Re: ICC update from Tom Lianza, Chairman ICC.
Re: ICC update from Tom Lianza, Chairman ICC.
- Subject: Re: ICC update from Tom Lianza, Chairman ICC.
- From: Kai-Uwe Behrmann <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 07:20:19 +0100 (MET)
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:15:55 +1100
From: Graeme Gill <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: ICC update from Tom Lianza, Chairman ICC.
To: ColorSync <email@hidden>
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edmund ronald wrote:
probe profiles. I think an official transition of ICC profiles to a
"modern" format like XML or JSON is a wonderfully appropriate idea,
and the sooner it gets adopted the better - but we should make sure we
Ahh - no. People complain enough about the size of simple matrix profiles,
converting multi-megabyte cLUT profiles to XML is simply madness.
You can of course encode binary as text and put it in an XML file (and people do),
but the result is no longer simple or understandable, and is still going to be
unreasonably large.
ICC uses a tag binary format because it's very suitable for encoding large
amounts of color information.
Agreed.
For what a XML transportation format, when its easy to generate the XML
from ICC representations on the fly?
kind regards
Kai-Uwe Behrmann
--
developing for colour management
www.behrmann.name + www.oyranos.org
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