Monitor correction chart?

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Tue Aug 9 13:35:09 UTC 2005


On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 12:46:44AM +0300, Peter wrote:
> No, they all want *standard* color output. Maybe the web browser does 
> not count so much but it's nice to know it's accurate when you visit a 
> nice photography site or when you are trying to calibrate your 
> *monitor* (grin). Color calibration is not about conversion, it's about 
> making the result uniform and reliable, no matter where it coms from.

What if your monitor is so crappy it can't be calibrated to anything
useful?

> You just listed 50% of the popular applications run under guis ;-)

I hardly run any of them.

> So since the ICC correction device will likely be large and heavy to 
> work well, why repeat it in every application ?
> 
> One hack I have thought of is to use a xvfb style X server and teleport 
> its contents through a ICC corrected second server to a real screen. It 
> would be a slow and heavy hack but it should make it possible to apply 
> correction to any software (until this makes its way into the X 
> servers). It is also relatively easy to implement (I am not 
> volunteering).

Or you could intercept the X calls in the standard X libraries so all
calls to X could have all colour information modified before being
passed to the X server for rendering.  An X proxy might even be a good
place to test it. :)

Lennart Sorensen
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