[argyllcms] Re: printtarg feature request: scale gauge
- From: Pascal de Bruijn <pmjdebruijn@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 08:42:03 +0100
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 7:31 AM, Graeme Gill <graeme@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> edmund ronald wrote:
>>
>> As a consultant, I can confirm that rescaled charts are one of the
>> typical user errors one gets when having a client print a target.
>
> Sure, I've certainly come across it myself.
>
> I'll add the idea of a scale gauge to the wish list, but I'd prefer not to
> to meddle with the code to that degree when I'm trying to finalize a
> release.
Fair enough.
> The workaround is to create a .TIFF with a slightly smaller size
> than the page, and then add a gauge manually with your favorite
> pixel editor.
Already did :)
>> Typically what you want to do is generate a standard target and then
>> overlay an annotation template and alignment marks in Photoshop,
>> redimension the whole thing to something like 360 dpi so that a
>> printer driver like CUPS doesn't apply some weird sharpening or
>> antialiasing routines to it, and resave the whole thing as a
>> compressed TIFF which you use forever.
>
> Some profilers work that way. One of the features of Argyll is
> tailoring the chart to suite the situation, particularly in regard
> to preconditioning with a previous profile.
>
>> It might make sense to provide some standard letter and A4 sized
>> templates of inkjet charts as above for the most used instrument(s).
>
> You can generate a fixed chart if you want, but I'm not convinced many
> would use a set of charts that I create. You can always use something
> standard like the ECI2002R (see ref/ECI2002R.ti2).
I never noticed those files, thanks for providing those.
Regards,
Pascal de Bruijn
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