In case you haven’t noticed, there is a free tool available for download from our site, called Serendipity ICCtool. In essence this little utility allows you to select a pair of ICC profiles and see how colours are converted between them. Input profiles can be scanner, monitor or printer profiles and output profiles can be monitor or printer profiles. Both RGB and CMYK colourspaces are supported. Since this utility uses the same CMS as Blackmagic and Megarip it gives you a fair idea how colours would be converted through those systems.
Input values can be either RGB, CMYK or Lab so the utility can also be used as a high quality Lab to CMYK conversion tool. Input values can also be read using any of the supported spectrophotometers. Selecting a monitor profile allows you to see exactly how the colour would print using the selected profiles.
More information and download links for Serendipity ICCtool are available here
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If you want to run Blackmagic or Megarip as a service on a windows box then it is very simple. This will prevent the need to log into the windows machine allowing you to connect from another client once the server is up and running. To do this follow the steps below.
1. Make sure that the software is installed and will run normally. Then quit the server.
2. Select Settings -> Control Panel -> Scheduled Task
3. Select Add Scheduled Task
4. Select Next
5. Choose Browse from the next window.
6. Navigate to the installation folder and then in the bin folder select the bmserver.exe file
7. Choose to run the task “When my computer starts”.
8. It will default to the user that you are currently logged in as. Enter the password for the user.
9. Select the “Open advanced Properties” and click finish.
10. Choose the ‘Settings’ tab and un-check (turn off) the “Stop task if it runs for” check box. This defaults to stop the task after 72 hours.
11. Reboot the computer and test it.
Once the computer is back to the log in stage the server should start. It may take a minute or two to be fully operational and be able to respond to Client request. This time varies depending on the number of items you have in the database. Run a client from another computer and se if you can see it in the “connect to server” dialogue. If the service has not started go back to the Scheduled tasks folder as there is usually some indication as to why the service did not start. (Make sure you have the explorer set to View details).
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Today we released new versions of both Serendipity Blackmagic and Megarip. Highlights of this release include support for ICC version 4 profiles and better PDF support for JPEG 2000 images.
More information on the Blackmagic release can be found here, while more details on the Megarip release are available here.
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