From: Roger Breton
You need to save the reference data in the same format as i1Profiler expects for that target type.
Which is FAR from obvious in my last frustrating attempts. I spent the last two days trying to "reverse-engineer" this part of i1Profiler.
Do you use a special text editor of some kind?
I tried with both the "LaserSoft" and "WolfFaust" target types to no avail. I1Profiler allows loading the scanned TIFFs just fine *but* it keeps complaining about the "format" of my custom measurements at the point of loading Reference Files.
Roger, I dug through backups and pulled the measurement data from that particular job. Looking at the measurements, they were made with MeasureTool. The spectral data were then read into Excel, converted to XYZ and CIELAB, and written out to a tab delimited file. Header and footer information were then copied from an already existing i1Profiler reference file. That jogged my memory. We also tried using a Kodak IT8 (custom measured rather than the batch averaged Q60 file). For reasons only known to X-Rite, i1Profiler refused to accept tab delimited reference data. The provided Q60 reference files were all space delimited and that's what i1Profiler needed. The provided HutchColor reference files were tab delimited, so I'm assuming you need to match the existing format. Looking at the LaserSoft reflective files, they are all space-delimited. Whether you need to include the appropriate number of spaces for each column, I can't say. That's easy enough to do in Excel. WolfFaust reference files are also space-delimited. In addition to XYZ and CIELAB, you will also need to calculate CIELCH. Setting all the standard deviation and mean DE fields to 0.00 should be fine. Best of luck! -Ethan