Re: X-Rite Colorport (was edit profiles)
Re: X-Rite Colorport (was edit profiles)
- Subject: Re: X-Rite Colorport (was edit profiles)
- From: Marc Levine <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 08:48:08 -0400
I am posting this response again as it may help a few others on this topic.
(it looks like it didn't make it the first time).
Hi Roger,
Colorport - as you know - is a new application. Primarily, the app is geared
to do 3 things:
1) Allow users on "non-X-Rite" software to take advantage of our measurement
technologies, including DTP70 and Pulse
2) Allow users of "non-X-Rite" hardware (such as Iccolor) to work with
MonacoPROFILER.
3) To supplement the target generation capabilities of Qccolor and provide a
mechanism to easily format colorbars (Fogra, SWOP, Gracol, etc...) for use
with measurement devices such as the Pulse.
To this extent, I am sure you will find the app delivers. There's a couple
niceties in it with respect to page and device-parameter control and you
should find it easy to customize targets by either adding, removing, or
editing device target recipes.
It also includes all of the functionality of MonacoPROFILER using X-Rite
targets, allowing users to ink-limit and linearize target data, prior to
building your target TIFFs. It should be noted that any "default" selection
will emulate the defaults of MonacoPROFILER (which is why some options may
be disabled when this flag is set).
The intention of the software is not to emulate other people's software -
such GMB MeasureTool. That being said, there are some things you can do to
tailor the behavior of the application. I did some tests today and found
that by changing some parameters in the device configuration file, that I
could achieve similar behavior - provided that you feed Colorport the same
patches.
In the application bundle, there is a file called "110.ICColor.xml" (in
contents/resources/comfigurations/PatchTemplate) which can be modified for
the purposes of emulating different behaviors. You can open this file with
"TextEdit" and adjust a few parameters to get Colorport to more closely
follow GMB's MeasureTool behavior for the ICColor.
In this file, change
MaximumPageWidth to 135
LeftMargin to 4
TopMargin to 4
Bottom Margin to 4
AllowMultipleDevPagesPerPrintedPage to "False"
You will then need to restart the app. The 2 things that you will need to
keep in mind after doing this is that Colorport will only show you 1 "target
page" per page. While this is not ideal, it will give you the column/row
count that MT would give you and will subsequently measure the same targets.
And...you will need to load a target reference with the same number of
patches that you used in MeasureTool. In other words, the ICColor target has
a few blanks in it because the last row is typically partial. You need to
load up the file with the blanks in it if you expect things to be the same.
The colorport layout logic was developed to economize the page space
occupied by the ICC target. In Colorport, if the software detects that the
number of bank patches in the last column is greater than the number of
columns on that page, it will redistribute the patches on the last page by
shortening the column length by one patch - reducing the overall size of the
target. In this case, the target will actually contain fewer blanks, and
will look slightly different than MeasureTool. If you import a target
definition from GMB that includes the correct number of blanks, you will get
essentially identical performance.
Whew!
This should get you where you need to go. I should also note that - if it
was your intention to make a target that that can be measured in Fuji, GMB,
and X-Rite, that is one thing. If you were just looking for a quick way to
get data from an ICColor target that you already built into MonacoPROFILER,
you could have just exported the data out of MeasureTool (as an ECI dataset)
and just imported it directly into the app.
Hope this helps,
Marc
--
Marc Levine
Sales Guy
Technical Guy
X-Rite Incorporated
Email email@hidden
www.xrite.com
> From: <email@hidden>
> Reply-To: <email@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 12:03:13 -0700 (PDT)
> To: <email@hidden>
> Subject: Colorsync-users Digest, Vol 2, Issue 282
>
>>> The rest of the settings go like this:
>>>
>>> Measurement Device = GretagMacbeth Iccolor
>>> Color Space = CMYK
>>> Patch Set = ECI Random
>>> Paper Size = no margins
>>>
>>> Paper Size is the field that's giving me difficulty.
>>>
>>> 12 x 18 is too small, so is 12x20. 12 x 22 is barely enough and 12x23 is too
>>> long, resulting in assymetric targets (one longer than the other).
>>
>> Roger,
>> After you select ECI Random, then uncheck the Default Layout and then
>> press the Customise button. There you are able to import patches from
>> elsewhere.
>> In regard to paper size select your preferred output size and then click on
>> the
>> Margins arrow for further individual controls.
>> Hope that works.
>> Cheers
>> Richard
>
> Alas, the default layout is unchecked. I managed to import a GMB Reference
> file with success but the way the patches are laid is still not completely
> under my control, there is still that page size parameter that's causing the
> problem. So ColorPort is reading the patch content file but there is nothing
> in that imported file that gives any information as to the required layout.
>
> I zeroed all the margins settings to no avail already.
>
> I give up :(
>
> Roger Breton | Laval, Canada | email@hidden
> http://pages.infinit.net/graxx
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