Re: [Gimp-developer] LCMS 2.8 will handle alpha channels

[Michael Natterer <mitch gimp org>]

On Tue, 2016-06-07 at 15:57 -0400, Elle Stone wrote:
> The LCMS 2.8 release candidate 1 has code for handling alpha
> channels 
> during ICC profile conversions:
>
> "2.8 does support alpha channel transportation and a new transform 
> stride function and plug-in which can be used to increase
> significantly 
> the processing speed."
>
> Perhaps this new code could be useful for helping GIMP make faster
> ICC 
> profile conversions? As there are a lot of profile conversions going
> on 
> with some of the new color management code, probably every little bit
> helps.

That is great news :)

We will definitely make use of that, do you know when it will be
available? We will clearly depend on lcms 2.8 if it becomes
available before GIMP 2.10.

> Here's the link to the announcement and discussion:
>
> https://sourceforge.net/p/lcms/mailman/lcms-user/thread/000001d1c02a%
> 249a1ac4a0%24ce504de0%24%40littlecms.com/#msg35140820
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