Downloading Display Calibrations, Named Color Palettes & OEM
instrument files
Some instruments come with files that are either needed for their
operation, or enhance their operation, and you will need to
download these files to your Android Device
to make use of them.
For files that are packaged into the software that comes with
your instrument, or has been installed on a personal computer, a
special utility oemdnld is provided to run on that
computer, to allow these files to be located, extracted from
archives, and transferred to your Android device. Version 2.3.2 or
latter should be used:
To be able to run oemdnld, you first need to de-archive it, and save
it somewhere you are able to run it from. It is best run from the
command line, since this easily lets you provide arguments to it,
although you could also create a shortcut to run it if you like.
If you just run oemdnld, it will search your computer for installed
files. If you have the OEM files on a CD or DVD and have it in the
computers optical media drive, oemdnld will search on the CD or DVD
for files to install. If you do not have an OEM CD, or do not have a
CD drive on your computer, then you will need to download from the
instrument manufacturer, or copy from the OEM CD, the MSWindows
install executable file (typically the setup.exe file) and run
oemdld with the file path to that file as an argument. This can be
done from a command line shell, or by creating a shortcut to oemdld,
and then modifying the shortcut to supply setup.exe as the argument.
You may need to set oemdld to start in the same folder as the
setup.exe file. If you have individual files (such as display
calibration .ccmx or .ccss files, instrument support files such as
spyd2PLD.bin or spyd4cal.bin, or Named Color Palette files .cxf,
.cxf2, .cxf3, .icm, icc), you can also provide the path to them as
arguments to oemdnld, or you could download them individually using
the import button of
the OEM file Download and Install dialog.
When run, oemdnld will pop up a local web page in your browser, and
indicate what local URL it can be found at, and what OEM files it
has found to download. Once open, choose the Measurement menu Downloading Display Calibrations & OEM
instrument files.
On some systems you may have to modify your machines firewall or
internet permissions to allow port 8080 to be accessed by your
Android Device. Access also depends on mDNS/Zeroconf being able to
run on your local network.
Touch Search to start searching for the local oemdnld Web
server.
When complete, you can touch Done to dismiss the dialog.
When you have individual files to install that don't need extracting
from an install archive, you can use the Import button on
the OEM file Download and Install dialog to open the Android
file selection dialog. You can browse the storage on your Android
device, or select remote file using Google Drive or equivalent, and
once selected, the file will be installed.
To remove installed files, either clear ColorMeter data in
Settings->Apps (which will clear most settings and the
Measurement Log), or use an Android File manager such as Google
Files or IO File Manager to locate the files under
Internal_Storage->Android->data->com.argyllpro.colormeter
under the instrument and ncpalettes directories, and delete them.
(Note that any .cal files are the latest instrument self calibration
files.)
Named Color Palettes
The Named Color and Named Color Swatch Readouts will match the
measured color to the closest color in the selected Named Color
Palette library. ColorMeter supports two Named Color Palette file
formats: ICC, and CxF version 2 or version 3.
A very limited number of free Named Color libraries come
pre-installed with ColorMeter, currently just the W3C Extended
colors.
A source of the popular Pantone® 3rd party commercial
Named Color sets, is to purchase a copy of Pantone
Color Manager where you can export the libraries you want to
use in cxf format using the "Save as..." menu item, and then
Download them to ColorMeter.
[ Note that it is not possible to use any of Pantone's Mobile Apps
for this purpose. ]
If you have an X-Rite or Pantone instrument such as the i1Pro 2/3
or i1Display Pro etc., then it may have come with a copy of
Pantone Color Manager or other CxF files - check the included
software.