[Digikam-devel] OpenIcc List

[Gilles Caulier]

Le Mardi 22 Novembre 2005 08:42, vous avez écrit :
> ---- Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at free.fr> escribió:
> > Le Mardi 22 Novembre 2005 01:06, PLinnell a écrit :
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Just a short note to let you know there is an #openicc channel on
> > > freenode.net and also the openicc list should be of interest to you
> > > folks as well.
> > >
> > > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/OpenIcc
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Peter
> > > Scribus Team
> >
> > OK. Thanks for the url.
> >
> > Important question : what the way to make a free download area of ICC
> > profiles for digital still cameras, screens, printers, etc ? I think that
> > it's really complicated to find an ICC profile to download on the web.
> > digikam users need to have this files easily....
> >
> > Sure there are certainly any copyright problems... What do you think ?
> >
> > --
> > Gilles Caulier
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>
> Certainly, it's difficult to find icc files through the web. I have a lot
> of them that I've obtained from Window$ and MaCOS drivers and apps for
> devices like printers, scanners and cameras. Almost every icc profile has a
> copyright and I don't know how restrictive it is (for free
> download/distribution).
>
> There are some "generic" profiles, like sRGB ones, that are for free
> downloads through the Internet (e.g. from the Internet Color Consortium
> www.color.org), but this is unusual.
>
> So, I recommend this: if you want to get icc profiles for your devices
> (printer, scanner, camera, monitor, ...) get them from their own Win/Mac
> drivers or apps cd's or download them from their respectives webs. Then you
> can do this:
>
> 1. Install this apps with wine, it's not required that this apps work ok,
> you only need the installed files to look for the icc files. 2. Use
> cabextract (for Win$) or unstuff (MaC) for decompress/extract profiles from
> files like *.cabs, *.sit and *.hqx.
>
> One more option is to look for icc files in p2p, but we must to remember
> that this can be ilegal in some countries.
>
> Paco Cruz.

This is want mean that we need to explain in details how to get digital still 
camera icc profiles on digiKam handbook in the future... to prevent any 
redondant questions on users ML...

-- 
Gilles Caulier