<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>spyd4en</title> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <meta name="author" content="Graeme Gill"> </head> <body> <h2><b>spectro/spyd4en</b></h2> <h3>Summary</h3> A special purpose tool that enables the full range of Spyder 4 colorimeter calibration selections.<br> <h3>Usage summary<br> </h3> <small><span style="font-family: monospace;">spyd4en [-v] [<span style="font-style: italic;">inputfile</span></span>]<br style="font-family: monospace;"> <span style="font-family: monospace;"> -v level Verbose<br> -S d Specify the install scope u = user (def.), l = local system]<br> creates spyd4cal.bin from vendor install files.<br style="font-family: monospace;"> </span><span style="font-family: monospace;"></span><span style="font-family: monospace;"></span></small><br> <h3></h3> <h3>Flags and Parameters</h3> The <span style="font-style: italic;">inputfile</span> argument is optional, and and can be used to specify the MSWindows setup.exe file from the installation CD (or possibly downloaded from the manufacturers website), if spyd4en is unable to locate this file automatically on the CD.<br> <br> The <b>-v</b> parameter enables verbosity. This may be of use in figuring out what went wrong if it doesn't work, and where the file ends up.<br> <br> The <span style="font-weight: bold;">-S</span> option allows installing the calibration information file in a local system location, rather than the default user accessible location. You may need to run this as superuser using the "sudo" command on Linux systems.<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span></span><br> <h3>Usage Details and Discussion</h3> <span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>The Spyder 4 instrument does not have the full range of vendor instrument calibration options without the presence of the instrument vendors calibration information for the device. This calibration information is not provided with Argyll, since it has not been made available under a compatible license.<br> <br> The purchaser of a Spyder 4 instrument should have received a copy of this calibration information along with their instrument from the original vendor, and <span style="font-weight: bold;">spyd4en</span> enables the full range of calibration choice for their instrument, by locating the necessary information in the users copy of the instrument install files.<br> <br> <span style="font-weight: bold;">spyd4en</span> will attempt to locate the Spyder 4 installation CDROM, and make use of the calibration information from there. The CDROM should be placed in a CD drive prior to running spyd4en. If your Linux system is not running automount, or your automount is setup to mount CDROM's somewhere other than <span style="font-style: italic;">/media</span>,<span style="font-style: italic;"> /mnt/cdrom</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">/media/cdrom</span> or <span style="font-style: italic;">/cdrom</span>, then you will have to mount the CDROM manually, and give spyd4en the path to the CDROM setup/setup.exe file as the argument <span style="font-style: italic;">inputfile</span>.<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br> <br> NOTE </span>that under OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) you may need to run spyd4en as root to be able to mount the CDROM's ISO partition. The simplest way of doing this is to use the "sudo" commands. e.g. "sudo spyd4en", which will then ask you to enter the root password.<br> <br> If the instrument calibration information is successfully located, then spyd4en will create a <span style="font-weight: bold;">spyd4cal.bin</span> file in a subdirectory of the users home directory, or if the <span style="font-weight: bold;">-S l</span> option is used, will store it in a system wide location. (the <a href="http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html">XDG Base Directory specifications</a> are used as a basis for storing the file). The instrument driver can then locate and load the calibration information for the instrument.<br> <span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br> <br> </body> </html>