[Openicc] CUPS Color Management under Linux gets into distros

[Chris Murphy]

It's a matter of perspective. Color fidelity is important. Applications that drop color metadata or perform unnecessary/improper conversions shouldn't be used by people who care about color fidelity. The problem is that it only takes one sabotaging application touching an image to totally make color management pointless, no matter how innocent.

If a color space has already been set for a document in an application, I don't see why that isn't preserved in PDF or print. Why convert to sRGB? That's more effort than simply preserving what's there.


Chris



On Mar 2, 2011, at 2:13 PM, edmund ronald wrote:

> 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:
>> 
>> 
>> On Mar 2, 2011, at 10:51 AM, Chris Murphy wrote:
>>> 
>>> 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.
>> 
>> An attempt at using three negatives in one sentence. Fail.
>> 
>> 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.