[Openicc] Linux printing

[Chris Murphy]

On Feb 28, 2012, at 5:56 PM, Graeme Gill wrote:

> Chris Murphy wrote:
>> Nope. There are a number of tools that are specifically designed to fix this problem.
>> Professionals use professional software, and this is in any number of pre-press capable
>> applications on the market. Brute force hammers like this one in a RIP have a tendency to be
>> turned on and left on. The problem is the file, not the RIP's interpretation of the file.
> 
> It's not your prerogative to decide how I set up my RIP.
> 
> If you want to turn such a thing on in YOUR RIP, feel free,
> but don't think you have some right to dictate my options.

I have no ability to dictate a single thing. I'm not a developer, let alone a Ghostscript developer. I can't take away a feature that's already in the thing, anymore than I can compel PNG viewers to honor chrm and gama chunks (not that it really matters anymore now anyway now that they use ICC profiles).

I'm only opining that the RIP shouldn't even have the feature in the first place, the problem is elsewhere. It was not a good idea to spend the engineering resources on it. But some downstream customer who makes a pre-press RIP, looking to sell a feature to hapless pre-press companies they do not need, asks for upstream to fix the problem for the whiny customer instead of being informed and telling them the proper way to fix the PDF.

Instead, what happens is we have an entire f'n pre-press industry in the United States (primarily) that has this very kind of feature enabled for *all* of their jobs. The default is to ignore embedded /ICCBased for CMYK. And to ignore and replace embedded /ICCBased for RGB.

Now we can complete the perversion if this feature can be enabled for PDF/X files as well.

So the more accurate response is to tell Chris Murphy to go engineer his own RIP. If we had drunks in mini-vans stopping on the free way to rescue people playing with razor blades, do I really have the power to take away booze and mini-vans? No, it's just a "is this really a good idea?" complaint. I can't actually dictate anything.


Chris Murphy