[Openicc] [Fwd: icm profiles in debian]

[edmund ronald]

Why are there so many of these things floating around which are "defective"
and why are they put out there by people who should know better?

Edmund



On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 2:59 AM, Graeme Gill <graeme at argyllcms.com> wrote:

> edmund ronald wrote:> Off the top of my head, I would think that the ICC
> is the right
> place to go
> > for ICC color profiles (!) and indeed
> >
> > http://www.color.org/srgbprofiles.xalter
> >
> > shows us some profiles, and acceptable free license conditions.  I would
> >  recommend  the file*sRGB_IEC61966-2-1_no black_scaling.icc
>
> I wouldn't recommend either of them. See
> <http://www.freelists.org/post/argyllcms/Shadow-detail-problem,23>
> for some technical details.
>
> In addition, they both have the problem that they have a disabled
> absolute colorimetric intent, which makes them unreliable across
> the full range of possible ICC profile usage.
>
> The sRGB profile supplied with Argyll has been released into the
> public domain, and faithfully replicates the behaviour of the
> widely used original HP/Microsoft sRGB profile.
>
> Graeme Gill.
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