RE: Your front end for QuadToneRIP for windows
2004-08-18 by Stephen Billard
You would have to use roll paper. I am told that the QuadToneRIP beta 3 does not yet support roll feed, though, so you would have to wait a bit. Then I guess you set the paper to a custom size that is long enough for the panorama. You might want to monitor the Digital B&W list, lots of discussions on QuadToneRIP there. DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com -Stephen www.sbillard.org/Stephen
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-----Original Message----- From: Dave Doughman [mailto:davedoughman@...] Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 7:02 PM To: 'Stephen Billard' Subject: RE: Your front end for QuadToneRIP for windows I'm going to have to buy more ink & paper at the rate I'm playing with this stuff. How would I go about custom paper sizes? I'd like to do a panorama or two somewhere down the road. Easy to do in Qimage but sounds like a gotcha from your comments -----Original Message----- From: Stephen Billard [mailto:stephen@...] Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 6:25 PM To: 'Dave Doughman' Subject: RE: Your front end for QuadToneRIP for windows All QuadToneRIP can do is print a picture to a page. It doesn't resize pictures like Qimage does. What I do is set QTRgui up to monitor a folder. Then I use Qimage to print-to-file and put it in that folder. Qimage does the print size management and QTRgui notices when it is finished and processes the actual printing. Just one thing to keep in mind. The page size you specify in Qimage has to be the printable area for the printer, not the paper size. QuadToneRIP will mess up if you give it an image that is too big to print. I will keep this program up to date with the releases of QuadToneRIP. I doubt that it is worth while integrating it into Qimage any more than the print-to-file technique. That works pretty smoothly. Only real gotchas is that the paper sizes aren't linked in the two programs. -Stephen www.sbillard.org/Stephen -----Original Message----- From: Dave Doughman [mailto:davedoughman@...] Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 6:14 PM To: 'Stephen Billard' Subject: RE: Your front end for QuadToneRIP for windows Many thanks It's now working. I did have to open the blank windows and select the options How do I set print size? I'm too used to QIMAGE. Do I set it in print shop the old fashion way? This sure makes using QuadToneRIP more convenient for us non-programmers. Many Thanks How far do you plan on going with this? I like the talk about the three of you guys putting this into QIMAGE some day. Now that we've spent a fortune on color we need to get that great B&W without the cost and poor support of ImagePrint Thanks again Dave -----Original Message----- From: Stephen Billard [mailto:stephen@...] Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 5:32 PM To: 'Dave Doughman' Subject: RE: Your front end for QuadToneRIP for windows Could you send the QTR.ini file? The most likely cause of this is that the folder structure of the QuadToneRIP program files folders is not correct. When you install QuadToneRIP, it should create the following folders: c:\program files\QuadToneRIP\bin c:\program files\QuadToneRIP\model c:\program files\QuadToneRIP\ppd c:\program files\QuadToneRIP\quadtone In the quadtone folder will be a folder for each printer you have installed. Within this folder are the curves. QTRgui loads the printer names from by examining the folders. Then when you select a printer from the drop-down, it loads the curve names from the files within this folder. That lets you use the curve drop-down to select the curves. QTRgui.exe should be in the "bin" folder. If it is, then the quadtone folder is probably missing. -Stephen www.sbillard.org/Stephen -----Original Message----- From: Dave Doughman [mailto:davedoughman@...] Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 5:18 PM To: 'Stephen Billard' Subject: RE: Your front end for QuadToneRIP for windows I've downloaded the latest version today QTRgui.exe @600,576 it then produced QTRgui.ini @ 247 when I ran the exe file In the earlier version that didn't recognize the tif file did recognize my printer and displayed the paper choices The new version doesn't recognize the printer or paper choices I've moved your program from the main QTR directory to each subdirectory - all with the same result What am I missing? -----Original Message----- From: Stephen Billard [mailto:stephen@...] Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 11:13 AM To: 'Dave Doughman' Subject: RE: Your front end for QuadToneRIP for windows One of two things. First, you may have a version of QTRgui that has a bug. Download the latest at www.sbillard.org\Shareware\QTRgui.htm <http://www.sbillard.org/Shareware/QTRgui.htm> . The second is that the file extension is not ".tif". If that is the case, let me know what the extension is, I might be able to accommodate it. -Stephen www.sbillard.org/Stephen -----Original Message----- From: Dave Doughman [mailto:davedoughman@...] Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2004 10:28 PM To: stephen@... Subject: Your front end for QuadToneRIP for windows Looks great but when I drop a tif file on the Drop Spot - it tells me I have to use tif file - but that is what I'm doing! Any suggestions? I appreciate what you are doing and look forward to having it work for me Many Thanks Dave [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]