[Openicc] What is exactly needed for color management in a distro?

Tue May 31 11:17:26 PDT 2011

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Kai-Uwe Behrmann wrote:

>> Windows (which I think is useless, as ColorSync and WCS are already
>> native frameworks) and colord is restricted to Linux and the BSDs.
>
> ColorSync and WCS are vendor specific because of their mission to support
> exclusively one OS. What has free software any reason to follow that?

It's a workflow thing.

Actually Scribus team had plans to abstract use of LCMS so that native
CMMs could be later plugged in on Windows and OSX.

Alexandre Prokoudine
http://libregraphicsworld.org