In my recent experience, ICC (or ICM or both?) profiles are included with a lot of newer hardware, and/or they can be downloaded from the manufacturer's web sites. That seems to be increasingly prevelant, at least as far as devices with Windows support are concerned. I don't know much about these profiles, but it appears that these can be used across multiple applications. Under Windows, files with .icc and .icm extensions are normally installed under the %windir%\system32\spool\drivers\color directory. Right now, there are about 50 of those files installed on one of my machines, including a significant number that appear to be for hardware that I don't even own.
My first conclusion is that a signifcant number of color profiles appear to now be either included with hardware (such as monitors, scanners, and printers), included with various applications (e.g Corel Draw), and/or included with the Windows OS. My second conclusion is that it seems reasonable that the Gimp *might* be able to use these, since they don't appear to be application-specific. However, I don't know anything about the format or content of those files, nor how to go about selecting and using the profile that is appropriate for a particular device. So, I don't know whether these same files might be usable under Linux for example, nor how difficult it might be to enable use of them from the gimp. Mainly I just wanted to offer these observations in case they might be applicable to the availability issue. s/KAM ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kelly Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "David Burren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "John Culleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "GIMPUser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 7:10 PM Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp and prepress functions > David Burren wrote: > > > and need to be reprofiled regularly. Good print labs profile their > > devices and provide the profiles to their clients. > > It's not up to the Gimp to generate profiles, it's up to the Gimp > > to use them. > > My gf used to work for a large prepress company. They spent a lot of money > generating and validating matching profiles, and they're not going to just give > them to anyone. If you want them, you pay for them. > > That's where the trade secret law comes in. > > Kelly > > _______________________________________________ > Gimp-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
