Re: Gimp-Print and the implementation of color management
Re: Gimp-Print and the implementation of color management
- Subject: Re: Gimp-Print and the implementation of color management
- From: Graeme Gill <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 14:39:32 +1000
Ernst Dinkla wrote:
>
I guess Graeme Gill already must know some aspects of the
>
implementation as his Argyll engine is mentioned quite often as
>
the best option for that CMS.
As far as I'm aware, noone from the Gimp print/CUPs world has bothered
to spend the couple of hours it would take to add ICC device link profile
support to any of the Open Software printing systems. [To be fair,
Argyll's documentation is severely lacking, and my choice of a non-standard
build system presents an initial obstacle, but it all seems "to hard"
for those few developers who have started out enthusiastically, and then
quickly petered out. Given that I've done all the really hard work
for them, this is kind of disappointing...] My current conclusion
is that there is a large gap in the determination, financial resources
and technical knowledge between the commercial vendors of color critical
applications, and the "enthusiast amateur open source developers"
that seem to tinker at the edges of various open source applications.
Many of the most significant open source applications seem to have
a core team of programmers who are the equivalent of any
commercial group, and are often backed by some commercial entity,
but generally color is not deemed as a critical enough feature to
get much of their attention.
My own thoughts are that incorporating various particular CMMs into
Linux/Open Source applications is actually repeating the mistakes made
by commercial operating systems earlier on, and that a better move in
the long run, would be to define an Open Operating System Color Services
module, that would mimic the kind of services provided by ColorSync, and
allow a variety of back end CMMs, including Argyll, LittleCMS, commercial
CMMs etc. (an idea I've tinkered with, but haven't got serious about yet.
That's the trouble with all this being just a spare time activity :-)
Graeme Gill.
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