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colormgr

COLORMGR(1)															       COLORMGR(1)

NAME

       colormgr - Color Manager Testing Tool

SYNOPSIS

       colormgr [ --verbose ]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the colormgr command.

       colormgr allows an administrator to view and change color profile to device mappings.

OPTIONS

       This  program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included
       below.

       --help Show summary of options.

COMMANDS

       This program takes commands with a variable number of arguments.

       create-device
	      Creates a color managed device

       create-profile
	      Create a color profile

       delete-device
	      Deletes a color managed device

       delete-profile
	      Deletes a color profile

       device-add-profile
	      Add a profile to a device that already exists

       device-get-default-profile
	      Gets the default color profile for a device

       device-get-profile-for-qualifier
	      Returns all the profiles that match a given qualifier

       device-make-profile-default
	      Makes a profile default for a specific device

       device-set-kind
	      Sets the device kind

       device-set-model
	      Sets the device model

       device-set-serial
	      Sets the device serial

       device-set-vendor
	      Sets the device vendor

       find-device
	      Find a device from the device ID

       find-device-by-property
	      Find a device with a given property value

       find-profile
	      Find a profile from the profile ID

       find-profile-by-filename
	      Find a profile from the filename

       get-devices
	      Gets all the color managed devices

       get-devices-by-kind
	      Gets all the color managed devices of a specific kind

       get-profiles
	      Gets all the available color profiles

       profile-set-filename
	      Sets the profile filename

       profile-set-qualifier
	      Sets the profile qualifier

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Richard Hughes <richard@hughsie.com>.

								 20 December,2008						       COLORMGR(1)