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