Re: Panther drivers-No color correction?, etc..
Re: Panther drivers-No color correction?, etc..
- Subject: Re: Panther drivers-No color correction?, etc..
- From: Robert L Krawitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 13:19:12 -0500
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 09:44:57 -0800
From: Tyler Boley <email@hidden>
CC: email@hidden, email@hidden, email@hidden
I'm unfamiliar with Panther's utilization of Gimp-Print, and whether or
not this is still an issue in that environment with Ghostscript out of
the picture. I'm still in Jaquar, a nifty new GUI and goofier color
management isn't real high on my list of needs.
The Gimp-Print people said it wasn't them, the Ghostscript people said
it wasn't them, that left the Apple pdf RIP which of course no one
addressed. Kind of like trying to ask the Pacific Ocean a question, if
Apple was included in the conversation by Gimp-Print or Ghostscript
people, interested users were never informed. Clearly, with Apple
shipping Gimp-Print drivers in their new OS, there have been more
important conversations going on between the parties.
Roy Harrington, with his programming knowledge, was able to grab direct
control of the inks for quadtone work, and concluded it was a
Ghostscript issue. No comment from any of the three major players.
There is no obvious user access to any control of Ghostscript functions,
nor Apple's pdf RIP. There is (or was), however, an easily found user
setting in Gimp-Print called RawCMYK. It has never worked.
So who would one interact with to move this along?
Obviously, this setting would make some of us jump for joy, previously
imprisoned by quickdraw RGB only. It would probably make a number of RIP
developers somewhat unhappy as well. Perhaps this setting has been
excluded from the Panther drivers.
I've forwarded this on to my contacts at Apple.
This situation is clearly a real nuisance, and unfortunately I don't
have any answers for you right now. Hopefully we can get this cleared
up.
--
Robert Krawitz <email@hidden>
Tall Clubs International --
http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2
Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- mail email@hidden
Project lead for Gimp Print --
http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net
"Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works."
--Eric Crampton
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