QTR-Quadtone RIP

I'm a new user, just getting started. I plan to use QTR with piezoDN for creating digital negatives.

When I installed QTR on my Windows 7 PC, I checked both "Printing Software" and "Curve Creation Tools." When I launched QTRGui after installation, I got the following error:

"insufficient folder privileges for profile creation"

and I noticed that Tools -> Curve Creation was grayed out.

When I re-ran QTRGui as administrator. I no longer got the error message. Furthermore, Tools -> Curve Creation was no longer grayed out.

The User Guide says

The manual has a typo in it.

The curves are in C:\ProgramFiles\QuadToneRIP\QuadTone\Your-Curve-Folder (in your case QuadYourPrinterMode-PiezoDN)

For reference, here is the guide: https://piezography.com/install-delete-quadtonerip-curves/

Best,
-Walker



> On Feb 11, 2018, at 6:45 PM, john.isner@gmail.com [QuadtoneRIP] <QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> When I installed QTR on my Windows 7 PC, I checked both "Printing Software" and "Curve Creation Tools."  When I launched QTRGui after installation, I got the following error:
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> When I re-ran QTRGui as administrator.  I no longer got the error message.  Furthermore, Tools -> Curve Creation was no longer grayed out.
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> "The curve files are stored in the Profiles sub-folder in the folder where QuadToneRIP Was installed. If you didn’t change that during installation, they will be in: C:\ProgramFiles\QuadToneRIP\Profiles."
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> Does QTR assume that all users on the same machine share the same set of curves?  If so, then when creating curves, the program must be run as administrator.  But the User Guide does not mention this.  Otherwise, the program should have a default location for each user, for example
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The only thing you really need is the QTR-Linearize-Quad droplet which lives in your QuadtoneRIP application folder (inside of a subfolder I think). This is the droplet you drag and drop smoothed measurements and .quad curves to. I always suggest copying both the .quad and measurement file to the desktop before linearizing.

It sounds frustrating but the admin restriction (most likely a system security setting that is turned on) is actually good as these curves live in Program Files and not in a user-directory.

Best,
Walker



> On Feb 11, 2018, at 7:48 PM, john.isner@... [QuadtoneRIP] <QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> The problem is that I get an error if I run QTRGui as a normal user (not admin)
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>               "insufficient folder privileges for profile creation"
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> Then I do not have Curve Creation in the Tools menu.
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> But if I run QTRGui as administrator, all is good.
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> I was surprised that the manual doesn't mention this.
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Has anyone used Ilford Gold Mono Silk?  If so opinions and what is the closest QTR profile that supports it?

Thanks,
Truman

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