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  Re: Printing POV Images on a Press  
From: Jérôme Grimbert
Date: 4 Feb 2001 09:12:15
Message: <3A7D5AC4.F22E5458@infonie.fr>
Ron Parker wrote:

> On Sat, 3 Feb 2001 22:44:33 +0100, Peter J. Holzer wrote:
> >Why not perform the RGB->CMYK conversion in a separate program? This
> >doesn't seem to need any information about the scene, so it doesn't
> >benefit from being implemented as a postprocess filter. OTOH, it needs
> >information about the output device, which povray doesn't (and
> >shouldn't) have (except for gamma correction).
>
> My thought was that it might benefit from having the higher-precision color
> information that's available to a postprocess filter, but that might not make
> it worthwhile.
>

Then output a 16 bit per channel PNG from POV, you should have enough
precision...
Or should we go back to a 'new' format for output picture ?


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