QTR-Quadtone RIP

Roy, Stephen,

Thanks. In the last hour I've discovered something. I tried the 
interpolation in PS and had the same result - the thumbnail would 
not show and I had the two error messages.

Then, more out of frustration than anything else, I dragged and 
dropped the file out of Windows Explorer onto the printing pane in 
the QTR GUI. Voila! Beautiful thumbnail and no error messages (and 
this, incidentally with the PS file which at 662 MB was twice the 
size of Qimage's interpolation of the same image).

So....I went back to Qimage and set up the smart sharpening and 
interpolation as desired, printed to file, dropped that file out of 
Explorer into QTR and now the image is printing as I type.

Roy, I also shoot 4x5 on occasion and my scanned negs start at 335 
MB (and go up from there :~) so I was fairly sure this shouldn't 
have been a file size issue. 

It does seem that there may be a bug in the code in the execution of 
the File/Select Image routine.

Thanks again to both of you. I'll report back if the image comes out 
a muddied mess.....

Dave 

--- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, "Roy Harrington" <roy@h...> 
wrote:
> 
> Dave,
> 
> One thing that wasn't clear before is that your image seems to be 
in landscape
> orientation i.e. 18in wide is really 18in length as printed.  So 
the whole image
> must be rotated before printing.  I'm not sure whether Qimage 
tries to take
> care of this but if not both the QTRgui front end and the QTR 
print code have
> to do this rotation.   Although its not obvious the front end and 
print code are
> completely separate and an error message from QTRgui really 
doesn't tell
> whether the backend will work (this is why Stephen suggested to 
print even if
> you can't see the preview). Anyway you might try rotating the 
image in Photoshop
> before sending to Qimage.  This would at least see if that is part 
of the problem.
>