[Openicc] CUPS Color Management under Linux gets into distros

[Kai-Uwe Behrmann]

Am 04.03.11, 15:13 +0300 schrieb Alexandre Prokoudine:
> On 3/4/11, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
>>>> As I said, don't use Krita for printing. We have even being considering
>>>> dropping the "print" menu entry.
>>>
>>> That's a bit of overreaction, no? What exactly is the reason for that
>>> apart from, presumably, lack of human resources to work on printing?
>>
>> To start with, it's not our vision: the end product of working with Krita is
>> a file, not something on paper. Something you send your publisher to produce
>> your comic, for instance. Then we don't have the expertise, nor the hardware
>> to test our work with. And finally, since nobody on the team really needs to
>> print, nobody has the incentive to make it work really well.
>
> Well, I understand the expertise bit, and the hardware bit, and the
> interest bit. But the vision bit? Not being able to print directly
> what you paint? I mean, come on, even Audacity has simplistic
> printing, and it's a multitrack audio editor.

I invested some time in CinePaint for high quality printing inclusive 
writing tutorials. And I can only agree with Cyrille and Boudewijn under 
the conditions they mention. To keep a print tool up to date is not 
simple.

However one suggestion can be made and that is to delegate the printing 
stuff. Best for most applications is to drop a tagged file together with 
some settings for rendering intents and so on and call a external 
application like PhotoPrint or call a ready made dialog like CPD.

On a side note, PhotoPrint might benefit from a more free and intuitive 
way to move and scale the image, like in the Gutenprintui provided dialog. 
Photoprint's indirect numerical scalers in the right dialog window are not 
as easy to use for me. Otherwise I found PhotoPrint a good tool and the 
commitment of its author wonderful.

For much more specialised projects like Scribus, a external application 
might not be convincing. For most projects in the photo field, delegation 
of the printing task could become a fair model.

kind regards
Kai-Uwe Behrmann
-- 
developing for colour management 
www.behrmann.name + www.oyranos.org