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QTR from command line on Windows?

2016-06-03 by richard@...

Roy, I've been skiing some work with keyboard maestro on the Mac to make installing new profiles more automated. I'm going to publish the workflow next week, but the basic idea is you select the qidf file you want to install press a key command and it launches drop-quad-profile, finds the most recently created/updates file in the library/printer/QTR/QuadTone directory and the. Open the new quad file in curve view. It is similar to what happens when you press show curve in the Windows QTRgui.


My question is, aren't the install/curve creation programs just Perl scripts? And if so, can they be launched from the command line similar to how they are on a Mac. The only reason why I can't see that being the case is that Windows isn't a UNIX based system? I'm not too up on the OS stuff so I'm just guessing here. But if new curves can be created directly from text files and not go through the gui then wouldn't that solve the curve creation with Windows 10 problems?


Richard Boutwell

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