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[Digital BW] Re: linearization and Quadtone RIP

2003-10-03 by Roy Harrington

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, john 
eckenrode <ejohn182002@y...> wrote:
> Peter, Roy
> 
> Thanks, that makes things easy. Thanks for your input.
> Actually here's another side question for Roy. Is it
> difficult to put a graphic interface on something like
> QTR? 

It's certainly possible, and I may get around to it someday.
But for now I don't have the time to figure that part out.

Roy

This is a naive question, I honestly have no clue
> about these things. Last night I just thought that
> would be nice for people like me, a graphic designer
> by trade, that function better when pretty pictures
> are involved. In reality QTR is pretty easy to figure
> out as is, I was just mildly curious. Again thanks for
> all your work on this Roy.
> 
> John
> 
> --- Roy Harrington <roy@h...> wrote:
> > 
> > Thanks, Peter, that's correct.  You can use anything
> > that measures
> > density -- the calc-density script is just a simple
> > way to use the i1
> > output.
> > 
> > Roy
> > 
> > --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com,
> > "Peter Baumbach" <
> > info@p...> wrote:
> > > I think that Calc-Density is only necessary to
> > calculate the density 
> > > from the xyz values captured by the I1. If you
> > have a densitometer 
> > > you just have to measure the densities of all
> > steps and enter these 
> > > values into the curve file (e.g. LINEARIZE="0.036
> > 0.137 0.260 0.382 
> > > 0.505 0.616 0.744 0.858 0.963 1.054 1.133 1.213
> > 1.287 1.357 1.418 
> > > 1.467 1.519 1.559 1.587 1.627 1.666 ").
> > > 
> > > Hope that's right.
> > > Peter
> > > 
> > > peter baumbach - fine art photography
> > > http://www.pb-photo.com
> > > 
> > > --- In
> > DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com,
> > "ejohn182002" 
> > > <ejohn182002@y...> wrote:
> > > > Apparently QTR can automatically linearize a
> > curve using eye-one or 
> > > a densitometer. I 
> > > > want to do this using a densitmeter but the
> > instructions seem to 
> > > only be for eye-one 
> > > > as far as I can decipher. So, can I in fact
> > linearize with a 
> > > densitometer and, if yes, then 
> > > > does anyone know how to enter the data so
> > Calc-Density can do its 
> > > work? Thanks in 
> > > > advance for any advice.
> > > > John Eckenrode
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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