- LittleCMS
Infobox_Software
name = Little CMS
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latest_release_version = 1.17
latest_release_date =July 28 ,2007
operating_system =Cross-platform
genre =Color management
license =MIT License
website = http://littlecms.comLittleCMS or LCMS is an
open source colour management system , released as asoftware library for use in other programs. It is licenced under theMIT License Agreement.LCMS was one of the first open sourced CMS systems and is currently the only one with a GUI. It was initiated by Marti Maria in 1998. As part of the development efforts and as a proof of concept, Marti also made
LPROF , a Qt based profiler suite demonstrating the capabilities of LCMS.LCMS was hosted on SourceForge.net in 2001, and has had a stable set of releases since then. It is commonly part of many Linux distributions.
LPROF was orphaned and unsupported from early 2004 until August 2005, when LPROF moved from Marti's site to SourceForge.net and active maintenance was taken over by Gerard Klaver, Craig Ringer and Hal Engel. It is now back in development again (with Marti's consent), and is reportedly producing profiles of high quality. [ [http://www.tkupfer.de/imaging/Scan_Profiling.html Theo Kupfer Systementwicklung & Beratung ] ] LPROF has also started to use parts of the functionality of [http://www.argyllcms.com Argyll CMS] , another Open Sourced CMS by Graeme Gill.
Usage
LCMS has been used in
*
Scribus
*Mozilla Firefox
*Krita
*ImageMagick
*Inkscape
* Sun plans to use LittleCMS inOpenJDK as a replacement for The nativecolor management . [ [http://openjdk.java.net/groups/2d/ Java2D project page] ]
* LCMS is also notable for being one of the proposed systems for colour management in the GIMP image editor, [ [http://www.khk.net/color/gimp.html Free Color Management - Gimp Stuff ] ] which will allow the use ofInternational Color Consortium profiles.
* ICC ExaminReferences
See also
*
GIMP image editor
*Color space
*Linux color management External links
* [http://littlecms.com/ littlecms.com]
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