[Openicc] CUPS Color Management under Linux gets into distros

edmund ronald edmundronald at gmail.com
Wed Mar 2 13:13:20 PST 2011


Ok, how about some positives:

Color fidelity is important, applications should endeavor to preserve
color information.

Edmund

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 7:00 PM, Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com> wrote:
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> On Mar 2, 2011, at 10:51 AM, Chris Murphy wrote:
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>> But dropping metadata when producing a PDF is a kind of data loss. I don't think people would appreciate it if 500 pixels off the bottom of every image were to just go missing, and only when producing PDFs or printing. And just because they aren't aware of color fidelity data loss doesn't mean this data should be handled better.
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> An attempt at using three negatives in one sentence. Fail.
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> Just because users lack awareness of color fidelity data loss should not be used as an excuse for mishandling data, and performing unnecessary conversions where tagging the data correctly is preferable.
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> Chris Murphy
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