linkicc (1)

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Shiju P. Nair September 30, 2004

(The comments found at the beginning of the groff file "man1/linkicc.1".)

NAME

linkicc - little cms device link generator.

SYNOPSIS

linkicc [options] <profiles>

DESCRIPTION

lcms is a standalone CMM engine, which deals with the color management. It implements a fast transformation between ICC profiles. linkicc is little cms device link generator. Links two or more profiles into a single devicelink profile. Colorspaces must be paired except Lab/XYZ, that can be interchanged.

OPTIONS

-8

Creates 8-bit devicelink.

-b

Black point compensation.

-c <0,1,2,3>

Precission (0=LowRes, 1=Normal, 2=Hi-res). [defaults to 1]

-d description

Description text (quotes can be used).

-h <0,1,2,3>

Show summary of options and examples.

-i profile

Input profile (defaults to sRGB).

-k <0..400>

Ink-limiting in % (CMYK only)

-o profile

Output devicelink profile. [defaults to 'devicelink.icm']

-t <0,1,2,3>

Intent (0=Perceptual, 1=Colorimetric, 2=Saturation, 3=Absolute).

-x

Creatively, guess deviceclass of resulting profile.

Built-in profiles:
        *Lab  -- D50-based CIEL*a*b (PCS)
        *XYZ  -- CIE XYZ (PCS)
        *sRGB -- sRGB color space
        *Gray22- Monochrome of Gamma 2.2
        *Lin2222- CMYK linearization of gamma 2.2 on each channel

EXAMPLES

To create 'devicelink.icm' from a.icc to b.icc:
        linkicc a.icc b.icc

To create 'out.icc' from sRGB to cmyk.icc:
        linkicc -o out.icc *sRGB cmyk.icc

To create a sRGB input profile working in Lab:
        linkicc -x -o sRGBLab.icc *sRGB *Lab

To create a XYZ -> sRGB output profile:
        linkicc -x -o sRGBLab.icc *XYZ *sRGB

To create a abstract profile doing softproof for cmyk.icc:
        linkicc -t1 -x -o softproof.icc *Lab cmyk.icc cmyk.icc *Lab

To create a 'grayer' sRGB input profile:
        linkicc -x -o grayer.icc *sRGB gray.icc gray.icc *Lab

To embed ink limiting into a cmyk output profile:
        linkicc -x -o cmyklimited.icc -k 250 cmyk.icc *Lab

NOTES

For suggestions, comments, bug reports etc. send mail to info@littlecms.com.

SEE ALSO

jpgicc(1), tificc(1), psicc(1), transicc(1),

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Shiju p. Nair <shiju.p@gmail.com>, for the Debian project.