QTR-Quadtone RIP

Hi Joost,

Tiff files can be grayscale or RGB already.
Supporting jpeg may be a possibility but the driver seems a
bit more effort than I have time for.

Thanks,
Roy

On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 6:12 AM, Joost Horsten <j.h.j.h@...> wrote:
> 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
>
>