Re: [Lcms-user] Anncouncement LPROF 1.10 released

[Bjorn H. <bjo...@hp...>]

On Wednesday 24 August 2005 2:23 pm, T E Schmitz wrote:
> Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > Is anybody working on support for hardware colorimeters like the
> > ColorVision Spyder?  I looked around for the documentation required
> > to write a driver for it, but haven't found anything.
> 
> To my knowledge, the interface to the hardware ("Spyder") is not 
> publicly available.
> 
> Two years ago, I came across a newsletter on the ColorVision site 
> stating that OptiCal was going to be available under Linux.
> In November 2003 I enquired about the Linux version, and here's the answer:
> 
> <quote>
> 
> Below is our canned response for Linux questions. Only OptiCAL is 
> compliant with Linux.

Yep, I got the same canned response.  Unfortunately, the support
they have only works with ancient versions of Linux, it doesn't
work for the USB colorimeter, and it doesn't work for architectures
other than x86.  And, of course, it wouldn't work with LPROF.

If I could find a protocol spec, I could write a Linux driver
that would address all these issues.