Inside the ICC Color Device Profile
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چکیده
The ICC color device profile format promises to become the preferred method by which information about a color device will be communicated to a color management system. This paper is an ICC profile tutorial which focuses on what it takes to construct a profile compatible with the ICC specification which can be used in a color management system that recognizes these profiles. The ICC specification does not explicitly define any particular implementation, but it does imply certain behaviors of a color management system; these assumptions are also described. The current ICC specification is rev 3.0.1* and may be obtained via anonymous ftp at “icc.fogra.org” in “pub/ icc/specifications”.
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