LProf open source ICC profiler / News: Recent posts

The OpenICC has been accepted as a mentor organization by Google Summer of Code 2008 for the second year in a row. LProf is part of the OpenICC proposal for GSoC 2008 and has a number of possible student projects listed here:

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/OpenIccForGoogleSoC2008

But students applying can also propose other projects and all proposals will be given serious consideration. For a list of mentor organizations selected by GSoC 2008 look here: ... read more

The LProf http://lprof.sourceforge.net/ Google Summer of Code 2007 (tm) http://code.google.com/soc/2007/ project has been successfully completed. LProf participated under the umbrella of the OpenICC for Google Summer of Code 2007 organization http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/OpenIccForGoogleSoC2007 . The enhancements and bug fixes that were part of the project are now contained in the LProf CVS main development line and will be part of all subsequent releases. ... read more

I'm pleased to announce that Google has settled on official allocations for the Summer of Code 2007 projects, and that LProf as part of the OpenICC organization has received one of the two funded OpenICC projects this year:

http://code.google.com/soc/openicc/about.html

Joseph L. Simon III will be working on enhancing the reference file management system of LProf. Hal Engel will be mentoring Joseph on this project.... read more

The OpenICC has been accepted as a mentor organization by Google Summer of Code 2007. LProf is part of the OpenICC proposal for SoC 2007 and has a number of possible student projects listed here:

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/OpenIccForGoogleSoC2007

But students applying can also propose other projects and all proposals will be given serious consideration. For a list of mentor organizations selected by SoC 2007 look here:... read more

I'm pleased to announce that development snapshot version 1.11.4 of LProf is now available. This is the sixth development snapshot of the work that has been underway since LProf became a SourceForge project. Please see the LProf SourceForge home page at http://lprof.sourceforge.net/ for details.

This is a development snap shot of what will become version 1.12 when it is stable. Although testing by the development team indicates that this snapshot appears to be stable it is none the less a development release and as such it should not be considered a stable release. It has not been extensively tested and on some platform has had very little testing and may have significant unknown bugs. This is being made available so that users can test the new release to report problems and make suggestions for improvements.... read more

Good news for Gentoo Linux users. The Gentoo portage tree now has an ebuild for LProf version 1.11.3.1. All of you Gentoo Lunux users please give the new ebuild a go.

I'm pleased to announce that development snapshot version 1.11.3 of LPROF is now available. This is the sixth development snapshot of the work that has been underway since LPROF became a SourceForge project. Please see the LPROF SourceForge home page at http://lprof.sourceforge.net/ for details.

This is a development snap shot of what will become version 1.12 when it is stable. Although testing by the development team indicates that this snapshot appears to be stable it is a development release and as such it should not be considered a stable release. It has not been extensively tested and may have significant unknown bugs. This is being made available so that users can test the new release and report problems and make suggestions for improvements.... read more

I'm pleased to announce that version 1.11.2 of LPROF is now available. LPROF is an open source application that will create ICC profiles for use with other applications such as Scribus, CinePaint, Krita, UFRAW and the development version of GIMP. This is the fifth development snap shot of the work that has been underway since LPROF became a SourceForge project.

This is a development snapshot of what will become version 1.12 when it is stable. Although testing by the development team indicates that this snapshot appears to be stable it is a development release and as such it should not considered to be a stable release. It has not been extensively tested and may have significant unknown bugs. This is being made available so that users can test the new release and report problems and make suggestions for improvements.... read more

I'm pleased to announce that version 1.11.1 of LPROF is now available. LPROF is an open source application that will create ICC profiles for use with other applications such as Scribus, CinePaint, Krita, UFRAW and the development version of GIMP. This is the second development snap shot of the work that has been underway since LPROF became a SourceForge project.

This is a development snap shot of what will become version 1.12 when it is stable. Although testing by the development team indicates that this snap shot appears to be stable it is a development release and as such it should not considered to be a stable release. It has not been extensively tested and may have significant unknown bugs. This is being made available so that users can test the new release and report problems and make suggestions for improvements.... read more

A new home page has been created for the LPROF project. It is now much better organized and has a much improved appearance. It also has a link to the help files that are distributed as part of the LPROF source code package so that potential users can get a better feel for the application before downloading it.

I'm pleased to announce that version 1.11.0 of LPROF is now available. This is the first development snap shot of the work that has been underway since LPROF became a SourceForge project.

This is a development snap shot of what will become version 1.12 when it is stable. Although testing by the development team indicates that this snap shot appears to be stable it is a development release and as such it should not considered to be a stable release. It has not been extensively tested and may have significant unknown bugs. This is being made available so that users can test the new release and report problems and make suggestions for improvements.... read more

Alex Moskalenko has package lprof 1.10.1 for the Debian distro. These are available using the following apt sources:

deb http://debian.tagancha.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
deb-src http://debian.tagancha.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib

LPROF has been updated so that it will compile with GCC 4.

LPROF-1.10 has been released. This is basically the same as lprof-1.09 that is available in many Linux distros with some updates to correct problems. The new release includes the Mark Rubin patch, a rewritten make system (has not been autotoolized yet), some bug fixes and an enhancement to allow the use of tiff input files in the measurement tool.

CVS now contains a testing version of the LPROF system. Anyone interested in testing this new version please feel free to get the code from CVS and give it a try. If you run into any problems please submitt a BUG report.

The updated version has had these things changed:

1. Updated build system. It has not been autotoolized yet. But it now installs and un-installs cleanly.

2. The Mark Rubin patches are now included. No need to patch the code.... read more

On August 15, 2005 the LPROF project was created in SourceForge. This project will continue the work started by Marti Maria, the author of lcms, on the Little CMS Profiler.

LPROF is the only open source ICC profiler with a graphical user interface (GUI). It can be used to create profiles for cameras, scanners and monitors.

At this time a small team is working on doing some clean up to the widely distributed version 1.09. This work will include an improved make system and an update that will allow LPROF to work with tiff files. The resulting updates should become available in the next few weeks. Stay tuned.