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Opened by Christoph Lipka - 2010-04-28
Last edited by Christoph Lipka - 2010-06-19
FS#104 - Output file gamma broken for File_Gamma=1.0
Setting File_Gamma=1.0 produces unexpectedly bright output files for most output file formats, as if File_Gamma was set to 2.2 instead.
The underlying problem is a bug that, when File_Gamma is set to exactly 1.0, causes the encoding gamma function to be undefined, which was not meant to happen in current versions, and instead was reserved for future versions to signal that a file-format-specific default encoding gamma should be used. The image file output handlers already support this, most of them choosing the sRGB transfer function, giving roughly the same output as setting File_Gamma=2.2.
As a preliminary workaround, users may want to set File_Gamma=1.02 (any value smaller than 0.99 or greater than 1.01 should do).
Saturday, 19 June 2010, 01:14 GMT
Reason for closing: Fixed
Additional comments about closing:
No further beta tester feedback for way
over a month now; I consider that good
news.
fixed with change #4958.