BRAVO Graeme!!!!
I appreciate the technical complexity you had to overcome in the course of
developing native drivers for these instruments.
BIG KUDO.
/ Roger Breton
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From: argyllcms-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <argyllcms-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On
Behalf Of Graeme Gill
Sent: Monday, May 3, 2021 9:50 PM
To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [argyllcms] ArgyllCMS V.2.20 has been released
I'm pleased to announce the release of ArgyllCMS V2.2.0.
This includes a number of minor bug fixes, as well as (hopefully) some fixes
for the latest OS X update breakage. (I'm unable to verify operation on the
latest OS X versions myself.)
The major feature addition is native support for the X-Rite i1Pro3 and
i1Pro3 Plus spectrometer instruments. These instruments were introduces
early in 2020 and while having many similarities to their predecessors, use
an updated and incompatible communication protocol, necessitating a complete
driver re-write. Given the expense of obtaining an instrument and the
difficulty inherent in deciphering the operation of a relatively complex
device to the point of being able to write a useful driver, I was not
confident that ArgyllCMS was going to have support for them any time soon.
Fortunately the active interest of a commercial licensee made it possible to
devote the 7 months of intense development necessary to result in a
comprehensive driver. It was never likely that I would have an i1Pro3Plus to
work with, and hence support for this instrument was highly uncertain, but
it turns out that the i1Pro3 and i1Pro3Plus are virtually identical, so a
little help from someone with the Plus instrument was all that was needed to
enable support for it as well.
Note that for use on MSWindows it will be necessary to update the system
driver to enable recognition of the i1Pro3 VID/PID, and also on Linux/X11 it
will be necessary to update the the udev permissions list for the same
reason. See the OS specific install instructions for help on how to do this.
Enjoy!
Graeme Gill.
