Re: How well is Colorton II supported by Profiler Pro?
Re: How well is Colorton II supported by Profiler Pro?
- Subject: Re: How well is Colorton II supported by Profiler Pro?
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 15:48:57 EDT
In a message dated 8/29/01 12:51:16 PM, email@hidden writes:
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I inquired at ColorVision and George Rodart answered the following. Now,
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is that hassle worth the saving, or will I soon regret my choice and
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save up for one of the $600 devices?
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Profiler Pro does not directly support the measuring devices, instead
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it requires that you use the software that came with the device and save
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the measurement file as text.
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You should be able to use the Colortron if you can get a data file that
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is in Lab format.
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a) one measurement per line
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b) each line is conmposed of the three L a b values
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It would look like this:
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This is the most basic format, pure Lab values 1 per line for each
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measurement
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26.61 -1.1 2.79
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33.75 -3.66 4.21
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41.41 -3.14 -3.43
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44.17 1.91 -21.67
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43.66 15.41 -47.29
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36.24 -1.08 12.45
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etc.
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The Colortron will build such files through ColorShop, and in that sense is
as supported by ProfilerPRO as any other spectro (even though its not on the
official list). Its slow, and its accuracy is a bit questionable, but it
should build usable profiles. I would guess that it would take four or five
hours to read 729 patches with a Colortron, but it would read the 125 patch
targets in porportionally less time. Remeasure the white point regularly,
like every few minutes!
C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
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