[argyllcms] Re: OT: PDF frustration
- From: "edmund ronald" <edmundronald@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 18:47:27 +0200
I think rather than waste effort on another programming effort, it
might be time for some one to create some nice probe files and
profiles, so that whenever an app comes out we demonstrate the
bugs/design flaws cleanly by means of the probe files and profiles.
James Vogh demoed his probs at the last ICC conference, and even on
the Mac where color management is well integrated one could see things
changing depending where a file was displayed in the finder
(coverflow).
Edmund
On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Lars Tore Gustavsen
<lars.tore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Sorry to post this here, but I just have to get out some frustration.
> A few days ago I downloaded the new gimp 2.6. In that version it was a
> "print preview" function that sends the raster image to a pdf file for
> a preview. On my system pdfs are handled by a program called evince.
> Anyway I ended up with a crazy looking pdf file since my image was not
> in sRGB color space. -"They have forgotten to add the right profile
> to the pdf" was my first impression. My impression was correct after
> some checking, but unfortunately the problem was much larger. Evince
> is built on a library called poppler and they don't support color
> management.
> The situation on linux today is that we can create a color managed pdf
> files with scribus, but we have now possibility to print it correctly
> in linux. Thats sad. I also found out that Kai-Uwe have already bug
> reported this. http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17499 and
> Hal have written a few very nice posts on the poppler mailing list.
> http://www.nabble.com/Color-Management-td18862333.html
> The poopler developer have of course better thing to do (And I don't
> blame them), and acroreader for linux does not support color
> management. Could this be an idea for student project or something
> like that?
>
> If you don't understand what I'm talking about try to open this pdf on
> a linux system
> http://ltgustavsen.googlepages.com/pdftest3.pdf
>
>
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