QTR-Quadtone RIP

I looked into this recently, when I first learned Lion wasn't going to support PPC-only binaries.  From what I can tell, MeasureTool (and possibly other parts of ProfileMaker) are being replaced by ColorPort, which is Intel-native.  (See: http://www.xrite.com/product_overview.aspx?ID=719)

However, ColorPort doesn't seem quite as general as MeasureTool, and it didn't easily recognize my target (generated by my own tools).  But it's also more configurable, so may just take some futzing.  It may be fine with the targets supplied with QTR.

The other idea is using Argyll's free command-line tools (see: http://www.argyllcms.com).  It does support the EyeOne (at least), although it has its own ideas of target layout, and is not an easily toolkit to learn.

So there will be other options, once Lion forces discontinuation of PPC-only tools.

--John


On 9 Jun 2011, at 2:00 PM, Roy Harrington wrote:

> Hi Phil,
> 
> I have not actually tried Lion yet but I have read most of the info available.
> 
> The main thing that I know of is that the new OS is Intel chip only
> i.e. no support
> for old PPC programs.  The bulk of QTR is already intel 32/64 bit but there are
> few of the the programs like QTR-Create-ICC that need to be updated.  I have
> fixes for these.  The place where this is particularly a problem is
> the MeasureTool
> program that is used for reading the Eye-One Spectro.  This will not
> be supported
> as an Intel program by X-rite as far as I know.  Keep a bootable Snow
> Leopard around.
> 
> Although there will undoubtably be things to update for Lion,  I don't imagine
> there will be any unsurmountable issues for QTR on Lion.
> If you know of particular issues let me know.
> 
> Thanks,
> Roy
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 8:05 AM, KentB <philip@accentonrugs.com> wrote:
>> Hi Roy
>> 
>> I am testing the OSX Lion Developer Release...and Quadtone rip is currently broken on Lion.  Are you working on this?
>> 
>> Epson has just released its update to its standard driver...NetConfig does not work...but standard Epson drivers work via Bonjour on Lion.
>> 
>> Thanks for a great product...must drive you nuts when Apple and Microsoft do this stuff....
>> 
>> Phil Brouwer
>> 
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