[Openicc] Color Infrastructure of LibreOffice

[edmund ronald]

Jan-Peter,

 It would be really useful if there were a site where we could post
the status of various color management features under Linux, and
recommended workflows.
 Would you be interested in helping to curate such a site?

Edmund

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Jan-Peter Homann
<homann at colormanagement.de> wrote:
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> Hello list,
> After I have successfully moved from MS Office to LibreOffice, I´m
> keen to understand the color infrastructure of LibreOffice.
>
> Does anyone of the list knows about this topic or knows a person which
> I could ask ?
>
> I would post the results of this my private research, that we all as
> community have a better understanding what happens inside LibreOffice
> concerning color.
>
> Especially follwoing topics I´m intested on:
>
> 1) Does LibreOffice make use of LittleCMS ?
> 2) If yes, what is the role of LittleCMS inside LibreOffice ?
> 3) Does LibreOffice make use of Cairo ?
> 4) If yes, what is the role of Cairo inside LibreOffice ?
> 5) Which library is used to handle placed PDF files into an
> LibreOffice document
> 6) Which library is used to create PDF files in the Export menue ?
> 7) What happens with color, if SVG-files with CMYK-colors are placed
> in LibreOffice ?
> 8) Could the LibreOffice color strategy be described as:
> - - embedded profiles of placed images are respected, but during export
> or print, they are normalized to sRGB ?
>
> One background of my e-mail is the question, if we may can create a
> roadmap for LibreOffice also to support CMYK colors for colors
> specified in LibreOffice and supported into the exported PDF file.
> This would enhance LibreOffice functionality as an Entry Level DTP
> application and thanks the scripting support for LibreOffice also as
> an entry solution for web to print.
>
> Best regards
> Jan-Peter
>
>
>
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