[Tool] ChromIQ – a macOS and Windows GUI for ArgyllCMS printer profiling (v3.9.0)

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Take your time. I have burned through all of the token on my 3 accounts anyway. So I can’t do more work on this until later this evening. But a friend of mine is coming over to visit. Good to spend some time with other stuff than this 😅

The following screenshot is not up to date anymore because some adjustments were made but it should look somewhat similar:

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Although it would be nice to know if Multi Page targets work as well - they should…

If this works @pharmacist can start a business with selling scanner profiling targets 😅
 
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There is a bug in opening ti3 files: the directory is shown empty despite full of directories and files. It takes a very long time before the files are shown.

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It should be full in explorer:

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The reason I cannot find any files in the above posts and asking for you where the files are located.....Maybe only a Windows problem ?
 
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The file opening dialog only shows folders and ti3 files. If your second screenshot show the same folder as the first then there is neither a folder nor a ti3 file in it
 

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The file opening dialog only shows folders and ti3 files. If your second screenshot show the same folder as the first then there is neither a folder nor a ti3 file in it
Hi Sebastian,

It is the same when choosing all files (*.*), sometimes I have to stretch and press the windows a bit to get the files loaded in the window, very strange. And sometimes I get nothing to see (even with the option *.*).
 

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I am trying to create a scanner profile but the system halts:

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Strange message: make sure the file isn't open in another app (I don't think so) and it looks at the a strange directory for the ti3 file (in \downloads) instead of c:\users\.....

What I am doing wrong ???
 

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OK here is my finding (beta 93):

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Now when pressing the generate button:

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This is the text:


Reading page 1 from the scan…

Input file 'D:\Downloads\img20260704_11231530.tif': w=2484, h=3515, d = 3, bpp = 8

Data input file 'C:\Users\Nelson\ChromIQ\ChromIQ_744_patch_test_target\runs\run1\ChromIQ_744_patch_test_target.cie'

Data output file 'ChromIQ_744_patch_test_target-p1s1-scanner.ti3'

Chart reference file 'C:\Users\Nelson\ChromIQ\ChromIQ_744_patch_test_target\runs\run1\ChromIQ_744_patch_test_target-sample.cht'

About to allocate scanrd_ object

Verbosity = 2, flags = 0x60000

About to read input tiff file and discover groups

adivval = 1.000000

About to calculate edge lines

2011 useful edges out of 4199

About to calculate perspective correction

Perspective correction factors = -0.000001 0.000000 1242.000000 1757.500000

About to calculate rotation

Mean angle = 0.073882

Standard deviation = 0.947177

Robust mean angle = 0.087490 from 1891 lines

About to calculate feature information

About to read reference feature information

Read of chart reference file succeeded

Using manual matching

About to setup value scanrdg boxes

About to read raster values

About to write diag file

Writing output values to file 'ChromIQ_744_patch_test_target-p1s1-scanner.ti3'

Note: 51 unreadable values from patches that didn't read cleanly were set to zero so the profile can still build. If the profile looks off, re-check the grid covers every patch inside the image.

Building the scanner profile…

[ERROR] Building the profile failed — see messages above.
 
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I am now trying a version without spacers:

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