[argyllcms] The Eye One! It works!
- From: Ben Goren <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 21:33:18 -0700
Graeme,
First of all, please again accept my heartfelt thanks. Argyll
itself is at least as good as it's ever been. But now -- the Eye
One! It works perfectly! I can't tell you how wonderful it is to
actually use Argyll as you intended it, instead of having to use
that kludge with x-rite's ColorPort. And I can profile my display
with Argyll as well!
I'm afraid I can't offer any help with the important stuff, but
here're a few very small burrs that you might want to polish out
if you get a chance.
First, a typo. There's an extra apostrophe in the message to
calibrate the device: ``Place the instrument on it's reflective
white reference...'' should be ``Place the instrument on its
reflective white reference....''
(I did mention that these were very minor, no?)
Next, I think it would be reasonable to make the -H
high-resolution mode the default. I'd think that the overwhelming
majority of people would rather use it than not. If so, why not
make the common choice the default, rather than requiring a
switch?
In a similar vein...why not make the inclusion of spectral data
with dispread be the default? Even if not as many people will
specify a different white point for a monitor profile, surely it
doesn't do any harm to include the data in the file?
With printread, I like the beep confirming that it's ready to
scan. But I'd *really* like audible feedback for the success or
failure of scanning. Perhaps one beep on success, and three on
failure? That way, I wouldn't have to look up to make sure that
the strip was read okay.
Last -- at least, for now -- the following message gets printed at
the end of using printread:
Updating the calibration and log parameters to EEProm failed
I'm not worried about it, but I suspect that this is something
you'd want to fix / suppress / etc.
Thanks again, and let me know if there's anything I can do to help
you make Argyll even better.
Cheers,
b&
P.S. I created a 16K patch target for my monitor and let it run
overnight -- something unimaginable to me before. The improvement
in contrast, shadow detail, etc., is rather amazing. Now I'm just
worried that I'm going to have to spend a couple hours scanning a
similarly-sized print target for my favorite paper.... b&
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