Re: Profile Names (and output condition tag)
Re: Profile Names (and output condition tag)
- Subject: Re: Profile Names (and output condition tag)
- From: Graeme Gill <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 01:37:40 +1100
Klaus Karcher wrote:
I think you're right (you are the programmer, so it must be that way).
Just thought: Hey, there are a lot of feasible XML parsers out there,
maybe this could speed up some things and ease the task of bringing
together what belongs together (profiles and metadata), but it doesn't
avoid to come together, talk about what's needed and to agree upon
something. It takes time and commitment anyway, pixidust doesn't work.
I would suspect that the issue you point to is not the technology,
but the standard, and the standard group (ICC). At the moment
there are only really two sorts of ICC tags: Standard tags,
and Private tags. Standard tags are (usually) well documented, but
you have to be a member of ICC and convince enough other members
of the ICC that a new tag is a good idea, to get it added to
the standard. At best, this takes some time. Without exception
I think, all private tags are undocumented. A lot of Apples
private tags (ie. vcgt) are almost documented, if you read
between the lines of the Colorsync spec., but there is still
room for confusion there, as I've recently discovered.
What I'd like to see is a more informal clearing house for
experimental or private ICC tags. These would be private tags, with
public specifications, the idea being to fast track development
of tags that people feel a need for, without the overhead of them
being formal standards. I'd imagine that a number of such tags
would then be able to make their way into the formal specifications.
What's needed is a place to publish the specifications, some sort of
registration for tag signatures, to prevent collisions or pollution
of the formal tag signature space.
[I know the first tag on my list, would be a total ink limit tag.]
Graeme Gill.
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