Re: [Openicc] colord 0.1.0 released!

[edmund ronald <edmundronald gmail com>]

Amen!

Edmund.

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 1:11 AM, Chris Murphy <lists colorremedies com> wrote:

> I think what Edmund really means is a tripartite:
> 1. OS level color management = off. The lack of a consistent, reliable, off
> switch, is the present neurological disorder in progress at Apple with Mac
> OS X, now seven years after they were called out on this b.s. We do not have
> these problems on other platforms, this is not deniable, and the system
> they've created is not fail safe, it is fail danger for professionals. It
> constantly keeps coming up in all the color management problems we see from
> professionals on the platform. And what's so bizarre about it is that no one
> else is even really using ICC profiles for printing, 99.9% of the rest of
> the market uses proprietary driver based color management, not ColorSync. So
> the fail safe for regular end users they've designed isn't even being used
> by anyone, and actually bites the professionals who depend on functioning
> ICC based workflows.
> 2. Application level color management = off. This should be really simple
> for any application which is designed to print profile targets.
> 3. Driver color management = something consistently reproducible, i.e not
> automated or based on some adaptable algorithmic color enhancement of each
> printed image. CMS might not be off, because maybe we can't actually turn it
> off, but can we get a better result with a custom ICC profile on top of sRGB
> only input for a printer, than simply converting to sRGB and sending the
> data to the printer? Likely. But not certainly.
>
> Chris Murphy