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- From: adrian@ora.COM (adrian)
- Subject: Re: What happened to the X Color Management System?
- Message-ID: <9301272117.AA00370@spike.ora.com>
- Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
- Organization: The Internet
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:17:33 GMT
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- > In O'Reilly's "R5 Update", an extremely sketchy introduction
- > is provided to the X Color Management System (Xcms) extension.
-
- It is not an extension. I don't know how you could have this
- impression after reading the chapter on Xcms in that book.
-
- > The chapter refers to a book that should have come out last
- > spring that covers the extension in great detail. However, the
- > book has been dropped by O`Reilly (according to one of their
- > customer service spokespeople).
-
- The book is on hold because it wasn't
- up to snuff yet and none of our editors have time to work
- on it at the moment. We don't know when, if ever, it
- will be completed.
-
- > Does anyone know the current status of Xcms and device-
- > independent color support? Has Xcms been superceded by XIE or
- > some other extension?
-
- Xcms is in R5 - it is part of Xlib. It is now part of Core X.
- The chapter (13 pages) on it in the R5
- update and in Vol 1 should be sufficient to understand and use it,
- they just do not go into all the colorimetry. If they don't say
- enough, please let me know what it is they don't say.
-
- If you need to learn
- about the color spaces, go to a technical library and you should
- be able to find out about them.
-
- Also, the R5 update has manpages for most of the Xcms functions
- (some obscure ones are omitted). Vol 2 has them all.
-
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