[Libexif-devel] ICC profile API?

[Ross B. <ro...@bu...>]

Hi,

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.

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.

Thanks,
Ross

[1] http://www.burtonini.com/blog//computers/eog-icc-2005-06-16-09-57
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