On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 8:04 PM, Martin Owens wrote:
I get the feeling your thinking of tiff and not jpeg.
I'm thinking of both TIFF, JPEG, and PNG. Maybe even WebP, although presently I have no gut feeling how far this one is going to go.
My point is that I'd like bitmaps color-managed in Inkscape. Well, in fact, no. I'd like all of Inkscape to be revisited with regards to how it manages color.
When it's time to open development of 0.94 as per the roadmap and start working on exporting for professional printing, you are going to run into massive changes, e.g.:
- introducing Scribus-like document settings, e.g. a single color profile for all fills/strokes (instead of the CMS tab which you plan to kill off, fortunately); - doing color transforms for vector objects in the clipboard and imported vector data; - doing color transforms for vector and bitmap objects at the export time, if the target color space is something else; - handling spot colors; - making all color/bitmap widgets color-managed (they probably aren't yet).
...and the list goes on.
Introducing proper color transforms for bitmaps is just one part of that plan, should you choose to do it. And GdkPixbuf is most probably not your friend there.
Alex