Digital BW, The Print

Hi Tyler,

I just use AppleWorks spreadsheet to draw graphs. 
I use the MeasureTool data output files -- there's no "density" but I use the Lab data.
It would be hard to imagine anything much easier:
1) drag the data text file into Works -- all the columns are separated nicely.
2) sort the data, 2 keys.
3) select the columns you want
4) hit chart, line diagram.
 about 10 seconds to a graph.

The legends etc.  take more time of course.

Roy



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Tyler Boley" <tyler@t...> 
wrote:
> thanks, I should just bite the bullet and buy colorshop, been dinking
> around with their demos in various versions for way too long.
> Know of anything that will easily build plots like this-
> http://photoshopnews.com/stories/images/BW-Chronicles/ultrasmooth-
linearity.png
> from data files? Or do i need to just build them by hand?
> Tyler
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "dfaprinting"
> <dfaprinting@y...> wrote:
> > Depending on the tool you are using to measure, there might be 
> > something better. Ernst made a post several weeks ago about Xrite's 
> > Colorport which allows making targets for several different 
> > measurement tools, and then measuring those printed targets. It's 
> > very much like MeasureTool, but it's FREE. A quick search of the 
> > archives, or the Xrite site would pull up the download link. And yes 
> > I do recall that it is PC and Mac friendly. It might be over kill for 
> > measuring a 21 step target, but it does allow for a few things like 
> > changing the observer color temp and angle. It will export to CSV and 
> > TAB and SPACE delimited text files with Lab, XYZ, spectral, and maybe 
> > one other I can't remember (density maybe?). It will also save a 
> > CGATS standard type measurement file (there's an example in one of my 
> > posts). It's worth the download if you device is supported.
> > 
> > Also, again depending on the measurement tool, you can get the same 
> > data from Xrite's ColorshopX, which does some spectral (per 
> > measurement)graphing, as well as 2D and 3D graphing of measured 
> > samples (Lab), and a bunch of other things including editing ICC 
> > profiles, and well more than I'll go into now. 14 day demo, $99 price 
> > directly from Xrite. It's been worth my $99 so far, but it might be 
> > more worthwhile to full color users, not that some of the tools 
> > aren't useful for B/W.
> > 
> > If you want I can give you a list of some of the common features I 
> > find useful, and maybe a few screen captures from Colorshop, I would 
> > say read the manual, and while it will give you a rough idea about 
> > the tools, it is not what I would call in-depth.