On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 23:07 +0100, Alastair M. Robinson wrote: > Hi :) > > Leonard Evens wrote: > > > Searching the eog development archives, I found > > notes to the effect that color management only worked for files with > > imbedded color profiles. (This is considered a defect.) I don't know > > if that means it uses only the imbedded profile or if it means that it > > will only make use of the system display profile if there is a profile > > of any sort imbedded in the file, e.g, an sRGB profile. > > I would think the latter. That agrees with what I see here, on Ubuntu 8.04. > Thanks Alastair. Your confirmation of my conjecture, together with what I've observed, is enough for me. Unfortunately, this makes eog more or less useless because I don't routinely add profiles to my image files. One possibility would be to write a shell script which would add an imbedded profile for an intermediate image file, call eog on the result, and finally remove the intermediate file. But this wouldn't work if I wanted an eog slide show. I hope the eog developers will deal with this matter sometime soon. It can't be all that difficult to do. > > Any comments? > > Try installing the following as your monitor profile: > http://www.blackfiveimaging.co.uk/pathological.icc > > (dispwin -I pathological.icc > You'll obviously have to install your real profile again when you're > done experimenting.) > > This is an RGB profile with an absurd gamma value, so any software which > honours the system monitor profile will now display very dark images, > leaving you in no doubt that the profile is being used. > > I've just done a 2-minute test here, and I only see the profile being > used if the original image (a) has an embedded profile, and (b) is a > JPEG file! > > Bizarrely, a greyscale JPEG with no embedded profile is also treated > correctly, but again, only JPEGs. > > All the best, > -- > Alastair M. Robinson