Re: The DDC situation
Re: The DDC situation
- Subject: Re: The DDC situation
- From: MARK SEGAL <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:09:01 -0800 (PST)
Edmund,
Who's to say that the ICC or Adobe, or Apple or Epson are responsible for this? Tom's message is about the technical obstacles to obtaining reliable and pervasive performance of DDC. That problem seems to be lodged between manufacturers of displays, manufacturers of graphic cards, the designers of CMMs (whether for Apple or Microsoft) and the people making the profiling software who need to cope with a huge variety of models and codes, not all of which are shared with them for commercial reasons. It's a pain I'm working with right now using seemingly vanilla, high quality, equipment but to no avail. It won't get fixed or better understood by mixing-up the exact niche being discussed here with colour management in general, and then pointing fingers most likely at the wrong sets of people.
If it's a complex and multi-faceted as Tom describes, then some folks in the industry, or some appropriate organization -which could be, but not necessarily would be the ICC - should mount an industry initiative to design standards and protocols that would enable this particular process to be more successfully implemented. It's been done for other things, why not this problem?
Mark
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From: edmund ronald <email@hidden>
To: email@hidden
Cc: email@hidden
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 3:04:47 PM
Subject: Re: The DDC situation
Tom,
Thank you for your informative post.
The balkanized state of DDC is indeed regrettable.
However, nothing excuses the repeated breakage of *working* CMS.
Companies like Apple, Adobe and Epson live off the graphics market,
and the fact that they break color management with updates, and then
indulge in retroactive fingerpointing is absurd.
What this repeated breaking of *working* CMS really demonstrates is
that the ICC is incapable of creating a test-suite for testing
non-regression and interoperability, preferring fingerpointing instead
as a modus vivendi. As an ICC member I find this extremely sad.
Edmund
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 4:02 PM, <email@hidden> wrote:
> Hi to all,
>
> As someone who as worked with DDC since 2002, I can say that the situation is bad and it is not getting better.
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