[Digikam-devel] OpenIcc List

[Tom Albers]

Gilles Caulier schreef:
> 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...

We can put it on our site, people look there more
often then in the handbook for these type of
questions I think.

Toma