QTR-Quadtone RIP

Hi Everyone,

I'm looking for a little help - can't find the answer in the archives and my mouse finger is 
raw from trial and error research...

I'm trying to construct a 7-ink QTR profile from scratch. This is to make digital negatives 
using a home-grown workflow, so the commercially available print-oriented profiles are 
not what I want. 

I have figured out the QTR stuff, and I've put together a set of curves on Excel - now 
my question:

***How do I import the excel data into QTR?***

QTR data syntax in the ink descriptor file for individual ink curves seems to be 
CURVE_X="location1;value1 location2;value2 etc..."   In other words each input/output pair 
has a semi-colon between the two numbers and each pair is separated from the next pair 
by a space. 

I added columns to the Excel worksheet containing the input values (which are evenly 
spaced) followed a semi colon, for each output value. I have tried about 50 ways to save 
the Excel data strings as a text file, including re-opening in Excel and so on, but I can't 
seem to get rid of the spaces after the semi-colons except by hand-editing the text file.

Does anyone have an easier way???  Thanks for any help! 

And how would I import a .acv? 

I'm working with Tiger and QTR 2.4.3

Ben Altman

www.benaltmanphotographs.com