Little CMS 1.15 review

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Little cms intends to be a small-footprint, speed optimized color management engine in open source form. Since the initial release

License: MIT/X Consortium License
File size: 759K
Developer: Little CMS
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Little cms intends to be a small-footprint, speed optimized color management engine in open source form.

Since the initial release, back in 1998, lcms has been continuously evolving, mostly thanks to contributions done by skilled programmers, who generously donated their valuable time to review the engine and the documentation.

For now, little cms has been ported to a big number of platforms and is currently used in many open source and commercial products, as well as being distributed in major linux environments. Thanks to all for this great support!

Basic Features:

Widely portable.
Easy to use.
Small, tight code.
Fast, optimized for speed.
Handles a wide range pixel formats.
Implements ICC spec 4
Profile to profile and multiprofile transforms.
Supports all kind of profiles, including named color
PostScript CSA and CRD generation

Advanced features:

Full hi-fi support, including hexachrome restoration.
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

What's New in This Release:
Black preservation on CMYK-> CMYK transforms
Ability to set adaptation state of observer on absolute colorimetric transforms.
New virtual NULL profile for building gamut check transforms.
New virtual Lab4 identity profile
Support for new tags as per ICC spec 4.3
CGATS.13/IT8 parser now supports multiple tables and other goodies like specifying flot format.
New tiffdiff utility
New Matlab wrapper. Matlab is a commercial scientific language widely used in industry.
Revamped icctrans
jpegicc and tifficc now can save (grab) embedded profiles.
Lots of bug fixes

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