ICC profiles

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Tue Feb 28 11:00:05 PST 2006


DURIEUX David wrote:
>> DURIEUX David wrote:
>>> I don't arrive to use the ICC profiles.
>>> I use the last version : CUPS 1.2svn r5137
>>>
>>> In my ppd file of my printer, I add the line '*cupsICCProfile ../Default: "myprofile.icc"' or I try whith '*cupsICCProfile ../Default: "/usr/local/share/cups/profiles/myprofile.icc"'
>>> My icc file is in '/usr/local/share/cups/profiles/'.
>> See:
>>
>>      http://localhost:631/help/spec-ppd.html#PROFILES
>>
>> Basically, right now only Apple's CoreGraphics-based filters (the
>> cg*toraster ones) support ICC color profiles.
>>
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>> ______________________________________________________________________
>> Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com
>> Internet Printing and Document Software          http://www.easysw.com
> 
> So it's not possible for the moment if I have understood.
> 
> It will be enable (used) for the all application in the near future?

No, it won't happen before CUPS 1.3 now (CUPS 1.2 is in a feature
freeze and will be going into beta Real Soon Now).

ESP Ghostscript 8.50.1 and CUPS 1.3 will probably have destination
ICC support, but they haven't even entered development yet.

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Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com
Internet Printing and Document Software          http://www.easysw.com




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