[Openicc] colord Printing Plans, CPD and Gutenprint role of PPD

[edmund ronald]

Please understand that anyone seeing endless theological discussion of
multi-layer PDF files with various embedded profiles and rendering
intents will get frustrated. I think Chris is right, and people
wanting RIP abilities would do well to be advised to move to a RIP
today.

Edmund

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 1:59 PM, edmund ronald <edmundronald at gmail.com> wrote:
> Kai Uwe,
>
>  At this point with all this discussion of complexities, I am giving
> up hope that you people will ever be able to design a system which is
> actually capable of printing even an sRGB file decently. Can't you get
> it? 99% of files out there are simple Jpeg photographs in sRGB and
> THEY NEED TO BE PRINTED.
>
>  What might really advance our discussion here is a flow chart of CUPS
> - anyone got one? Showing how files are dispatched and filters
> invoked?
>
>  And a decision to declare some basic file types which the print
> system may wish to special case, eg. the various profiling targets and
> "special" sRGB for when the system is just a skeleton.
>
> Edmund
>
> On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Kai-Uwe Behrmann <ku.b at gmx.de> wrote:
>> Am 28.02.11, 17:09 +0100 schrieb edmund ronald:
>>>
>>> Jan Peter,
>>>
>>> With all due politeness, exactly what is your interest in this
>>> discussion? Which part of this are you going to  implement?
>>>
>>> Regarding Gutenprint, either you people come to some agreement by the
>>> time Robert has implemented settings, and you can apply a profile, or
>>> I will *myself* write a module that assumes that everything sent to
>>> its is sRGB, apart from when it is clearly DeviceRGB or DeviceCMYK.
>>> This module will ensure that sRGB files are printed decently and solve
>>> the consumer printing issues.
>>
>> Btw. the pdftoraster filters will do a colour conversion. So I do not
>> understand your point in a additional module.
>>
>> kind regards
>> Kai-Uwe Behrmann
>> --
>> developing for colour management www.behrmann.name + www.oyranos.org
>>
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