[argyllcms] Re: CMYK and linux

  • From: "Lars Tore Gustavsen" <lars.tore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 10:41:55 +0200

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Geert Janssens <info@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have what should be a simple question:
> What program can I use under linux to see whether a picture is CMYK or RGB ?
>
> I have a lot of images on my computer. Some of them are CMYK, some are RGB.
> The problem is, I don't know which ones are what. My local photo lab seems to
> be unable to reproduce CMYK images on paper (what an upside-down world eh ?)
>
> So basically, I would like to open an image, and read in it's properties or
> something whether it's CMYK or RGB.
>

A simple solution is imagemagick. Like this:
identify -format "%[colorspace]"  filename

http://www.imagemagick.org/script/escape.php

Regards
Lars Tore Gustavsen

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