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

[Alastair M. Robinson]

Hi,

On 31/05/11 21:28, Richard Hughes wrote:

> As to using poppler, I'm not sure. I assume poppler installs a filter
> into CUPS like gstoraster?

Poppler itself doesn't - what shipped with Ubuntu Natty was essentially 
a proof-of-concept filter which supplied the CupsICCProfile to Poppler, 
and asked it to render the PDF to that profile.  (A request which 
Poppler merrily ignores for PDFs that use /DeviceRGB, which currently 
means PDFS from pretty much everything on Linux except for Scribus.)

> If so, that needs patching to contact
> colord just like gstoraster does, on the assumption poppler can now
> handle external ICC output profiles.

It can, to a certain extent - though with the Cairo backend it only 
supports RGB output profiles.  The pdftoraster backend in Natty works 
around this by asking for sRGB output and converting after the fact when 
a CMYK output profile is in use.  (The other backend, Splash, supposedly 
supports CMYK output but has other issues, like not supporting subpixel 
font rendering.)

All the best
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Alastair M. Robinson