Digital BW, The Print

I've been happy linearizing my QTR curves with the LAB values in my Colormunki "palettes".  I have been typing the LAB values manually into Excel though.  Whats the smart way to open Lab values in excel with exported colormunki readings?  the only file format that Colormunki Design seems to export in is "Cxf2".  whatever that is...opening that in excel is not pretty

On 10-12-30 10:04 PM, "Yan" <ylucille@...> wrote:

> I've been happy linearizing my QTR curves with the LAB values in my Colormunki
> "palettes".  I have been typing the LAB values manually into Excel though.
> Whats the smart way to open Lab values in excel with exported colormunki
> readings?  the only file format that Colormunki Design seems to export in is
> "Cxf2".  whatever that is...opening that in excel is not pretty

I have CM Photo and using the ColorPicker I can export my readings to a CSV
file. Excel will open the CSV file and it's than an easy matter to
copy/paste the Lab values into the QTR file (I'm on a Mac). A text editor
would also work, but it would be more cumbersome.

Terry.

ah yes, I heard that apple users were blessed with the option to export the data as a CSV file.  One more reason to get a mac I suppose.  Looks like windows user need excel 2007 and newer for the IMPORTXml function.  going to try my luck with OpenOffice next.  

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Terry Ritz <t.ritz@...> wrote:

>
> On 10-12-30 10:04 PM, "Yan" <ylucille@...> wrote:
> 
> > I've been happy linearizing my QTR curves with the LAB values in my Colormunki
> > "palettes".  I have been typing the LAB values manually into Excel though.
> > Whats the smart way to open Lab values in excel with exported colormunki
> > readings?  the only file format that Colormunki Design seems to export in is
> > "Cxf2".  whatever that is...opening that in excel is not pretty
> 
> I have CM Photo and using the ColorPicker I can export my readings to a CSV
> file. Excel will open the CSV file and it's than an easy matter to
> copy/paste the Lab values into the QTR file (I'm on a Mac). A text editor
> would also work, but it would be more cumbersome.
> 
> Terry.
>

So I found a solution for other PC users who don't have Excel 2007 or later.  
Just register the colurmunki and use the "colormunki online" function to upload a given palette.  the x-rite website then allows you to download your palette in a Lab file (excel in my case).

You might find some helpful info at the link below, although I suspect
you're past this by now. . .

http://www.northlight-images.co.uk/article_pages/bw_printing/bw_print_colorm
unki.html#addendum 

Keith is a list member, btw.

Terry.

On 10-12-31 3:09 PM, "Yan" <ylucille@...> wrote:

> 
> ah yes, I heard that apple users were blessed with the option to export the
> data as a CSV file.  One more reason to get a mac I suppose.  Looks like
> windows user need excel 2007 and newer for the IMPORTXml function.  going to
> try my luck with OpenOffice next.
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Terry Ritz <t.ritz@...>
> wrote:
>> 
>> On 10-12-30 10:04 PM, "Yan" <ylucille@...> wrote:
>> 
>>> I've been happy linearizing my QTR curves with the LAB values in my
>>> Colormunki
>>> "palettes".  I have been typing the LAB values manually into Excel though.
>>> Whats the smart way to open Lab values in excel with exported colormunki
>>> readings?  the only file format that Colormunki Design seems to export in is
>>> "Cxf2".  whatever that is...opening that in excel is not pretty
>> 
>> I have CM Photo and using the ColorPicker I can export my readings to a CSV
>> file. Excel will open the CSV file and it's than an easy matter to
>> copy/paste the Lab values into the QTR file (I'm on a Mac). A text editor
>> would also work, but it would be more cumbersome.