[sane-devel] Rendering Intent for Color Management in XSANE Setup

[Enno Fennema]

Kai-Uwe Behrmann wrote:
> Am 28.07.10, 23:08 +0200 schrieb Stephan Maier:

> From and to PCS
> does not count. inProfile -> PCS -> outProfile is considered one transform.
> The PCS is not defined to have an additional step.

Maybe the following slightly different presentation may help

Scanner Colour Space
    transforme by inprofile for the scanner/camera to
PCS
    transformed by outprofile for the printer/monitor/whatever to
Output device space.


The first step is almost by definition to a larger colourspace as PCS,
either XYZ or CIElab, covers the full gamut of colours.
The second step almost certainly is into a smaller colourspace.
Here rendering intent indicates the preferred way of compressing all
possible colours into such smaller space.

Regards,
Enno Fennema