Re: [Lcms-user] Extract name from ICC profile

[Aaron B. <bo...@gm...>]

Cool. So, this gives an array of wchar_t.
I need to pass this to libpng, which is expecting a pointer to char.
Is there an easy way of converting?

Thanks
Aaron


On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 11:06 AM, Marco Freudenberger <
Mar...@en...> wrote:

> Not sure if it’s the best way, here’s a sniplet of what I was using once
> to get the display name (C++11):
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> // assuming you have the profile open – hprofile is the handle to the
> profile
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> cmsUInt32Number bufferSize = cmsGetProfileInfo(hprofile,
> cmsInfoDescription, cmsNoLanguage, cmsNoCountry, nullptr, 0);
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> size_t numWideChars = (bufferSize + 1) / 2;
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> std::unique_ptr<wchar_t[]> description(new wchar_t[numWideChars]);
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> cmsUInt32Number result = cmsGetProfileInfo(hprofile, cmsInfoDescription,
> cmsNoLanguage, cmsNoCountry, description.get(), bufferSize);
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> Note that you might want to check if the profile name is available a
> certain language….
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> You also could directly store it to a pre-sized std::wstring rather than
> the unique_ptr<wchar_t[]>; I don’t remember why Idid it that way.
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> Marco
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> *Von:* Aaron Boxer [mailto:bo...@gm...]
> *Gesendet:* Montag, 27. Februar 2017 09:58
> *An:* lcm...@li...
> *Betreff:* [Lcms-user] Extract name from ICC profile
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> Hello Again,
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> What is the best way of using lcms to extract an ICC profile name?
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> Thanks so much,
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> Aaron
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