2.0.3 - Comments in quad file cause corruption

Walker,
Doing my first calibration with PPEV2. It appears PPE doesn’t deal with valid comment lines in the “Starting Curve” quad file. Here are two screen shots showing corruption which appears in the Curve Remapping section:

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In the first case, there are two comment lines, each starting with “#” as allowed in valid quad files. In the second case, there is a single comment line, again starting with “#”. (I have to laugh because in this case, it is the comment line “# qm_Remapped:[GR>OR]” which I use to keep track of quad files that I have remapped with my own tools, and here it is showing up in your “New Curve Channel Remapping” tool :slight_smile:)

Anyway, Roy says that any line in a quad file that starts with “#” (except of course the first header line) is a comment and can appear anywhere in the file.

Regards,
Dave

for now delete the comments and make sure there is # K curve as the second line.

I will fix in 2.0.6

-W

Hey @dtrout

This is a test version of 2.0.6.

Please let me know if it works. (right now it strips comments on the final .quad but it doesn’t mess up if comments exist in either the starting or blending curves). retention of comments + possible custom comments will come in 2.0.7

best,
Walker

Hi Walker,

Still some problems on this test version. After bringing in the Measurements and then the Starting Curve (with comment line), I don’t see my individual curves in the graph. Also when I look at the NEW CURVE data I see this:

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Regards,
Dave

please upload your .quad so I can take a look. You can drag and drop it right into the reply box (as a .quad file) on this forum.

OK, here it is:

x900-Canson-RagPhoto-Cool.quad (9.9 KB)

Thanks.

Also, remember I am running Excel 2016 on Windows 10.

Dave

Works for me.

Here’s a video. Also tested in 2011.

Please test it on Windows with Excel2016.

Thanks,
Dave

I am snowed in so not at my windows machine today.

The way to ensure that you are copy/pasting just text content is to open the original curve in a text editor and the select-all / copy. Then hit the A1 cell and paste. I assume you have done this but I wanted to re-iterate for those who are reading along.

Also putting odd chars in the comment line “:” and “[]” is not recommended no-matter the application used. Traditionally periods, underscores, dashes, and copyright tags have worked.

best,
Walker

Also, did you download the 2.0.6 and open in excel 2016 windows and it did not work without changing a thing? If it did not work without changing a thing than there is something wrong, but if you opened it up and it worked than it’s detecting the comment correctly.

I found a windows machine. Debugging now

-W

Fixed it. It was a problem with the Blend curve not erroring out gracefully.

Muchas gracias for the bug report. Sorry for my surliness! Here’s the re-worked one. Will publish in the next release.

best,
Walker

Thanks! All good now.

Two quick un-related questions while I have your attention :slight_smile:

Regarding this Falses screenshot:
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For this sequence of measurements, it seems that the LAST value (i.e. 13.98) should be the one marked as a False, i.e. it is the first one that is NOT in the proper sequence. But maybe I’m not understanding the logic behind how the Falses are marked. In this case which one of the numbers would you modify? (What I actually did: I modified the last one to 13.91).

Second question:
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What does the small blue box indicate on the graph? I don’t see it documented anywhere, but I sometimes I see the boxes drop to the bottom of the graph and then back to the target linear line as I make smoothing adjustments.

Thanks,
Dave

sometimes the error isn’t the one below. In this case it is if you look at it as a human being who knows ink. For example if there were a lot more numbers below the 13.98 that weren’t falsed the 13.92 would most likely be the odd man out in relation to everything above and below. But it lakes a human eye to determine that.

As talked about in the demos, the falses logic gives you a general idea that there will be some false near or on the row the false is showing. It’s a little more complicated than that and might be worth it to do a bit more stringent logic as well but this gets oddly complicated and almost needs AI.

In this case the 13.92 is the MIN number so this is the best dMax and most likely the last patch is over-inking. The method for correction is as follows.

Correct the last patch to something below 13.92 (say 13.91), then set the shadow start point to 1. This cuts off the last over-inked bit.

best,
Walker

This is the contrast tweak inputs/outputs. You can thing of them exactly as the points on a photoshop curve. In fact, if you make a 5 point curve in photoshop and copy/paste the input/outputs into the tweak controls you will see the exact same curve appear.

These tweaks can be capy/saved and copy/pasted as a whole row of input values or output values.

Aha, now I understand the value of the Start Points tool! Yes, I was also thinking the last patch might be slightly over-inked.

Another Aha…I hadn’t realized there’s a green line in the graph tied to the contrast tweaking tool…just hadn’t experimented with it yet. Thanks.

Looking forward to 2.0.7 that will carry forward quad file comments. Thanks for all the help!

Regards,
Dave

Retain comments coming in v2.0.7

Just noticed that 2.0.7 is out there on the mac but not for Windows yet. Web site says “arriving on Nov. 14” (yesterday) for Windows. Is there an issue still on the Windows platform?

thanks

I’m hustling and behind sched man.