Hi, On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 13:54:39 +0100, Sven Neumann <sven@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Color management on Windows would ideally be implemented using the > color management capabilities of the operating system. Same on Mac OS > X where ColorSync should be used. For now we will however concentrate > on the LCMS based implementation and of course we will make sure that > it works on all supported platforms. My understanding (please correct me, I don't have personal experience of this) is that the windows CMS is (or was?) rather broken: that was one of Marti Maria's original motivations for the development of LCMS. The apple one is supposed to be better, but there are some benefits to having the same CMS on all platforms. > ICC profiles can be stored in TIFF files. The parasite is just the way > that GIMP deals with this information. I don't know off the top of my > head if JPEG allows to embed ICC profiles. Since I would rather get > back to work on the color management implementation, I kindly ask you > to look that up in the JPEG spec yourself. You can embed ICC profiles in JPEG files. The lcms distribution contains code to insert and extract profiles: check the sources for jpegicc and friends. John
