Digital BW, The Print

Roy, somehow I am still missing the point.

Yes I have been opening with wordpad and just to make sure looked at 
the files with a hex viewer.

But the Windows profiles are files like "EEM_2200-cool.quad" while 
the MAC profiles are files like "UC-EEnhMatte-cool-1.txt"

It is not at all clear to me how to get from the latter that are 
text files to the former that are "compiled"

...John 



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Roy 
Harrington" <roy@h...> wrote:
> 
> Byte for byte they are identical.
> You are probably looking at the file with Notepad.  Yes, they look
> weird but that is because on Windows the end of line marker is a
> <carriage-return><line-feed> where as on Mac/Unix they just use
> a <line-feed>.  So Notepad thinks it's one big line.
> I think WordPad will read the file and show the separated lines.
> 
> Roy
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "johnglodge" 
> <john.lodge@s...> wrote:
> > Hi Roy, I must be missing something. When I look at the MAC 
profiles 
> > they are in Text Files that can be edited and the file layout 
makes 
> > it obvious what a little tweeking would be.
> > 
> > On the other hand in the XP case the .quad files are a lot more 
> > opaque or so its seems to me.
> > 
> > ...John 
> > 
> > --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Roy 
> > Harrington" <roy@h...> wrote:
> > > --- In 
DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "johnglodge" 
> > <john.lodge@s...> 
> > > wrote:
> > > > Roy, that is interesting but how do you do that with the 
WinXP 
> > > > version where the ink levels are buried in a binary file.
> > > > 
> > > > ...John
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Hi John,
> > > 
> > > There really isn't anything "buried" in any files.  Neither 
WinXP 
> > nor MacOSX have
> > > anything to do with figuring out what goes to the printer.  
> > Everything that happens
> > > from the individual grayscale pixels all the way to each 
> > individual dot on the
> > > page is under the control of QTR.  The OS's do nothing more 
than 
> > pass the info
> > > along, dealing with spooling and usb hardware.
> > > 
> > > Roy