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Re: [QuadtoneRIP] QTR Curve View

2008-03-25 by Roy Harrington

Hi Joel,

It sounds like you are well on your way.  CurveView is only for looking at what
you made -- not for actually making the profile.  This way you can see the old
profile and the new one and see the difference.  It's a great way to be curious
about the changes you make and the effects they have.

Roy

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 9:20 AM, Joel Conison <jcon77@...> wrote:
> Hi Roy,
>  No, I like to understand the software I'm using. Even though I Hahn.
>  Photo Rag is my paper of choice there are other fine papers out there
>  & I need to build curves that weren't included.
>  So I went through the steps of building one for the Hahnemuhl. Made an
>  ink descriptor file, dropped it into Drop Quad Profile, printed the 21
>  step gary scale, read it with the I1, put the density readings into my
>  descriptor file (linearize), & dropped it into the Drop- Quad-Profile
>  & it created a Hahn.quad & put it into my profile folder (just like it
>  should).
>  Now, am I missing a step with QTR Curve View application?
>  Thanks,
>  Joel
>
> On Mar 24, 2008, at 5:52 PM, Roy Harrington wrote:
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>  > Hi Joel,
>  >
>  > It's mainly for people designing their own curves/profiles. If you
>  > Open one of the
>  > .quad files under /Library/Printers/QTR/quadtone/... you'll see how
>  > the inks are
>  > being used. If you are simply a regular user of existing profiles
>  > it's not much
>  > more that just mildly interesting.
>  >
>  > Roy
>  >
>  > On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 2:55 PM, jconison77 <jcon77@...>
>  > wrote:
>  > > Hello,
>  > > I'm running Leopard.
>  > > A quick question. What is the application QTR Curve View used for?
>  > > Thanks
>  > > Joel Conison
>  > >
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