QTR-Quadtone RIP

Did a little research today. CxF (Color Exchange Format) is an open source
file format for the exchange of color information between CxF i/o compatible
apps. Although it uses tags internally like xml, it does not appear to be a
sub or superset of xml. Therefore, I wouldn't expect any Microsoft product
to be doing io in this format any time soon. The format was developed by
X-Rite (surprise, surprise). As far as I can tell, no other software
publishers have jumped on the CxF bandwagon, open source freebie or not.

www.colorexchangeformat.com is a web site containing all the open source
docs and white papers explaining the tech side of things.

I called X-Rite tech support to find out if their software bundle's Windows
version had been rev'd to output this data in another format, but no one
returned my call. I note that this is not a conversion issue; it's a matter
of outputting in a more standard format, txt would be preferable, but csv,
xls, xml would all work just fine imo. As a professional programmer, this
does not look like a big deal mod in their app. When a software publisher
limits itself to its own internally developed format it's an almost sure
sign that they are dreaming of dominating the software end of things in the
market place. I also note that my call to get this information I was
transferred to the 'Mac Group,' so I infer the original software was written
for MacOS and that Windows was an after thought. We'll be waiting a long
time for a Windows upgrade that gives output options on our desktops.

This is a deal breaker for me. I'll be going the Spyder 3 Print route in the
next few days.

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 3:44 AM, Mike Finley <mike.finley@...>wrote:

>
>
> Its a CxF file (an XML format) containing a lot of data not needed for
> this purpose.
>
> If you use a recent version of Excel, there's a page on Keith Cooper's
> site -
>
> http://www.northlight-images.co.uk/article_pages/bw_printing/bw_print_colormunki.html
> - that covers using the ColorMunki with QTR, and includes a link for an
> Excel file that is supposed to make it easier. I don't know whether it
> works, as I don't use Excel.
>
>
> On 04/04/2011 01:46, Lew Schwartz wrote:
> >
> > so what file type does it export?
> >
> > On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Paul Grant <studiopbg@...
> > <mailto:studiopbg%40gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > You are correct. I forgot to mention that in my last post. I have
> > both Mac
> > > and PC and use the Mac for reading the plots with the color munki.
> > >
> > > Paul
> > >
> > > _____
> > >
> > > From: QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com
> > <mailto:QuadtoneRIP%40yahoogroups.com>
> > [mailto:QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com
> > <mailto:QuadtoneRIP%40yahoogroups.com>] On
>
> > > Behalf Of Mike Finley
> > > Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2011 2:37 PM
> > > To: QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com <mailto:QuadtoneRIP%40yahoogroups.com>
>
> > > Subject: Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Photospectrometer for CURVES
> > >
> > >
> > > well, you can easily export if you are operating on a Mac. Its harder
> on
> > > a PC as the ColorMunki doesn't export a .csv file on the PC.
> > > It's a liitle tedious manually copying the measured values, but can be
> > > done.
> > >
> >
>
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