Argyll CMS documentation index (V1.8.3)

Introduction

This is Version 1.8.3, a bug fix update to V1.8.2. The first public release of icclib was in November 1998, and of Argyll was in October 2000. Code development commenced in 1995. See Changes Summary for an overview of changes since the last release. Changes between revisions is detailed in the log.txt file that accompanies the source code.

The latest source code is available from here.

Please note that instruments are being driven by ArgyllCMS drivers, and that any problems or queries regarding instrument
operation should first be directed to the Argyll's author(s) or the Argyll mailing list, and not to any other party.

An Introduction to Color Management

A great introduction for non technical people is Steve Upton's The Color of Toast.

Operating Environments

Argyll is known to compile and run in at least the following environments:

but may well compile and run correctly in many more than this, including OS X 10.8, 10.9 and 10.10 & MSWin 10.

If you've decided to buy a color instrument because Argyll supports it, please let the dealer and manufacturer know that "You bought it because Argyll CMS supports it" - thanks.

Please note that instruments are being driven by ArgyllCMS drivers, and that any problems or queries regarding instrument
operation should be directed to the Argyll's author(s) or the Argyll mailing list, and not to any other party.

There is a list of contributed ccmx (Colorimeter Correction Matrix) files for some display/colorimeter combinations.

Copyright, Licensing & Trade Mark:

Most of the source code and provided executable files are copyrighted works, licensed under the Affero GNU Version 3 license, and therefore they (or works derived from them) can't be copied, sold or made available to users interacting with them remotely through a computer network, without providing the source code. Nothing other than your agreement and compliance with the Affero GNU License grants you permission to use, modify or distribute ArgyllCMS source code, executables or its derivative works. You could be sued for copyright infringement if you use or distribute ArgyllCMS without a valid license. The Affero GNU license prohibits extending these tools (i.e. by combining them with other programs or scripts that make use of, depend on, or work with the ArgyllCMS code) and distributing them, unless all the elements of the extensions are also made available under a GPL compatible license. It is permissible to provide ArgyllCMS tools with other non GPL components if the elements of the package are not related, such that the packaging is mere aggregation. For all the gory details, please read the accompanying license.

The ArgyllCMS is Copyright 1995 - 2015 Graeme W. Gill, and is made available under the terms of the Affero GNU General Public License Version 3, as detailed in the License.txt file. Documentation is licensed under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3. The author asserts his moral rights over this material in relationship to the attribution and integrity of these works. In particular, if these works are modified in a way that materially changes their functionality, then the modified works should be renamed in a way that clearly distinguishes them from "Argyll" or "ArgyllCMS" so that the effects of such changes do not reflect on the original works integrity or the original authors reputation. A subset of files (those that are related to the color instrument drivers, and are collected together into the instlib.zip archive by the spectro/instlib.ksh script + xicc/ccmx.h and xicc/ccmx.c) are licensed under the General Public License Version 2 or later, as detailed in the License2.txt file.

Portions of the ColorHug instrument library (spectro/colorhug.[ch]) are Copyright 2011, Richard Hughes, and is licensed under the General Public License Version 2 or later, as detailed in the License2.txt file.

The tool spectro/spec2cie.c is Copyright 2005 Gerhard Fuernkranz, and is made available under the terms of the GNU General Public License Version 2 or later, and is licensed here under the Version 3 license, as detailed in the License3.txt file.

The Win32 USB library libusb-win32 kernel drivers are included in this distribution in the usb/driver and usb/bin directories, and are copyright Stephan Meyer and Travis Robinson, and are licensed under the GNU Version 2 or later (the drivers, services, installer). See  usb/driver/License.txt, libusbw/COPYING_LGPL.txt and libusbw/COPYING_GPL.txt for details. Additional terms noted on the website are "This license combination explicitly allows the use of this library in commercial, non-Open-Source applications."

The icc library in icc/, the CGATS library in cgats/, the jcnf library in jcnf/, the files spectro/xdg_bds.*, spectro/aglob.* and the ucmm library in ucmm/ are Copyright 1995 - 2015 Graeme W. Gill, and available according to the "MIT" license granted in the icc/License.txt and cgats/License.txt files, and the licenses at the top of ucmm/ucmm.c and jcnf/jcnf.c.

The yajl library in jcnf/yajl is Copyright (c) 2007-2014, Lloyd Hilaiel <me@lloyd.io> and is used under an ISC License granted in the yajl/COPYING files. The yajl library has been repackaged and modified slightly to adds some features and for packaging and build convenience.

The TIFF library included in this distribution for convenience, has its own copyright and license detailed in tiff/COPYRIGHT (an "MIT"/"BSD" like license).

The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG library included in this distribution for convenience, has its own copyright and license detailed in jpg/README (an "MIT"/"BSD" like license). Executables that include JPEG format support are based in part on the work of the Independent JPEG Group.

xicc/iccjpeg.h and xicc/iccjpeg.c are from lcms and they are Copyright (c) 1998-2010 Marti Maria Saguer and is licensed under an "MIT"/"BSD" like license. See the top of the iccjpeg.c file for the detailed copyright and licensing conditions.

The mongoose web server software is Copyright (c) 2004-2011 Sergey Lyubka, and is licensed under an "MIT" license.

The axTLS library is Copyright (c) 2008, Cameron Rich, and the license is detailed in ccast/axTLS/LICENSE file (an "MIT"/"BSD" like license).
It is not used for any security sensitive purpose, but is used purely to communicate with the ChromeCast.

The X3DOM x3dom.css and x3dom.js files are Copyright (C) 2009 X3DOM and licensed dual "MIT" and "GPL" license. See plot/X3DOM_LICENSE.txt.

"ArgyllCMS" is a trade mark. It is permissible to refer to copies or derivatives of this software as being the same as ArgyllCMS if they are materially  unchanged, and retain all the functionality provided by the software made available at www.argyllcms.com. Modified versions of this software that are materially changed or have missing functionality must be clearly marked as such, so as not to to be confused with ArgyllCMS.

What sort of project is this ? (re: contributions)

Compiling

Installing

Graphic User Interfaces

Main Tools and the command line

In order to make use of the tools, it is necessary to keep track of where various files are, and what they are called. There are many possible ways of doing this. One way is to put each source profile and all its associated files (test charts, spectrometer values etc.) in one set of directories for each source profile type. Similarly the device profiles could be stored in a hierarchy of directories ordered by device type, media, resolution, device mode etc. Naturally you will want to set your $PATH so that you can run the tools from whichever directory you are in, as well as specify any necessary directory paths for file arguments so that the tools are able to open them.

Note that there are two ways the Argyll tools deal with filename extensions. In one you supply the extension (ie. you supply the whole file name), so the extension is up to you. In the other (used where one name is used for input and output files, or where there are multiple output files), the program adds the extension. In the documentation this should be indicated by calling it a "base name".

For more information on using a command line environments, consult an appropriate tutorial:

MS Windows :
   <http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/tutorial76.html>
   <http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=1723&page=1>
   <http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles/command_line.shtml>

    To find more: <http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=windows+command+prompt+tutorial>

OS X:
    <http://www.osxfaq.com/Tutorials/LearningCenter/>
    <http://www.atomiclearning.com/macosxterminalx.shtml>
    <http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mac/2001/12/14/terminal_one.html>

    To find more: <http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=OS+X+shell+tutorial>

Linux:
    <http://www.linuxcommand.org/index.php>
    <http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/shell.html>
    <http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/>

    To find more: <http://www.google.com/search?q=linux+command+line+shell+tutorial>

Note that since OS X is based on UNIX, there is much in common between the OS X and Linux command line environments, and many of the UNIX tutorials may be useful:

    <http://www.rain.org/~mkummel/unix.html>

Tutorial: Typical usage scenarios and examples

Topical Discussions

Flow diagram of Major Tools:

Main Tools by category:

Calibrating devices

Creating test targets for profiling or print calibration

Obtaining test results for profiling or print calibration

Creating Device Profiles

Creating Device Link Profiles

Converting colors or applying print calibration

Color Tweaking tools

Creating gamut views

Diagnostic and test tools

Other Tools

Main Tools Alphabetic Listing:

Environment Variables

Performance Tuning

Overview

Limitations

Organization

Source

Minor Tools

File formats that Argyll uses

Errors, Corrections and Omissions: