddenly with 16 bit data paths and automatic profiling it looks
like most of that painstaking work will suddenly go away, and be
replaced with a printer profile and a black box that converts from
sRGB.

In summary the minority features have suddenly turned mainstream and
promise to hugely lighten the developer workload.

What Robert tells me is that in fact this is totally unintentional.
The Raw (deviceRGB) workflow and 16 bit data paths that might now be
the main workflow were in fact implemented as somewhat eccentric
minority user requests - I still remember being told to "read the
source code" when wanting to print in devicespace as a reviewer!

BTW, this is not my story, it is of course Robert's story. I have been
watching Gutenprint for years, starting when I was the photo columnist
for Publish.com, and so I find it an interesting trajectory in how
software develops.

Edmund

On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 7:33 PM, Robert Krawitz <rlk at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 13:46:43 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
>> On 12 February 2011 02:05, edmund ronald <edmundronald at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> BTW; I just have a tendency to vocally disagree with the Linux for
>>> Dummies philosophical premise, but in no way do I doubt the
>>> gentleman's demonstrated expertise or dedication.
>>
>> Not Linux for dummies. Linux for normal people.
>>
>> Note: I don't include myself in that definition of normal! :-)
>
> Edmund's point still stands: what is the definition of "normal
> people"?  Folks who just want to print snapshots downloaded from their
> phone, or something more sophisticated?  I think a lot of developers
> underestimate what users want to do.
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