On Thursday 25 August 2005 3:47 am, T E Schmitz wrote: > Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > >>Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > >>>Is anybody working on support for hardware colorimeters like the > >>>ColorVision Spyder? I looked around for the documentation required > >>>to write a driver for it, but haven't found anything. > > > > If I could find a protocol spec, I could write a Linux driver > > that would address all these issues. > > Does it have to be the "Spyder"?
At the moment, I'm curious about the Spyder because I own one. I will spend time writing an open-source driver for it if I can, but I'm not interested enough to purchase more hardware. > There might be alternative devices for which the spec is available. Read > http://www.dl-c.com/discus/messages/2384/5216.html?1124673715. > Digital Light & Color (www.dl-c.com) provide monitor calibration for > Windows based on a colorimeter by Sequel Imaging. If you search the > above forum for "Spyder" you will find a few threads comparing those > devices. They chose Sequel because the protocol spec was available. > Apparently it's better quality too. http://www.dl-c.com/discus/messages/2384/2485.html does suggest that the Sequel device interface might be public. But then again, the fact that Jonathan Sachs could get the spec to develop a binary-only package doesn't necessarily mean that it would be available for an open-source implementation. Apparently Sequel was acquired by GretagMacbeth. I poked around http://www.gretagmacbeth.com but didn't see anything like an interface spec (but then I don't know what the new name of the colorimeter would be). ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Lcms-user mailing list Lcms-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lcms-user
