On 01/24/2014 07:41 PM, marti.ma...@littlecms.com wrote: > > Elle, the problem is *nix is not a registered signature and therefore > you would produce non-conformant profiles if using that. The icc profile > dump app issues a warning, and I know about more than one company using > that tool to validate profiles. Otherwise, a CMM should *not* make any > distinction from this fieldso, its usage is purely testimonial. > > Actually lcms uses it as a watermark and only mac and windows are > supported. It is like the creation date: is supposed to be put there by > the system and nobody should use it. On the one hand, creating a floss profile that's incompatible with nonfloss software would of course be a problem for people who want to use that software.
On the other hand, if some software refuses to use a profile because of a *nix platform tag, when the platform tag is purely testimonial and shouldn't be used - that could be characterized as a bug in the software. Negative primary values also result in a warning, at least when using iccToXml and so also with the icc profile dump app? Hopefully software ignores this warning. Otherwise there's no way to use a whole lot of custom camera input profiles with the softwares that validate profiles using the dump app. > > If you have any use case other than purely cosmetic I would gladly add > it but in any case we need to get *nix signature registered first. The use case could be characterized as philosophic and as reflecting reality, rather than as purely cosmetic. Linux does exist and is used to make ICC profiles and as a digital imaging platform. If the *nix signature were registered that would make more sense than the current situation. Of the four currently registered platform signatures, according to Wikipedia Taligent never made it to market and ceased development in 1998. I suspect Oracle isn't much used to make ICC profiles or as a platform for digital imaging. > Quoting Elle Stone <ellest...@ninedegreesbelow.com>: >> Wanting to see *nix as the platform is strictly a personal preference. This personal preference reflects philosophic concerns that perhaps are shared by some other people who use Linux. Elle ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Lcms-user mailing list Lcms-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lcms-user
