Re: [Libexif-devel] ICC profile API?

[Hubert F. <hfi...@te...>]

Ross Burton wrote:

> I'm trying to build the pieces required so that a normal X desktop can
> display colour-calibrated images [1].  So far I've got a tool which sets
> a property on the root window containing the ICC profile for the screen,
> and a growing patch to Eye Of Gnome which extracts any ICC profile or
> calibration data and uses Little CMS to correct the image before
> display.

Really interesting. Any plan integrating that in GNOME ? :-)

> As EoG is using libexif to read the EXIF file, and reading ICC profiles
> is very similar to reading EXIF chunks, I was wondering if the libexif
> developers would consider adding support for ICC profiles to the API?
> An ICC profile is stored in JPEG files as a set of APP2 chunks, which
> start with "ICC_PROFILE\0" followed by a sequence number.
> 
> If you think this is a good idea I'll happily try and come up with an
> API design and then a patch, but I wanted to have your feedback before
> starting.

Shoudln't be a problem. Where is that documented ? I missed something.


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