Am 26.11.03, 12:32 +0100 schrieb Sven Neumann: > 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. I understand. > 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. The later sounds interessting. > > 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 Yes, CMYK is converted natively by libtiff. The plug-in is able to do it with an embedded ICC profile. This may remain for the CMS framework of gimp You mentioned. > 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 Loading it up with my login failed. Are there other ways to send it? > 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. It is more a new plug-in in terms of size. My goal was not to split the code for different apps. So take a look on it yourselfe. Kai-Uwe
