From koffice  Sat Oct 07 09:18:52 2000
From: Matthias Elter <me () ns ! lst ! de>
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 09:18:52 +0000
To: koffice
Subject: Re: Krayon - color spaces
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On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 11:08:59AM +0200, Thomas wrote:
> It would indeed be a great help to be the first unix program to do
> more then 8 bits per channel, which is possible you said.
> 
> Let me then ask you for a next step; more then 3 channels. 

The old KImageShop code could handle any number of channels.

> It is known that for print you have to have your images in CMYK, that is
> 4 channels. Typically with procentile values (so 100 steps instead of
> the 256 8 bits produces)
> 
> It would be very nice to see CMYK support as well, meybe even with 16 bits
> per channel.

The problem with CMYK is converting it to RGB and back. You need color profiles to do it right, there is not real algorithm to do this.

Bye,
Matthias