Hi, Kai-Uwe Behrmann <web@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I guessed You mean to set an variable which helps to set lcms paths and > switches in the Makefile. For instance the separate plug-in from Alastair > M. Robinson and the color-manager from Karl Heinz Kremer need to detect > lcms separately from the main app. Separate plug-ins need to provide their own build framework. We make it relatively easy by providing pkg-config files, automake macros and a plug-in template. However third-party plug-ins and modules will need to check for lcms on their own. It's not really rocket science though and people can of course copy the check from GIMP's configure script. > These are plug-ins helping to work with different colour > spaces. Will they not included in gimps main release? They should probably be included at some point. Actually our goal was to move as much plug-ins out of the main distribution as possible and not to accept any new plug-ins. However since there's still no useable plug-in registry, we lately changed this policy and started to add plug-ins to the 1.3 tree. However it's a bit late to still add plug-ins for 2.0 but we can start now to implement a reasonable CMS framework in plug-ins and modules and integrate these into the distribution for the 2.2 release. > To my plans. As I was asked by users to make cinepaints tiffreader > compile in gimp because of its multilayer capabilities I like to > reach the most common behaviour. Recently I started to use lcms to > convert undisplayable colour spaces to RGB. So I am now able to open > CMYKs and Lab to an visible image. libtiff does these color conversions for you already. The GIMP tiff plug-in is able to read CMYK files, not sure about Lab. The ability to read multiple pages from TIFF files should be added to GIMP's standard TIFF plug-in. This is a frequently requested feature and we are waiting for a patch for quite some time already: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66886 > I liked to offer the compatible plug-in with all features of gimp > plug-in and the additionals of cinepaint for gimps 2.0 realease. At > the moment Recently a friend and I managed the plug-in to compile > with gimp-1.3.23 . As I said, it's a bit late to get this into 2.0. But it all depends on how large the changes are. I don't think we can integrate color management at this point but a clean patch for loading multiple pages could be accepted into 2.0 still. Sven
