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== Features == == Features ==
-* see the [http://www.behrmann.name/index.php?option=com_content+* see the [http://www.behrmann.name/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=32&Itemid=1 ICC Examin] page for an overview
 + 
 +== Usage ==
 +ICC Examin can be launched from the Application folder or Dock on Mac OS X and from the Graphics menu on Linux.
 + 
 +=== File opening ===
 +From the application windows menubar you can select File->Open to show the file dialog. Select one or more files for gamut comparision as you like. On top right side of the FLTK file selector resides the bookmark alias Favourites button. If you frequently visit directories you will find it usefull to append these directories to yout bookmark list. To do this, go to an directory with the file selector and choose from the bookmark button the add entry. The added directory appears in the bookmark list and is available for later use.
 + 
 +You have selected one file and pressed ok. ICC Examin starts to parse the file, showing the yellow progressbar. Depending on the complexity of the file it may take some time to finish.
 + 
 +=== Main window ===
 +Below the menu bar resides the tag list. It's entries are selectable.
 + 
 +You can select an tag from the taglist and watch its content in the tag window below.
 + 
 +On bottom you see the status area of the window.
 + 
 +=== Complex tags navigation ===
 +Some tags contain complex data. For such tags may appear a choicebutton below the tag list. There you can select detailed views of a complex tags endities.
 + 
 +=== 3D navigation ===
 +To navigate arround in a 3D view use the:
 +* left mouse button to rotate
 +* middle mouse button or Shift+left mouse button to move/clip
 +* right mouse button/ Strg+left button to obtain additional menus. Among the additional menus are in:
 +** top menu: the channel selection if appropriate
 +*** Slice plane submenu, with axis slicing in fly through style and rotation
 +*** Illustration submenu, with the background colour selection and text/marker switching off
 + 
 +=== Windows and Views ===
 +==== Gamut ====
 +First to call is the 3D gamut viewer. You can select it from the menu bar. It shows the gamut of the device described by the profile. If such a description is not appropriate, the external used Argyll iccgamut utility may not deliver a vrml gamut file and thus the 3D gamut view may remain empty.
 + 
 +The colour space shown is allways in CIE*Lab coordinates.
 + 
 +From the context menu (ctrl+left mouse or right mouse button) you can select the average human (CIE standard observer) visible spectral colours, as a line.
 + 
 +If meashurements are shown, theyre radius can be selected from the context menu. This is handy to easily detect dE's of above 2 or 4. The connection line goes from the measurement (white) to the deviation by the profile (red).
 + 
 +ncl2 colour spots can be enlarged or made smaller by pressing + or -.
 + 
 +==== Report View ====
 +If the profile contains measurements a report is generated. You reach this by selecting from the top menu View->Report. These measurement data are compared to what is calculated with the profile by littleCMS - the internal used CMM.
 + 
 +Such a comparision from device colours + measurements colours on the one side and device + profile/CMM colours on the other side are just one possible quality checking method.
 + 
 +More comparision styles would be nice, in giving better meaning for varying criteria. The differences are summarised in the reports top lines. Each like contains the the colour values and euclidian dE + dE2000. Two rectangles on the right side may help to see the colour differences visually. The first monitor profile is used for this.
 + 
 +The report can be exported from the File menu in html format.
 + 
 +==== CGATS view ====
 +The measurement data is taken from the profile, if available, and transformed to fit in the CGATS standard. A window can be called from the View menu to show the corrected measurement output.
 + 
 +==== Grafic card gamma tables ====
 +The gamma tables in the grafic card are shown in an external window, callable from the View menu. It shows on osX/XFree86/Xorg the RGB curves. The monitor profile can be loaded from this window in the main profile viewer window for further examination.
 + 
 +Under Linux Oyranos support must be compiled in to do so.
 + 
 +==== Help ====
 +The Help menus About button shows a short overview, license and other programers acknowledgement, who helped with providing theyre code for free.
 + 
 +== Profile elements ==
 +=== Header ===
 +Now you see the tag list has obtained some entries, showing the profiles tags. The first entry is allways the header. If the header is selected the tag window below shows many useful information about the profile. Among these information are:
 +* the internal stored size of the profile
 +* the prefered ColourMatchingModule (CMM)
 +* ICC standard version
 +* kind of usage
 +* device colour space
 +* the internal used reference colour space
 +* date of creation
 +* file type sinature (allways acsp)
 +* and some more or less meaningfull informations
 + 
 +=== Tags ===
 +Below the header, which behaves like a fixed tag, are the variable tags listed. They appear in the same order as in the file. Starting withe the tag number, then the tag signature and the type of content in the tag. The size of the tag follows and a small description gives you an idea af what the tag may be intended for.
 + 
 +==== text / desc / targ ====
 +Tags of type text are the most simple ones. they include informations about the profile like License informations, Description for displaying on behalf of the whole profile, Measurement data , in CGATS text formet and more.
 + 
 +==== curv ====
 +An other type are curves. They are shown as such. Note the coordinates are all normalised to 0.0 -> 1.0.
 + 
 +==== XYZ ====
 +XYZ tags show things like Mediawhitepoint or Primaries of monitors in the CIE*xy diagram.
 + 
 +Note: primaries and some curves are grouped to better understand theyr meaning in the profile.
 + 
 +==== mft1 / mft2 ====
 +MFT1/2 tags are complex and contain a set of peaces to do a colour transformation. The choice button below the tag view names them. You can select the matrix, in-and output curves and the CLUT. Currently only CLUTs with less than 3 dimensions in input direction are supported. This kind of tag is mostly independend of other tags. Only few tags like wtpt and chad may influence them.
 + 
 +The CLUT view has various options to visualise the table. For instance you can make table appear coloured or select a channel of choice. The numbers in the status window are normalised to 0.0 -> 1.0.
 + 
 +They contain the result of hard work in researching the best translation of scattered measurements to equally spaced grid tables. Only this step makes colour transformation reasonably fast.
 + 
 +The tag is described in in verson 2 of the ICC specification. In ICC specification version 4 a new even more complex tag is introduced and is calleed mAB.
 + 
 +==== sf32 ====
 +sf32 and similiar tags may contain only numbers. Theyre interpretation depends on the name of the tag. For instance the tag named chad is used to specify a colour transformation matrix, which was originally used to normalise the measured colours to D50 standard conditions.
 + 
 +==== ncl2 ====
 +The ncl2 tag is used to store named colours in a list. This can be used to describe spot colours or describe a painters palette. Loading a profile containing such a tag into ICC Examin switches the 3D gamut view mode on. You see then the colours in 3D (CIE*Lab) and not as a list of numbers as in the tag viewer.
 + 
 + 
 +More tags can follow here...
 + 
 +== Other file formats ==
 +=== CGATS ===
 +Measurement data in CGATS format can be opened in ICC Examin. In the file selector is a dedicated filter available. The data are shown as text and in the 3D view.
 + 
 +=== VRML ===
 +A subset of vrml alias wrl files is parsed. It allowes to open colour gamuts produced with argyll and saved with ICC Examin.
 + 
 +It would be nice to allow as well lines to get parsed, which are used for visualisations by iccview for instance.
 + 
 + 
 +== Preferences ==
 +=== Language support on BSD ===
 +On BSD systems you must set shell environment variables.
 +For instance in /etc/profile or $HOME/.profile:
 + 
 + LANG=de_DE.ISO8859-1; export LANG
 + MM_CHARSET=ISO-8859-1; export MM_CHARSET
 + 
 +See further [http://www.freebsd.org/doc/de_DE.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/using-localization.html FreeBSD german i18n description]
 + 
 + 
 +[[Category:Oyranos]]

Current revision

ICC Examin is a FLTK based colour profile viewer.

The educational purpose is to show the otherwise hidden internals of ICC profiles and give users a rough estimation of the profiles quality.

Table of contents
1 Features
2 Usage

2.1 File opening
2.2 Main window
2.3 Complex tags navigation
2.4 3D navigation
2.5 Windows and Views

2.5.1 Gamut
2.5.2 Report View
2.5.3 CGATS view
2.5.4 Grafic card gamma tables
2.5.5 Help

3 Profile elements

3.1 Header
3.2 Tags

3.2.1 text / desc / targ
3.2.2 curv
3.2.3 XYZ
3.2.4 mft1 / mft2
3.2.5 sf32
3.2.6 ncl2

4 Other file formats

4.1 CGATS
4.2 VRML

5 Preferences

5.1 Language support on BSD

[edit]

Features

  • see the ICC Examin (http://www.behrmann.name/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=32&Itemid=1) page for an overview
[edit]

Usage

ICC Examin can be launched from the Application folder or Dock on Mac OS X and from the Graphics menu on Linux.

[edit]

File opening

From the application windows menubar you can select File->Open to show the file dialog. Select one or more files for gamut comparision as you like. On top right side of the FLTK file selector resides the bookmark alias Favourites button. If you frequently visit directories you will find it usefull to append these directories to yout bookmark list. To do this, go to an directory with the file selector and choose from the bookmark button the add entry. The added directory appears in the bookmark list and is available for later use.

You have selected one file and pressed ok. ICC Examin starts to parse the file, showing the yellow progressbar. Depending on the complexity of the file it may take some time to finish.

[edit]

Main window

Below the menu bar resides the tag list. It's entries are selectable.

You can select an tag from the taglist and watch its content in the tag window below.

On bottom you see the status area of the window.

[edit]

Complex tags navigation

Some tags contain complex data. For such tags may appear a choicebutton below the tag list. There you can select detailed views of a complex tags endities.

[edit]

3D navigation

To navigate arround in a 3D view use the:

  • left mouse button to rotate
  • middle mouse button or Shift+left mouse button to move/clip
  • right mouse button/ Strg+left button to obtain additional menus. Among the additional menus are in:
    • top menu: the channel selection if appropriate
      • Slice plane submenu, with axis slicing in fly through style and rotation
      • Illustration submenu, with the background colour selection and text/marker switching off
[edit]

Windows and Views

[edit]

Gamut

First to call is the 3D gamut viewer. You can select it from the menu bar. It shows the gamut of the device described by the profile. If such a description is not appropriate, the external used Argyll iccgamut utility may not deliver a vrml gamut file and thus the 3D gamut view may remain empty.

The colour space shown is allways in CIE*Lab coordinates.

From the context menu (ctrl+left mouse or right mouse button) you can select the average human (CIE standard observer) visible spectral colours, as a line.

If meashurements are shown, theyre radius can be selected from the context menu. This is handy to easily detect dE's of above 2 or 4. The connection line goes from the measurement (white) to the deviation by the profile (red).

ncl2 colour spots can be enlarged or made smaller by pressing + or -.

[edit]

Report View

If the profile contains measurements a report is generated. You reach this by selecting from the top menu View->Report. These measurement data are compared to what is calculated with the profile by littleCMS - the internal used CMM.

Such a comparision from device colours + measurements colours on the one side and device + profile/CMM colours on the other side are just one possible quality checking method.

More comparision styles would be nice, in giving better meaning for varying criteria. The differences are summarised in the reports top lines. Each like contains the the colour values and euclidian dE + dE2000. Two rectangles on the right side may help to see the colour differences visually. The first monitor profile is used for this.

The report can be exported from the File menu in html format.

[edit]

CGATS view

The measurement data is taken from the profile, if available, and transformed to fit in the CGATS standard. A window can be called from the View menu to show the corrected measurement output.

[edit]

Grafic card gamma tables

The gamma tables in the grafic card are shown in an external window, callable from the View menu. It shows on osX/XFree86/Xorg the RGB curves. The monitor profile can be loaded from this window in the main profile viewer window for further examination.

Under Linux Oyranos support must be compiled in to do so.

[edit]

Help

The Help menus About button shows a short overview, license and other programers acknowledgement, who helped with providing theyre code for free.

[edit]

Profile elements

[edit]

Header

Now you see the tag list has obtained some entries, showing the profiles tags. The first entry is allways the header. If the header is selected the tag window below shows many useful information about the profile. Among these information are:

  • the internal stored size of the profile
  • the prefered ColourMatchingModule (CMM)
  • ICC standard version
  • kind of usage
  • device colour space
  • the internal used reference colour space
  • date of creation
  • file type sinature (allways acsp)
  • and some more or less meaningfull informations
[edit]

Tags

Below the header, which behaves like a fixed tag, are the variable tags listed. They appear in the same order as in the file. Starting withe the tag number, then the tag signature and the type of content in the tag. The size of the tag follows and a small description gives you an idea af what the tag may be intended for.

[edit]

text / desc / targ

Tags of type text are the most simple ones. they include informations about the profile like License informations, Description for displaying on behalf of the whole profile, Measurement data , in CGATS text formet and more.

[edit]

curv

An other type are curves. They are shown as such. Note the coordinates are all normalised to 0.0 -> 1.0.

[edit]

XYZ

XYZ tags show things like Mediawhitepoint or Primaries of monitors in the CIE*xy diagram.

Note: primaries and some curves are grouped to better understand theyr meaning in the profile.

[edit]

mft1 / mft2

MFT1/2 tags are complex and contain a set of peaces to do a colour transformation. The choice button below the tag view names them. You can select the matrix, in-and output curves and the CLUT. Currently only CLUTs with less than 3 dimensions in input direction are supported. This kind of tag is mostly independend of other tags. Only few tags like wtpt and chad may influence them.

The CLUT view has various options to visualise the table. For instance you can make table appear coloured or select a channel of choice. The numbers in the status window are normalised to 0.0 -> 1.0.

They contain the result of hard work in researching the best translation of scattered measurements to equally spaced grid tables. Only this step makes colour transformation reasonably fast.

The tag is described in in verson 2 of the ICC specification. In ICC specification version 4 a new even more complex tag is introduced and is calleed mAB.

[edit]

sf32

sf32 and similiar tags may contain only numbers. Theyre interpretation depends on the name of the tag. For instance the tag named chad is used to specify a colour transformation matrix, which was originally used to normalise the measured colours to D50 standard conditions.

[edit]

ncl2

The ncl2 tag is used to store named colours in a list. This can be used to describe spot colours or describe a painters palette. Loading a profile containing such a tag into ICC Examin switches the 3D gamut view mode on. You see then the colours in 3D (CIE*Lab) and not as a list of numbers as in the tag viewer.


More tags can follow here...

[edit]

Other file formats

[edit]

CGATS

Measurement data in CGATS format can be opened in ICC Examin. In the file selector is a dedicated filter available. The data are shown as text and in the 3D view.

[edit]

VRML

A subset of vrml alias wrl files is parsed. It allowes to open colour gamuts produced with argyll and saved with ICC Examin.

It would be nice to allow as well lines to get parsed, which are used for visualisations by iccview for instance.


[edit]

Preferences

[edit]

Language support on BSD

On BSD systems you must set shell environment variables. For instance in /etc/profile or $HOME/.profile: 

LANG=de_DE.ISO8859-1; export LANG
MM_CHARSET=ISO-8859-1; export MM_CHARSET

See further FreeBSD german i18n description (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/de_DE.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/using-localization.html)

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