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 The lprof is distributed under

                GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE

It includes the qtiffio library by Markus L. Noga 
located here http://www.noga.de/markus/qtiffio/ Which is distributued under

		GNU Lessor General Public License 

 As a special exception, Klas Kalass and Marti Maria gives permission to link 
 this program with Qt non-commercial edition, and distribute the resulting 
 executable, without including the source code for the Qt non-commercial 
 edition in the source distribution.

 See file COPYING. for details

   This is the 3nd. public release the profilers. It has not been 
   tested extensively, so is possible some bugs still arises. 
   If so, sorry for the inconvenience, and please feel free to submit 
   any suggestion/solution (if you can find it) in the lprof discussion 
   forum at:

         http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=488887
 
   The main site for the package is located at

         http://sourceforge.net/projects/lprof


  Requeriments
  ============

  In order to execute the profiling utilities, you will need:

  - Trolltech's Qt installed (www.trolltech.com)
  - Littlecms color engine installed (www.littlecms.com)
  - GNU C compiler gcc or equivalent installed. MS VC++ 6 in Windows 
    systems required in order to use Qt.
  - A working make utility. (not required on windows)

  Additionaly, in order to calibrate scanner, you will need an IT8 target.


  
  Installation
  ============

  Untar the package (you already did it) and then type 'make'. There are 
  no files installed outside distribution directory by the build process. 
  You will end up with 5 programs:

	- src/qtMeasurementTool/qtmeasurementtool
	- src/qtMonitorProfiler/qtmonitorprofiler
	- src/qtScannerProfiler/qtscannerprofiler
	- src/qtProfileChecker/qtprofilechecker
	- src/ICCtoIT8/icc2it8


  if something goes wrong, try the gcc compiler by using

    make CC=gcc

  You may also need to tell lprof where your Qt headers, binaries, etc
  are installed. If they're all under one directory, use:

    make QTDIR=/usr/qt3

  (assuming your Qt directory is /usr/qt3 of course). If they're scattered
  around like some Linux distributors do, you can instead specify the location
  of the bits:

    make QT_BINDIR=/usr/bin QT_INCDIR=/usr/include/qt3

  (the above is correct for Debian Sarge, with libqt3-mt-dev installed)

  Note that you can use environment variables instead of make arguments too,
  so if your QTDIR is correctly set in your environment you don't need to do
  anything to get a working build.

  When compilation has completed successfully, you can run:

    make install

  to actually install the binaries. You can use the BASEDIR variable to tell
  lprof where to install everything under.  The default value is /usr/local.
  IN addition you can use BINDIR, INCDIR,DOCDIR and LIBDIR for more detailed 
  control. By default, everything is installed to the bin, lib, share/doc, 
  share/lprof/data and include subdirs of /usr/local.  IF you used non-default 
  setting to install the software use those same setting when running uninstall.

  
 Installing new target reference files
 =====================================
 If the target vendor gives you a diskette, press the "..." button on right 
 and select the floppy drive.  You can add references by copying reference 
 files to your local machine. Target reference files should place this into 
 special directory.

    
   
 Final notes
 ===========

 Don't expect magic. These profilers does build ICC profiles for your
 devices, but is up to the application to use this profiles in order to
 accomplish color management. Adobe's PhotoShop, for example does 
 understand these profiles. Littlecms comes also with a utility for
 converting tiff files. If you want to see how can better this system
 the color reproduction, convert a scanned image to monitor space

    tifficc /iscanner.icm /omonitor.icm image_in.tif image_out.tif

 This version of lprof now supports tiff files inaddition to jpeg 
 and most other graphic file formats.
 
 
