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Cannot find my Curves

Cannot find my Curves

2016-03-28 by jp432r@...

My old computer died. (Windows 10). I had everything working fine on it and was working on solving a mechanical problem in my Epson Stylus Photo R3000 when my computer got sick.

I have reinstalled QTR and was able to find all the existing .qdif and .acv files on my old computer and put them in the same folder (which was C:\Program Files (x86)\QuadToneRIP\bin) on my new computer (also Win10)


QTR is requiring me to use at least one curve.
However, when I pull-down the "Curve 1" list in the Curves Setup window, QTR cannot seem to find my existing Curves (even when I put them in the same folder (C:\Program Files (x86)\QuadToneRIP\Profiles\R3000-uc) that the curve that appear on the list are located) and I can't figure out how to "browse" to them. I must have solved the problem once, but it was a long time ago and it seems I have forgotten whatever it was I did

I can, of course, move the curve (.qdif) files to another folder if that is needed.

Help will be appreciated.

Thanks, Jeff



Re: Cannot find my Curves

2016-03-28 by richard@...

I'm not a Windows user, but this is how I understand how to fix this. You need to open the curve creation module in the QTRgui, open the qidf file, then click show curve. It will spin and hang up, and you will need to close the program and when you look in the curve drop down you should see the one you just reinstalled. I think you will have to do this will each of the profiles. 

If you had all the .quad files you could put them in the correct folder and reopen the gui and they should all be in the curves drop down

Hope that helps,
Richard Boutwell

Re: Cannot find my Curves

2016-03-29 by jp432r@...

Your suggestion worked perfectly, but I gotta say that I am stunned that I had to crash the program to fix a problem.

Thanks, Jeff

Re: Cannot find my Curves

2016-03-29 by richard@...

Jeff, I am glad to hear you are back up and running now, but I agree, it is a pain.

You will find a couple similar threads here about the Windows 10 issues. Basically, the QTRgui was designed and written by someone else and is just a wrapper for Roy's curve creation and printing programs. While the underlying curve creation and printing code has been updated for new printers the QTRgui hasn't. The gui is now starting to show its age and cause problems as newer Windows operating systems come out with more security features.

It would be nice if there was a way to do the Mac style bulk install from the .qidf text file rather than needing to open each profile in the curve creation module and then remake the curves, crash the program, restart the program and do it all over again for each separate profile.

Richard Boutwell
http://www.richardboutwell.com/

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