On Jun 23, 2009, at 6:13 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 7:30 AM, Jon A. Cruz wrote:
When it grabs something else (from another app's window) we could grab it as RGB, or we could possible find a current document stye that contained the same one. The latter would be a more complex piece to get right though.
Hmmmm. Say, I have a bitmap in AdobeRGB which has a much wider gamut and I want to pick a color that is out of gamut for sRGB. What would Inkscape do in this case?
Simple. What *should* happen is
1) Inkscape has been tracking color spaces of images, and knows that the one under the cursor has an AdobeRGB profile attached. 2) It grabs the original values at that location (not the adjusted ones currently used for display) 3) It gets a nice combo of original and adjusted colors.
So if the original values are RGB and the ones adjusted for display are R'G'B', then the resulting fill would be similar to
fill: RGB icc-color(AdobeRGB, R', G', B')
(with numbers instead of "R", "G" and "B", of course)
Note that by going to the original numbers we avoid re-conversion rounding error creeping in. With 8-bit components that can become significant quickly.