YAAW - Yet Another Argyll Wrapper

[riclin]

At the expense of jumping on the bandwagon, Claude and I have written yet another wrapper to simplify the process of preparing printer profiles with Argyll CMS. There are several of these around but none really suited my requirements. Anyway - take a look and see whether this may be of use. It's written in Python so should be fairly portable and is available for your viewing pleasure at:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kGeeNQ0dPzOaBl6ALWpYmKdM-XUIdDNZ/view?usp=drive_link

Feel free to hack/modify/bin as you see fit.

 

[riclin]

V3.0 - simple gamut overview added - focus on keeping wrapper light and not dependent on python libraries that may not be available or installed.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1K3n3nWFblIUtzvxIzCufPeMWgrJpzVDt/view?usp=sharing

 

[riclin]

V3.1 - bugfix of gamut viewer reporting incorrect volumes:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HKbAnrctKtsBT9iAQJTAai0ZqUDHYf8o/view?usp=sharing

 

[itsab1989]

It is kind of funny to see that multiple people tackled the same project at a similar time. What was your main focus when developing the app? What did you need that others do not offer?

Here is my approach. Last night I added a 3D gamut viewer to the list of features. Even with AI it is a lot of work. But I hope I can implement everything that is necessary

https://github.com/itsab1989/ChromIQ

 

[riclin]

Yes - it is a little weird isn't it? I suspect that several of us had persevered with Argyll longhand, then via various shell scripts etc, before realizing that AI and python could help to transform our scripts into a proper UI - and from there, all bets were off. At least that was my journey. The other Argyll based implementations that I'd explored either seemed overkill for my needs - or were a bit basic and didn't easily include the settings and switches that I needed - or didn't include a provision to save and revisit a profiling session at a later time. So YAAW was born. It was written to be light and portable, and deliberately provides only simple- although hopefully informative, graphics. With YAAW and a colormunki it takes only a little longer to prepare a new profile than it does using a scanner based profiling tool, and the resulting profiles generate prints that seem to align better with the screen image than the alternative. YMMV.