Re: [css-gcpm][css-color] device-cmyk() interaction with RGB-space colors. from Tab Atkins Jr. on 2013-09-12 (www-style@w3.org from September 2013)

From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 14:55:48 -0700
To: Rik Cabanier <cabanier@gmail.com>
Cc: Simon Sapin <simon.sapin@exyr.org>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CAAWBYDDNePgFAd-x6VKZdDKS8WNuFk37yF0A_CqF3Mu0Cb8yKg@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Rik Cabanier <cabanier@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Simon Sapin <simon.sapin@exyr.org> wrote:
>> Maybe, but that’s different from the feature specified in GCPM (and that
>> we just decided to move into Color) which does *device* CMYK, where the
>> profile is intentionally unspecified.
>
> Sure, but if you're showing it on screen, you have to convert it to RGB as
> some point.
> What is the profile for that conversion?

An unspecified, device-dependent profile.

~TJ

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