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  • Here's pretty much everythink you want to know abour color: efg's Color Page
  • Marti Maria Saguer's Little CMS color engine.
  • The LPROF ICC profiler is based on LCMS and can create ICC profiles for cameras, scanners and monitors
  • Argyll is an experimental, open source, ICC compatible color management system. It supports accurate ICC profile creation for scanners, CMYK printers, and film recorders. Profile linking uses the latest CIECAM97 appearance model, a new gamut mapping algorithm, and a wide selection of rendering intents. It also includes code for the fastest portable 8 bit raster color conversion engine available anywhere.
  • The Scribus Open Source Desktop Publishing package does fully support a color managed workflow - even on Linux. In addition to that, it's a very good tool to create interactive PDF forms without Adobe Acrobat.
  • Wolf Faust has IT8.7 targets for a pretty good price available. He also collects links to free CM systems at http://www.coloraid.de. And he's written a CMS system for the Amiga. I should probably order a new target - mine is getting old.
  • The Behrmann site provides many informations around colour management on Linux, including actual news, tutorials, a CMS draft, the open source ICC Examin tool and a link collection.
  • Here's information about the (now dormant) Gnome gcmm. But even more important you can find information about the patent situation regarding CMS. The actual gcmm code can be found in the (DEAD LINK!) Gnome CVS repository.
  • The Generic Color Management System (GCMS) has a focus on printing using ICC profiles.
  • The SCARSE - Scanner CAlibration ReaSonably Easy is an attempt to create profiles. At this time only scanner profiles are supported.
  • The IPhotoMinusICC project also creates scanner profiles. For both these profiling tools you need an IT8.7 target. So go and order one from Wolf Faust.
  • DEAD LINK! And here is a good test image for your color experiments.
  • A page with Bruce Fraser articles
  • DEAD LINK!A list of color management related patents at http://www.frontiernet.net/~shyam/colormanagement.htm
  • DEAD LINK! The Limitations of Colour Management

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