Digital BW, The Print

I put up the .quad files for PC users before they had the capability to 
use the text ink descriptor files.  The ink descriptor files have now 
been added to the QUAD2200 archive.  These were originally for use on 
the Mac so I'm not sure if any special formating is required for the 
PC.  I just added a .qidf suffix.

Carl

On Apr 9, 2005, at 1:49 PM, Stephen Billard wrote:

>
> The Quad Ink Descriptor Files (.qidf) are the "human readable" form of 
> the curve
> files. Kind like the difference between Source Code and Object Code in 
> computer
> programming if that means anything to you. There is more information 
> in the
> .qidf file in some cases, information that is only needed when 
> creating the
> .quad curve, not when using it for printing.
>
> The Ucmk-MBW-Cool.quad file you have did not come from the QuadToneRIP
> installation. You probably got it from Carl Schofield's WEB site. Last 
> I looked,
> he wasn't providing the ink descriptor files to go with his quad files.
>
> -Stephen
>  www.sbillard.org/Stephen
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Tom Husband [mailto:thusband@...]
>> Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 7:59 PM
>> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
>> Subject: [Digital BW] QTR .quad and .qidf
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> In my quad2200 folder in the quadtone folder I have .quad
>> paper profiles/curves.  In my 2200-uc folder in the profiles
>> folder I have .qidf paper profiles/curves.  When I go into
>> Curve Creation in QTR and open a file it's a .qidf.  Sorry
>> but what's the difference between .qidf and .quad?  I have
>> UC-EEnhMatte-cool.quad and UC-EEnhMatte-cool.qidf but I only
>> have UCmk-MBW-cool.quad and not UCmk-MBW-cool.qidf.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Tom
>>