On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 6:58 PM, <marti.ma...@littlecms.com> wrote:
>
> Quoting Graeme Gill <gra...@argyllcms.com>:
>
> > I'm not sure that makes any sense - ICC is an expandable tag format. No
> > tool should report an error just because it comes across a tag
> > it doesn't recognize, unless it absolutely has no choice - the standard
> > may well have been expanded after it was written, or it may be a private
> > extension.
>
> Yes, that's true on tags, but this is a header field. Anyway I think you
> are right and storing a value other than the registered ones should not
> represent an error. iccDump issues a warning, but for many quality teams
> this is enough to spot an issue.
>
> ICC suggests to register the signature because in this way we avoid
> the mess of everybody using his own signature to point same thing.
> Registration is free of charge. So, using *nix is Ok, but registering
> it would assure every tool reading *nix would understand the same.
>
In the deeper past I've had discussions with Richard, about trying to
coerce the Linux Foundation to register 'lnxf' for example...
Regards,
Pascal de Bruijn
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