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    <title>fakeread</title>
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      charset=windows-1252">
    <meta name="author" content="Graeme Gill">
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    <h2><b>spectro/fakeread</b></h2>
    <h3>Summary</h3>
    Simulate the measurement of a devices response, using an existing
    device profile, or measured test point data set. The device profile
    can be either an <a href="File_Formats.html#ICC">ICC</a> or <a
      href="File_Formats.html#MPP">MPP</a> profile, or the data set can
    be a <a href="File_Formats.html#.ti3">.ti3</a> file. A device link
    separation or color space conversion can be applied before the
    print/measure simulation, as well as device calibration&nbsp; or
    inverse calibration curves.<br>
    <br>
    <b>fakeread</b> can be useful for creating a data set from an
    existing profile to re-create a different style of profile (i.e.
    create a cLUT profile from a matrix profile), for creating synthetic
    data sets with known amounts of randomness for testing profile
    creation against a perfectly known ideal, or for creating
    verification test sets for checking colorimetric colorspace
    emulation against.<br>
    <br>
    The options below are in the order of color processing that fakeread
    performs.<br>
    <h3>Usage</h3>
    <small><span style="font-family: monospace;">fakeread [-options] </span></small><small><span
        style="font-family: monospace;"></span></small><small><span
        style="font-family: monospace;"></span><i style="font-family:
        monospace;">profile.</i><span style="font-family: monospace;">[icm|mpp|ti3]




      </span><i style="font-family: monospace;">inoutfile</i></small><small><span
        style="font-family: monospace;"><br>
        &nbsp;-v
        [n]&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        Verbose mode [level]<br>
        &nbsp;-e
        flag&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        Video encode device input to sepration as:<br>
        &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;



        normal 0..1 full range RGB levels (default)<br>
        &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        t&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;



        (16-235)/255 "TV" RGB levels<br>
        &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        6&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;



        Rec601 YCbCr SD (16-235,240)/255 "TV" levels<br>
        &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;



        Rec709 1125/60Hz YCbCr HD (16-235,240)/255 "TV" levels<br>
        &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;



        Rec709 1250/50Hz YCbCr HD (16-235,240)/255 "TV" levels<br>
        &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;



        Rec2020 YCbCr UHD (16-235,240)/255 "TV" levels<br>
        &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        C&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;



        Rec2020 Constant Luminance YCbCr UHD (16-235,240)/255 "TV"
        levels<br>
        &nbsp;-p <i>separation.icm</i> Use device link separation
        profile on input<br>
        &nbsp;-E
        flag&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        Video decode separation device output. See -e above<br>
        &nbsp;-Z nbits&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; </span></small><small><span
        style="font-family: monospace;"><small><span style="font-family:
            monospace;">Quantize test values to fit in nbits<br>
          </span></small>&nbsp;-k <i>file.cal</i>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;



        Apply calibration (include in .ti3 output)<br>
        &nbsp;-i <i>file.cal</i>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        Include calibration in .ti3 output, but don't apply it<br>
        &nbsp;-K <i>file.cal</i>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        Apply inverse calibration<br>
        &nbsp;-r
        level&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Add
        average random deviation of &lt;level&gt;% to device values
        (after sep. &amp; cal.)<br>
        &nbsp;-0
        pow&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        Apply power to device chanel 0-9<br>
        &nbsp;-B
        display.icm&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        Use BT.1886 source EOTF with technical gamma 2.4<br>
        &nbsp;-b g.g:display.icm&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Use
        BT.1886-like source EOTF with effective gamma g.g<br>
        &nbsp;-b p.p:g.g:display.icm&nbsp; Use effective gamma g.g
        source EOTF with p.p prop. output black point offset<br>
        &nbsp;-g g.g:display.icm&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Use
        effective gamma g.g source EOTF with all output black point
        offset<br>
        &nbsp;-I intent&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        r = relative colorimetric, a = absolute (default)<br>
        &nbsp;-A
        L,a,b&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        Scale black point to target Lab value<br>
        &nbsp;-l&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;



        Output Lab rather than XYZ<br>
        &nbsp;-s&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;



        Lookup </span></small><small><span style="font-family:
        monospace;"><small><a style="font-family: monospace;"
            href="File_Formats.html#MPP">MPP</a></small> spectral values</span></small><br>
    <small><span style="font-family: monospace;"><small><span
            style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;-R
            level&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
            Add average random deviation of &lt;level&gt;% to output PCS
            values<br>
          </span></small>&nbsp;-u&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;



        Make random deviations have uniform distributions rather than
        normal<br>
        &nbsp;-S
        seed&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        Set random seed<br>
      </span><span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;</span><i
        style="font-family: monospace;">profile.</i><span
        style="font-family: monospace;">[icm|mpp|ti3] &nbsp; &nbsp; </span><a
        style="font-family: monospace;" href="File_Formats.html#ICC">ICC</a><span
        style="font-family: monospace;">, </span><a style="font-family:
        monospace;" href="File_Formats.html#MPP">MPP</a><span
        style="font-family: monospace;"> or&nbsp;</span><a
        style="font-family: monospace;" href="File_Formats.html#.ti3">.ti3</a><span
        style="font-family: monospace;"> profile/file to use</span><br
        style="font-family: monospace;">
      &nbsp; <span style="font-family: monospace;"></span><i
        style="font-family: monospace;">inoutfile</i><span
        style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;
&nbsp;





        &nbsp; Base name for input[</span><a style="font-family:
        monospace;" href="File_Formats.html#.ti1">.ti1</a><span
        style="font-family: monospace;">]/output[</span><a
        style="font-family: monospace;" href="File_Formats.html#.ti3">.ti3</a><span
        style="font-family: monospace;">] file</span></small><br>
    <b><br>
      Examples</b><br>
    <br>
    fakeread profile.icm testvalues<br>
    fakeread -p separation.icm profile.icm testvalues<br>
    <h3>Comments<br>
    </h3>
    <a name="v"></a>The <span style="font-weight: bold;">-v</span> flag
    reports extra information, e.g. on what BT.1886 option is doing. A
    level &gt; 1 will be more verbose.<br>
    <br>
    <a name="e"></a>The <b>-e</b> <i>flag</i> applies a Video encoding
    to the input of the separation.<small><small><br>
        <br>
        &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        normal 0..1 full range RGB levels (default)<br>
        &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        t&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        (16-235)/255 "TV" RGB levels<br>
        &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        6&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        Rec601 YCbCr SD (16-235,240)/255 "TV" levels<br>
        &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        Rec709 1125/60Hz YCbCr HD (16-235,240)/255 "TV" levels<br>
        &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        Rec709 1250/50Hz YCbCr HD (16-235,240)/255 "TV" levels<br>
        &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        Rec2020 YCbCr UHD (16-235,240)/255 "TV" levels<br>
        &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        C&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
        Rec2020 Constant Luminance YCbCr UHD (16-235,240)/255 "TV" lev</small></small><br>
    <br>
    <a name="p"></a>The <span style="font-weight: bold;">-p</span> <b><i>separation.icm</i></b>
    option enables a device to device value conversion before converting
    to expected PCS values. This might be an ink separation of a video
    calibration device link. The argument is the name of the ICC device
    link that defines the separation.<br>
    <br>
    <a name="E"></a>The <b>-E</b> <i>flag</i> applies a Video decoding
    to the output of the separation.<small><small> &nbsp; </small></small>See



    <a href="#e"><b>-e</b></a> for the list of decodings. Setting a
    video encoding for output will also set quantization of 8 bits (see
    -Z flag below). If your video connection is better than 8 bits (ie.
    10 or 12 bits), then you may wish to raise this default.<br>
    <br>
    <a name="Z"></a> <b>-Z nbits </b>Normally the target device values
    are floating point numbers that may get rounded and quantized in the
    process of printing them or reproducing them on the display device.
    If some of this quantization can be accounted for, it may improve
    the accuracy of the resulting profile, and the <span
      style="font-weight: bold;">Q</span> parameter allows this
    quantization to be specified. The parameter is the number of binary
    digits (bits) that the device values should be quantized to. An idea
    of the number of bits of precision that makes its way to your
    display can be obtained by using <a
      href="file:///D:/src/argyll/doc/dispcal.html#R">dispcal -R</a> If
    Video encoding is selected (see -E flag above), then 8 bits is
    selected by default. On systems using an VGA connection or Display
    Port with a graphics card with VideoLUT entries with greater than 8
    bits depth, or if using the MadVR rendered with dithering, then a
    higher bit depth is typically possible.<br>
    <br>
    <a name="k"></a>The <b>-k file.cal</b> parameter specifies a
    calibration file created by <a href="printcal.html">printcal</a> or
    <a href="dispcal.html">dispcal</a>, and the supplied calibration
    curves will be applied to the chart device values after any
    separation and before the device profile. This allows emulating a
    system that uses per device channel calibration. The calibration
    curves will also be included in the resulting .ti3 file, so that
    they can be passed through to the ICC profile allowing accurate
    computation of ink limits.<br>
    <br>
    <a name="i"></a> The <b>-i file.cal</b> parameter specifies a
    printer calibration file created by <a href="printcal.html">printcal</a>
    or <a href="dispcal.html">dispcal</a>, and the calibration curves
    will be included in the included in the resulting .ti3 file, so that
    they can be passed through to the ICC profile, to allow accurate
    computation of ink limits. The calibration <span
      style="font-weight: bold;">is not applied</span> to tchart values.
    <span style="font-weight: bold;">Note</span> that if the supplied
    ICC profile contains VCGT calibration curves, that these will be
    included in the resulting .ti3 by default.<br>
    <br>
    <a name="K"></a>The <b>-K</b> <b>file.cal</b> parameter specifies
    a calibration file created by <a href="printcal.html">printcal</a>
    or <a href="dispcal.html">dispcal</a>, and the inverse of the
    supplied calibration curves will be applied to the chart device
    values after any separation and before the device profile. This
    allows for undoing calibration curves that may be part of a video
    calibration device link, so that the (calibrated device value)
    device profile will work as expected.<br>
    <br>
    <a name="r"></a>The <span style="font-weight: bold;">-r</span>
    parameter is a way of simulating instability in the behaviour of the
    simulated printing system. The parameter supplied to the flag will
    be used to scale a random offset added to the device values (after
    any separation and calibration is applied). The offset will be a
    normally distributed error with an average deviation of level%. A
    typically value supplied might be 1.0 to simulate 1% randomness.<br>
    <br>
    <a name="0"></a>The <span style="font-weight: bold;">-0, -1, -2 ..
      -9</span> parameters are a way of simulating changes in the
    behavior of the simulated printing system. The parameter supplied to
    the flag will be used to modify the device values (after any
    separation, calibration and device randomness is applied) by raising
    them to the power of the parameter. This applies a transfer curve to
    the simulated device response.<br>
    <br>
    <b><a name="b"></a></b>The <b>-[b|B|g|G] [p.p:][g.g:]</b><b>display.icm</b>
    series of options, substitutes an alternative EOTF (Electro-Optical
    Transfer Function) for the one specified by the matrix input
    profile. <b>display.icm</b> is the display ICC profile that
    provides the black point that the gamma curve curves will target.
    Typically these options will be used to create a verification test
    set for checking the operation of a device link or 3dLut created
    using <a href="collink.html">collink</a>, using the same gamma
    curve parameters. See <a href="collink.html#Ib">collink -I b</a>
    for a full explanation of these parameters, and <a
      href="Scenarios.html#TV2">Verifying Video Calibration</a> for more
    detail.<br>
    <br>
    <a name="I"></a>The <span style="font-weight: bold;">-I</span>
    parameter allows changing the intent used in looking up the ICC
    profile colors to relative colorimetric. This would <span
      style="text-decoration: underline;">not</span> be used if you
    intend to make a profile from the resulting .ti3 file, since
    profiles are always made from absolute colorimetric measurement
    values. Note that this flag does nothing if the profile is an MPP or
    .ti3 file.<br>
    <span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br>
    <a name="A"></a>The <span style="font-weight: bold;">-A</span>
    parameter is a way of simulating devices that have a different black
    point to the profile used. This only works if an ICC profile is
    used, and scales the black point to the parameter value. This will
    be done in XYZ space by default, and in L*a*b* space if the <a
      href="#l"><span style="font-weight: bold;">-l</span></a> flag is
    used.<br>
    <br>
    <a name="l"></a>The <span style="font-weight: bold;">-l</span> flag
    causes the CIE output values to be L*a*b* rather than the default
    XYZ values.<br>
    <br>
    <a name="s"></a>The <span style="font-weight: bold;">-s</span> flag
    works if a spectral MPP file is being used as a device profile, and
    causes the output to include spectral values.<br>
    <br>
    <a name="R"></a>The <span style="font-weight: bold;">-R</span>
    parameter is a way of simulating instability in the behavior of the
    simulated measuring system. The parameter supplied to the flag will
    be used to scale a random offset added to the PCS values. The offset
    will be a normally distributed error with an average deviation of
    level%. A typically value supplied might be 1.0 to simulate 1%
    randomness. <br>
    <br>
    <a name="u"></a>The <span style="font-weight: bold;">-u</span> flag
    changes the distribution of the random offsets applied using the <span
      style="font-weight: bold;">-r</span> or <span style="font-weight:
      bold;">-R</span> flags, from the default standard deviation, to a
    uniform deviation distribution. The level is still specified as an
    average deviation.<br>
    <br>
    <a name="S"></a>The <span style="font-weight: bold;">-S</span>
    parameter lets a particular random seed be used when generating
    random offsets, so that the randomness can be made repeatable.
    Normally a different seed will be used for each run. <br>
    <br>
    Fakeread is useful in creating artificial test value for testing <a
      href="colprof.html">colprof</a>, as well as providing one path for
    turning an MPP profile into an ICC profile. It can also be used to
    create a reference file for verifying against. If a <a
      href="File_Formats.html#.ti3">.ti3</a> file is specified instead
    of an <a href="File_Formats.html#ICC">ICC</a> or <a
      href="File_Formats.html#MPP">MPP</a> profile, then the closest
    matching measured points in the .<a href="File_Formats.html#.ti3">.ti3</a>
    are substituted for the test values in the <a
      href="File_Formats.html#.ti1">.ti1</a> file on output. If the <a
      href="File_Formats.html#.ti1">.ti1</a> file is a monochrome test
    file with a White device value, then an RGB <a
      href="File_Formats.html#ICC">ICC</a> profile, <a
      href="File_Formats.html#MPP">MPP</a> or <a
      href="File_Formats.html#.ti3">.ti3</a> may be used, and the White
    values will be translated to equal RGB values. If the <a
      href="File_Formats.html#.ti1">.ti1</a> file is a monochrome test
    file with a Black device value, then a CMYK <a
      href="File_Formats.html#ICC">ICC</a> profile, <a
      href="File_Formats.html#MPP">MPP</a> or <a
      href="File_Formats.html#.ti3">.ti3</a> may be used, and the Black
    values will be translated to equal CMY = 0, K = grey values. <span
      style="font-weight: bold;">Note</span> that any calibration within
    a supplied ICC profile is <span style="text-decoration: underline;">not</span>
    applied during the conversion, although it will be included in the
    .ti3 output (see <span style="font-weight: bold;">-k</span> and <span
      style="font-weight: bold;">-i</span> flags for how apply
    calibration curves during the conversion and/or include a specific
    calibration curves in the output).<br>
    <br>
    If a separation device profile is provided (e.g. from CMY -&gt;
    CMYK, or perhaps CMYK-&gt;CMYK, to simulate a color correction step
    before "printing", or perhaps a Video RGB-&gt;RGB calibration link)
    then this will be applied to the .ti1 device values, before
    converting the the device values into .ti3 PCS values.<br>
    <br>
    <br>
    <br>
    <br>
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