Bug#768163: CUPS and CM option
Hi Till and Joe,
Le mardi, 25 novembre 2014 16.02:53, vous avez écrit :
> Yes, cups-filters already is already implemented for color management.
>
> The original color-management-patch was more specialized for handling
> "PPD per-queue" operations. So there might have been some confusion
> as to its purpose in the last few years.
>
> The patch itself is still useful for individuals who want a modified
> interface for per-queue, but as Mike told me during the summer, this
> is not something that can be supported "officially" through the web
> interface.
>
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 2:59 AM, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> > I think we do not really need this patch. What is does is allowing
> > to set color calibration mode as default setting for a print queue
> > via the CUPS web interface. But this option should only be set when
> > calibrating the printer, not permanently, so Mike Sweet is right
> > that this is a per-job option. It makes much more sense to post
> > feature requests for the print dialogs (GTK, KDE, ...) or even to
> > let it only get supplied by color calibration apps when sending the
> > jobs with the calibrartion pages.
> >
> > The actual execution of the option happens completely in
> > cups-filters, as the color correction based on the ICC profiles is
> > done there.
Thanks for your feedback; I will be dropping the patch in the next CUPS
upload to Debian, hopefully in time for Jessie.
Cheers,
OdyX
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