Re: WCS followup article
Re: WCS followup article
- Subject: Re: WCS followup article
- From: edmund ronald <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 00:21:36 +0200
If MS exports an ICC profile - no problem. Otherwise, the calculations
will be opaque - the computation will be probably be done by plugins.
Edmund
On 9/24/05, stevej <email@hidden> wrote:
> ---- Original Message -----
> From: "edmund ronald" <email@hidden>
>
> Hi folks -
>
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>
> My conclusion: WCS is going to be good for the consumer. But its
> proprietary nature is going to give everyone headaches. In particular,
> I expect that prints made with WCS probably won't be matchable on
> non-Microsoft platforms, because the profile calculation is only made
> at run time by Windows, so the profiles used are not exportable to a
> non-Windows system.
>
> ------Snip---------
>
> Edmund,
>
> Can't everything be reverse engineered (i.e. printing targets, creating profiles...
> ad nausium)? Even WCS (the EVIL EMPIRE)? After all, it's just mathematics,
> isn't it? Couldn't ICC profiles be created from WCS configured devises?
>
> SteveJ
>
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