DESCRIPTION
PatchTool is designed to:
- Visualize color lists as color patches (color spaces: xyY, XYZ, L*a*b*, L*C*h*, RGB, CMYK, and spectral
data)
- Import color lists defined in industry standard file formats (CGATS, CxF V-1.0)
- Switch between the Measured, Random, or Visual layouts of ECI2002 and IT8.7/4 color charts
- Import color lists created with spreadsheets or word processors
- Import/export spectral data scaled between 0 and 1 or between 0% and 100%
- Import/export spectral data defined in a range of 380 to 730 nm or 400 to 700 nm
- Import RGB data encoded in 8 bit, 15 bit, 16 bit, or scaled to 100%
- Measure color patches on your display and check your display calibration (White Point, grey ramp, primaries)
using a DTP94, Eye-One Pro, Eye-One Display, Spyder2, or Spyder3
- Compare a patch in a file to a patch in any other file, and get the color difference value
- Compare two files in the same window and get detailed statistics on their differences
- Facilitate the printer and monitor certification processes defined by IDEAlliance
- Average color lists using weighted or un-weighted methods
- Re-order, rename and renumber color lists; turn and mirror patch layouts; flip rows and columns
- Convert color lists to standard color spaces (xyY, XYZ, L*a*b*, L*C*h*, RGB, CMYK)
- Convert color lists using one or two RGB or CMYK ICC profiles
- Generate device dependent (RGB, CMYK) and device independent (L*a*b*, L*C*h*, XYZ) color lists
- Check if a color list is clipped by a destination profile
- Determine the gamut volume of a profile
- Export color lists as standard CGATS files or in a simplified text format
- Export RGB in 8 bit, 15 bit+ (i.e. Photoshop 16 bit), true 16 bit, or scaled to 100%
- Export color lists to Munsell color space
- Export color lists in many image formats (including TIFF-L*a*b* and TIFF-CMYK, 8 and 16 bit)
- Export color lists to be used as 'Color Decks' in the BabelColor CT&A program (sold separately)
WHAT'S NEW
Version 2.6:
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Open CxF Version-2 files, such as the ones generated by the X-Rite
ColorMunki:
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Import a Color Collection, or a Color Set within a Palette, into a
PatchTool file.
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Import Quality Control standard or
measurement data into individual
files, or import
both the standard and one measurement set into a PatchTool
Compare window.
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Support for the following reflectance color
spaces: L*a*b*, L*C*h*, XYZ, xyY, AdobeRGB, sRGB, RGB, CMYK, plus
spectral data.
Improvements:
- Added menu shortcuts to folders containing
sample files and IDEAlliance reference files.
- Added a “Recent Open” menu where the last 10
files that were opened can be accessed directly.
- Added keyboard shortcuts to all tools, for
window organization functions, and for the Help file.
- Added the 2009 versions of the ISO 12647-7
reference files in the
IDEAlliance files folder and restructured the IDEAlliance help
documentation.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed the contextual copy-data menu in the Compare window
“Patch view” tab, where only the Reference data was copied.
- Fixed the problem in the Average tool where the average
of spectral data was sometimes scaled incorrectly.
- Fixed issues with the previous keyboard shortcuts.
- Now correctly computes the size of the vertical markers,
used to separate patches in a target image, when a change is made in the
resolution field of the Image tab in the Export window.
- (Windows XP) Fixed the problem where some popup menus
would not work properly in the Traditional Chinese version of the OS.
REQUIREMENTS
Minimum: Mac OS X, 750 MHz, 1024 x 768 display, 32 bit color, 512 MB RAM
Suggested: Mac OS X 10.4, 1.0+ GHz, 1280 x 1024 display, 32 bit color, 1 GB RAM

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