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From: Juan Manuel Guerrero <juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de>
To: djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com
Subject: ANNOUNCE: release 2 of the DJGPP port of lcms 1.17
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 02:14:36 +0100
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This is release 2 of the port of the lcms 1.17 library to MSDOS/DJGPP.


  The little cms library intends to be a small-footprint, speed optimized color
  management engine in open source form written in C.
  Here some features taken from the information provided by the lcms home page
  http://www.littlecms.com:
    Basic features:
      Widely portable.
      Easy to use.
      Small, tight code. 
      Fast, optimized for speed.
      Handles a wide range pixel formats. 
      Implements ICC spec 4.2
      Profile to profile and multiprofile transforms.
      Supports all kind of profiles, including named color
      PostScript CSA and CRD generation

    Advanced features:
      Full multicolor support, including proof direction in more than 4 inks.
      Black preservation on CMYK->CMYK transforms.
      Gamut checking.
      Softproofing.
      Precalculated device link transforms with prelinearization step.
      Virtual Gray, RGB profiles.
      CIECAM02 appearance model.
      Can write profiles as well.
      Built-In profiles.
      Specialized abstract virtual profiles.
      Ink limiting.

  Please note that this is a library only for programmers.  If you do not
  understand all these, you do not need the port.  lcms is a CMM engine;
  it implements fast transforms between ICC (international color consortium)
  profiles.  lcms is NOT a file format or display library.  lcms knows nothing
  about how to display bitmaps (JPEG, TIFF, GIF or whatever).



  DJGPP specific changes.
  =======================


  The djgpp's CVS versions of snprintf and vsnprintf have been included and
  used to compile this package, making possible to compile it even with stock
  djdev203p2.  Hard coded paths to file names that are not 8.3 clean have also
  been modified so the sources can be compiled with SFN.  All DJGPP specific
  stuff is stored in the /djgpp subdir.

  To configure and compile the package you will have to install the following
  packages too:
    ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2tk/zlib123b.zip
    ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2tk/tiff382b.zip
    ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2tk/png1222b.zip
    ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2tk/ljep6bb.zip
  or:
    ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/beta/v2tk/zlib123b.zip
    ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/beta/v2tk/tiff382b.zip
    ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/beta/v2tk/png1222b.zip
    ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/beta/v2tk/ljep6bb.zip
  Of course, you can always download newer versions of these ports if available.
  The ports stored in /current have been compiled with djdev203 and are intented
  for use with Win98SE. The ones from /beta is compiled with djdeb204 beta for
  the use with WinXP-SP2.



  The port consists of the two packages that have been compiled using
  djdev203 and that can be downloaded from ftp.delorie.com and mirrors as
  (timestamp 2007-11-05):

    lcms 1.17 binary and man format documentation:
    ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2tk/lcms117b.zip

    lcms 1.17 source:
    ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2tk/lcms117s.zip


  For the convenience of the WinXP users the binaries has been produced a
  second time using the djdev204 beta library. This package is available at
  ftp.delorie.com and mirrors as (timestamp 2007-11-05):

    lcms 1.17 binary and man format documentation:
    ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/beta/v2tk/lcms117b.zip



  Send lcms specific bug reports to <http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lcms-user>.
  Send suggestions and bug reports concerning the DJGPP port to
  comp.os.msdos.djgpp or <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>.

Enjoy.

      Guerrero, Juan Manuel <juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de>