Re: speaking of printers...

[Clay <wcharmon@wt.net>]

Since we are talking QTR arcana, I have to confess that one of the  
more unusual aspects of QTR is that the Windows version of QTRgui is  
much more user-friendly and intuitive for curve design than the mac  
version, which involves using a text editor to manually edit a  
parameter file when creating a profile.  It's better than punch cards,  
but not by much.

Being a long-time Mac advocate, I have to hang my head in shame at  
this outrage against all that is fine, good and just in our world.

But all is not lost. If you have one of the newer Intel-based macs,  
you can get a copy of either VMware Fusion or Parallels, and run  
windows inside your Mac OSX workspace. That is what I do when I make  
profiles. I create the profiles using QTRgui in my cute little Windows  
session, and then drag the profiles across to my Mac desktop and  
install them in my Mac version of the QTR driver. The profile format  
is interchangeable between the two platforms. This is sort of digital  
version of cross-over voting.

clay
On Nov 4, 2009, at 1:09 AM, Kerik wrote:

> Marek,
>
> This is only true on the PC. The standalone QTRgui does not exist  
> for the
> Mac. On the Mac, QTR shows up like any other printer within  
> Photoshop. You
> can print TIFFs, PSDs or whatever.