QTR-Quadtone RIP

Roy,

I have brought this up before: the one thing that is annoying me on 
QTR is that I can't print directly from an application (such as 
Lightroom or InDesign). I'm on Windows. Lately I have worked hard to 
streamline my workflow and this is the key issue remaining.

The most logical way would be to use QTR as print driver, but from 
your earlier comments I understand that this is too complicated to 
implement. 

"print to file" is not an option. InDesign only supports jpeg files, 
Lightroom 1 has not "print to file" option whatsoever. Lightroom 2 
beta has it, but again jpeg only.
  
As a workaround you suggested earlier to print to pdf, convert to 
tif, convert to Lab gray (via acrobat and Photoshop) and use the qtr 
file file monitor feature. Indeed this works, but it is a very 
incovenient workflow.

So I was thinking: would it a compromise be not to support Lab gray 
tif files only, but as well 1) jpeg, 2) RGB files (containing 
grayscale images only and 3) other profiles. It would mean that QTR 
has to do some format and profile conversion. I would expect this 
would not be very complicated (but I may be mistaken). Apart for use 
as print feature, this would greatly increase the flexibility of QTR 
in general as well?

Does this question make sense to you?

Kind regards,

Joost