Re: Goodbye ICC, here come Microsoft !
Re: Goodbye ICC, here come Microsoft !
- Subject: Re: Goodbye ICC, here come Microsoft !
- From: Jan-Peter Homann <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 13:58:01 +0200
Hello list
I read carefully the documents, and it seems that Microsoft is doing a
good job in terms of a powerful colormanagement-infrastructure for
Windows VISTA with some clear business models.
Even if I´m Mac addicted, the technical concept is far ahead of
colorsync or ICCv4
A comparable concept for colorsync would include:
- 16-Bit CMYKmyog Printerdrivers which can be directly profiled
- A smart CMM, which uses only the absolut colorimetric tables of an
ICC-profile with additional parameters for viewing conditions / gamut
mapping
- direct support of measurement devices, whithout the need for profiling
softwares
- A clear idea, which markets ar adressed, and what are the benefits of
the users, hardware- and software vendors.
We should also take in consideration, that Microsoft was the first (and
still only) company, which defined a complete colormanagement-workflow
(from input via sRGB to output) and delivers testsuites to the vendors
for checking the behaviour of input and output-devices / drivers,
according the MS workflow definitions
I´m waiting since years of clear workflow definitions from the ICC, how
the OS, drivers and applications should interact. Part of this workflow
definitions must be testsuites, to check the behavior and the
communication between drivers, OS and applications.
As the ICC itself has no clear vision, how colormanagement should work
in detail, also Apple has it not. You can see it at the actual colorsync
implementation, which has some nice ideas but is intransparent and
useless for the professional user. Hardwired colorsettings, unwanted
embedding of profiles and automated triggered invisible colorconversions
are a diseaster.
Adobe instead made a good colormanagement-job with CS2 for the
professionals.
Also very interesting are the actual discussion in the Open Source
Community concerning colormanagement.
The free available argyllCMS has already implemented features Microsoft
is announcing. Including a free high-end print-profiler, smart
gamutmapping based on CIECAM02 an separation-preserving for CMYK2CMYK.
Unfortunatly there is no GUI. All the work has to be done with the terminal.
The Open Source vendors of the OS, drivers and applications are
discussing activly at the openicc-mailinglist how to integrate their
products better.
The littleCMM has now more features as the CMMs from Adobe or Apple and
is already integrated in several OSS-products.
If Apple still ignores the professional users with their
colorsync-implementation, I will may be buy my first Windows PC in the
future to use:
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Microsoft Colormanagement
- Open Source Software
After 16 Years of being a Mac-only User, this would be hard step...
:-( Jan-Peter
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>> snip
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/display/color/WCS.mspx
Very interesting is
http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/d/6/5d6eaf2b-7ddf-476b-93dc-7cf0072878e6/WCS.doc
Sounds to me like the CMS software vendors are going to have issues -
hardware vendors might like this.
Edmund
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