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<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>
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<small><span style="font-family: monospace;">spyd4en [-v] [<span
style="font-style: italic;">inputfile</span></span>]<br
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<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
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<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>
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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>
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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
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<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>
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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>
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<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
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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>
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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>
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