lprof - A profile construction set library

Update The lprof project was picked up is now maintained on Sourceforge (since mid-August.) Here is the link. I will leave up the rest of this page until I test the new release, but I suspect I will take it down soon, perhaps just leaving a screenshot, description and link : )
http://sourceforge.net/projects/lprof

The latest version is 1.11.0, but requires scons and Python 2.53 -- since I develop most everything on Python-2.4.2, I stopped short of updating for it -- especially since I do not have calibration hardware or a printer profile. (So it wouldn't really do me any good.) The 1.10.1 version compiles well on Python-2.4.2, with LCMS already installed. It looks the same as the original screenshot below from the patched 1.09 version. See the abovementioned site for info on the latest enhancements ansd screenshots.

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Older info:

This software is by Marti Maria, but is no longer maintained. I post it here in source and Slackware Package form for your convenience. Be it known, however, that measuring devices (for monitors) and target patterns (for scanners) are needed to make a good-quality icc profile. -- And printers on Linux, well, I won't get into that: except to say that if you intend to use a profile to print at home, obviously don't bother if you do not have an icc for your printer.

If, however, you have access to a measuring device and you send your work out to be printed at a commercial shop (and you use an application such as Scribus), then Marti's software could be of tremendous value to you.

See this page:

http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&page=moncal

and this page:

http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&page=cms

For details on how to use and create icc profiles for use with Scribus. It is excellent and detailed so I will not attempt to recreate those pages here.


First I will show you a screenshot of the Monitor icc building application (qtmonitorprofiler):









Requirements:

QT toolkit (I read any... but I compiled on qt-3.3.4(threaded) and had no trouble after symlinking libqt-mt.so-3.3.4 to libqt.so

Little CMS (lcms)
Which you can find here:

http://www.littlecms.com/downloads.htm


And here are my local versions of the lprof package, which contains the following programs:

qtprofilechecker
qtmonitorprofiler
qtmeasurementtool
qtscannerprofiler
icc2it8


Download

Slackware Package (819k):
MD5SUM   89a445da6c8db498191182b87de42fc7
lprof-1.09-i486-1ABS.tgz

"Source" Package (2013k):
MD5SUM   778360c10b941a2996ade959e89c946
lprof-1.09_patched_src.tar.bz2