[Openicc] CUPS Color Management under Linux gets into distros

[Alexandre Prokoudine]

On 3/4/11, Kai-Uwe Behrmann wrote:

> 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.

Yes

> 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.

Then it should be pluggable the way it currently is done in GIMP re Gutenprint.

> 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 needs lots of things :) I discussed UI changes with
Alastair before, some of them were implemented, some -- not, while
being agreed on. It's a one-man project, really. I'd love to see more
people working on it.

> 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.

However it means relying on a 3rd party project which is supposed to
be really top-notch. E.g. creating photobooks is not exactly easy
right now. One would expect an authoring application to support
complex templates, using Exif and XMP metadata and so on. Not even
Scribus can do all of that. But this is likely to be off-topic for
this list already.

Alexandre Prokoudine
http://libregraphicsworld.org