[argyllcms] Scanin - using more general profiles...
- From: "Alastair M. Robinson" <profiling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:42:39 +0000
Hi,
Could I make a trivial feature request for scanin - namely downgrading
the message "ICC profile '%s' is expected to be an input profile" from
an error to a warning?
Today I found myself wanting to use scanin to read an artificially
rendered chart, for which sRGB was more appropriate than a scanner or
camera profile. There are several ways I could have solved this, but
making that change to scanin.c worked nicely and was probably the
quickest option :)
In case anyone's interested in why I should want to do such a thing, I'm
trying to pin down the source of some non-monoticities I'm seeing with
Gutenprint in raw mode, and trying to determine whether the cause is
mechanical or something to do with the dither algorithms. I'm
"printing" a scannable n-colour testchart, running it through
Gutenprint's "unprint" utility, downsampling the resulting *huge* PNM
file to a more moderately-sized TIFF, then feeding that to scanin.
Seems a long way round, but it gives me a .ti3 which I can then analyze
in the same way as genuine printed-then-spectro-read charts.
Hopefully in the next few days I'll be able to make available the stuff
I've been working on with Gutenprint and printer-tuning - including a
utility for printing DeviceN tiffs, as produced by printtarg, in raw mode.
All the best,
--
Alastair M. Robinson
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