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[Kai-Uwe Behrmann]

Am 26.01.12, 08:31 -0500 schrieb Robert Krawitz:
> On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:27:27 +0100 (CET), Kai-Uwe Behrmann wrote:
>> Am 25.01.12, 21:28 +0100 schrieb edmund ronald:
>>> If the calibration data (presets) are dumped in an XML file, the current
>>> Gutenprint iteration should be able to do the job with very little software
>>> engineering. Anything else takes us into utopia.
>>
>> What is the size of a typical Gutenprint XML?
>
> It depends.  Worst case, if you wanted to express a lot of things as
> 16-bit LUTs, I could see it reaching several megabytes.  More likely, in
> the range of 10K, but it's going to depend upon exactly how finely you
> want to calibrate things.
>
> Honestly, even several megabytes strikes me as pretty small potatoes
> these days.

While discussing about sizes, we have to consider distributors as well. 
But given that amount of data is much less than equivalent n-channel 
profiles, it is the only choice we have at the moment.

kind regards
Kai-Uwe