GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 672581
Feature request: display color space / color profile metadata in Image tab of file properties dialog
Last modified: 2012-08-20 20:25:55 UTC
This is vaguely related to bug 672580 It would be nice if when I right-clicked on an image file in nautilus and selected 'properties', the Image tab would display the colorspace and color profiles (if available) embedded in the image. Today it contains the file format, width in pixels, and height in pixels. It would be nice if it said if it is RGB or CMYK and which color profiles, if any, are embedded. The backstory here is that have some CMYK graphics and some RGB graphics in a directory. I prepared the CMYK versions to send to the printer. However, it's not clear to me which one is the CMYK one because I named the files stupidly, and I had to use ImageMagick on the command line to figure it out. It seems like an important piece of information for people who send things to a printer. I appreciate your taking the time to review this request! :)
I agree about color space - looks like libexif has a tag for color space information, so we can probably re-use the code we already have in place to fetch libexif information and just fetch the additional tag. I am not completely sure about color profile though, since that would bring us into a more complicated field (e.g. it could be a custom profile, each format might save it in a different way and so on).
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 626980 ***