On Friday 03 March 2006 23:21, Hal V. Engel wrote: > On Friday 03 March 2006 01:15 pm, PLinnell wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Never ever use anything but a profile generated for your monitor, > > otherwise all bets are off for color previews. > > > > I just refreshed the section on creating profiles with lprof for > > Linux. Here: > > http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&page=moncal&subpage=1 > > the rest of the color management docs are getting redone right > > now for 1.3.x > > I will add this to the links page on the lprof web site. Thanks > for updating this. > > One comment about the content. While apps like kgamma and tkgamma > will allow users to adjust the monitor gamma the chart used by > these is one that is not particularly repeatable or consistant in > actual use. An app named monica uses the Norman Koren gamma chart > which is the same one used in lprof. This chart is much better > than those used in most gamma setting apps and Norman claims that > it allows for the gamma to be consistently set with a tolerance > +-0.1. My experience is that this is a very conservative claim and > I think that the actual tolerance is closer to +-0.05. I highly > recommend monica as the best app for this function. > > > On Windows, if you have Adobe Gamma, you can use that to create a > > decent monitor profile visually. It will not be as accurate as > > hardware created profile. > > > > The older littlecms profilers and manual for windows are > > available here: > > http://web.archive.org/web/20041009161611/http://www.littlecms.co > >m/profiler s.htm > > A better link for this stuff is: > > http://gkall.hobby.nl/sane-lprof/sane-lprof.html > > This page belongs to one of the current lprof developers. > > > I expect we will see a new lprof available for Windows by the > > next release. > > Lprof now has a volunteer who is working on the Windows port. I > had already done a significant amount of Windows porting work on > 1.11.0 and other work since that time has been very careful about > keeping the code base portable. But I am not a Windows person and I > thought that someone who was would do it more justice. It took a > while to find a volunteer but Joe Pizzi stepped forward about a > week ago and is highly qualified. He now has the Windows port of > the current CVS code to the point where it builds and runs. His > changes have also been regression tested on Linux. This still > needs more testing and I suspect some fixes before it is released. > It will also be necessary to package it into an installer. > > The current plan is to release the Windows binary along with the > next source tarball as version 1.11.4 some time in the next few > weeks. By the way current CVS is internationalized (as will the > next release) and we are looking for volunteers to do translations > for the GUI. If you are interested in volunteering please contact > me. I would like to have at least a handful of good translations > before the next release. Right now the only one that is even close > is the Russian translation which is also the only one where someone > has volunteered to do the work. > > Hal >
Thanks for the update and notes.. Those will be added soon. Cheers, Peter
