On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 22:39:19 -0500 Doug Newgard <[email protected]> said:

> ----------------------------------------
> > Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 10:44:15 +0900
> > From: [email protected]
> > To: [email protected]
> > CC: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [E-devel] Enlightenment pngs with embedded iCC profiles
> >
> > On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 16:15:47 -0500 Doug Newgard <[email protected]>
> > said:
> >
> >> I'm sure some of you have seen the warnings generated by libpng 1.6: "known
> >> incorrect sRGB profile". Now, this is no big deal, it's just a warning,
> >> but I still wanted to look into it further. By my count, there are 800 png
> >> files in Enlightenment, of which only 6 have embedded iCC profiles, all
> >> from HP. The rest are sRGB colorspace, but do not include a profile. There
> >> are some good arguments for this
> >> (http://imageoptim.com/color-profiles.html
> >> http://www.gballard.net/psd/save_for_web_embed_ICC_profile.html) and since
> >> this seems to be the default, I've attached the 6 files with the profiles
> >> stripped out. As you can see, it doesn't change the image or the
> >> colorspace, it just leaves the calibration up to the end user's system.
> >>
> >> I haven't been able to find just what's wrong with the HP iCC profile being
> >> used that the authors of libpng don't like, but it makes sense to
> >> standardize the way profiles are handled anyway. And it has the nice side
> >> effect of silencing warnings, even if the Debian/Ubuntu users aren't
> >> likely to see them for a couple of years.
> >>
> >> I can just change the iCC profile instead if you would prefer. I've seen
> >> multiple people recommend the Argyll sRGB profile, which is still "sRGB
> >> IEC61966-2.1" and is public domain.
> >>
> >> Elementary has a lot more pngs with the HP profile, so once I know for sure
> >> what people would prefer, I'll fix them, too.
> >>
> >> Doug
> >
> > what we need to know is what is adding the hp profile causing the warinig.
> > what tool does it? is it gimp? photoshop? imagemagick? otherwise we go
> > creating warnings again if that tool is used...
> 
> That's a good question. On my machine, GIMP refuses to even export the image
> with the HP profile, so I doubt that's it unless that's because of libpng
> 1.6. I do know that the HP profile is not included with GIMP, only their
> built-in profile which is used for display, it does not get embedded into
> images. I did find some information about the HP profile in relation to
> Photoshop, but others said that it didn't come with Photoshop and suggested
> it may have been included with printer/scanner software. I did find that
> Photoshop does not embed a profile by default when exporting PNGs. As far as
> I can tell, Imagemagick doesn't include any iCC profiles, so that can't be
> it, either. On my system, I have profiles from Colord, Argyll, Oyranos, and
> Yamma, and none of them include the problem profile. Where this profile came
> from is sitll a bit of a mystery to me.

well we can fix it - sure... but finding the problem source should be done. :)
looks like it needs more hunting?

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