- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 07:04:35 +0100
- To: www-svg@w3.org
Hi SVG-ers, SVG contains the ability to reference an International XColor Consortium (ICC) profile for the definition of a colorspace, and to then reference colors in thatspace. So, display will involve converting these colors first to the profile connection space (typically CIE XYZ) and then, to the color space used by the display or printer on which the SVG is being displayed. I notice that existing SVG implementations tend to skip over this part ;-) I agree, color management can be complex. Marti Maria Saguer announced a "free, open source, CMM engine"[1] for color management called lcms or 'little cms' in the newsgroup sci.engr.color. Its free, open source, and has a GNU license. It works only on Windows/Intel platforms, apparently (but if you are coding on a Mac, there is already a MacOS CMM engine that you can just use already built in; plus there is source, so you can port to Unix etc). I bring it to the attention of SVG developers who might like to rely on a library written by an expert, rather than code this up themselves. [1] http://www.abaforum.es/martim/lcms.htm -- Chris
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