Thanks for your answer and for your time.
As I mentioned, I am a relative beginner with QTR. I suspect most of my difficulties have to do with not understanding the program and the instructions for it.
FYI I am the system admin for several multi-node video editing media servers, so I'm not a novice with complex PC based computers and software problems. This situation is making me feel like a bit of a dunce.
I am working in Windows 8.2, which up to now I have found quite compatible with every program I've loaded.
I am using QTR because so many people have praised and recommended it, but I am finding it very un-intuitive and a struggle.
My goal is to make enlarged digital negatives for contact printing.
I am editing the qidf file in a text editor for two reasons:
1) Curve Creation does not work -- at all. When I've tried it by creating a curve and then attempted to save it or "Show Curve" the system just grinds away and even after as long as 15 minutes has never saved anything or displayed a curve. I have done a clean install of the program several times, without effect.
2) I cannot find a way to open and modify a specific curve in Curve Creation. I normally work by changing what I have previously done, saving, then testing. Change - save - test. There does not appear to be a way to do this, although this could easily be happening because Curve Creation just isn't working properly.
At your suggestion is put the qidf file I made in the location you suggested
C:\Users\[your user name]\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files (x86)\QuadToneRIP"
QTR still does not find it.
I have found the qidf profiles for printers at
C:\Users\[your user name]\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files (x86)\QuadToneRIP\profiles\PRINTER_NAME" and had put the profiles I made in that same location. As above moving one of my custom profiles to the location you suggested did not make it appear. In fact, the one that been displayed in the pulldown has now disappeared.
Now that I've written all this the problem sounds even more like there is a problem with the program install or perhaps the program is incompatible with Win 8.2 (which makes me wonder what will happen when Microsoft begins pushing 10).
I read your guide and imagine it will be quite helpful if I can ever get anything to work as it should.
Any additional thoughts will be appreciated.
Thanks again,
Jeff Redman
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Re: [QuadtoneRIP] QTR can't find the qidf file I just created.
2015-07-22 by Paul Roark
That's interesting that the original install did not put the existing profiles in \Program files. That may be another step by MS to protect that directory. I wonder if as admin you could make the appropriate folder in \Program Files (x86) and manually save some of the QTR files there. Not the under \quadtonerip there are both a Profiles folder for the *.qidf files and a QuadTone
Does QTR find any of the files that were installed along with the program?
I think Win 8 is a major part of your problem. Particularly if you are using the "Show Curves" to save, it'll probably just hang on an apparent graphics incompatibility introduced by Win 8.
Be sure your printer driver is installed.
With the Win8 problems, I wonder if the Mac side procedures might be sources of help, but it sounds like you've read over some of those already.
I've been waiting for someone to report on Win 10, which I guess is shipping now. I suppose it's wishful thinking that they'd give us better backward compatibility here. The graphics end of Win must have totally changed with the touchscreen tech.
Good luck, and keep up posted.
Paul
On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 11:00 AM, jp432r@winfirst.com [QuadtoneRIP] <QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com> wrote: