Digital BW, The Print

Maybe I should change the QTRgui license to make it's use contingent on paying
Roy the $50 :>)

-Stephen
 www.sbillard.org/Stephen


> -----Original Message-----
> From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
> [mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On 
> Behalf Of Peter Marquis-Kyle
> Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 6:36 AM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] QTR fees
> 
> 
> Myron Gochnauer wrote:
> 
> > The problem with Roy's description of fees is that there are *three*
> > distinct parts:
> > 
> >     1) Print engine (free under the GNU license)
> > 
> >     2) Profile utility or utilities (shareware - $50)
> > 
> >     3) User interface for 1 as well as 2.
> > 
> > Since I have no idea how to use Gimp-Print (which is on my Mac) to
> > print using any of the QTR profiles, let alone manipulate ink  
> > density, etc., I paid my $50. That $50 gave me the right to use an  
> > interface and set of programs to do things I could not 
> otherwise do.  
> > Even if I don't want to "roll my own" profiles, I need the  
> > interface... and that's Roy's work. I don't mind paying for it.
> 
> Just to complicate things a little more, most Windows users 
> also use a 
> 4th part, QTRgui, which adds a graphical interface to Roy 
> Harrington's QTR.
> 
> QTRgui is the work of Stephen Billard, and I'm very grateful for his 
> program which makes QTR much easier to use.
> 
> QTRgui is freeware, and is packaged with the Windows version of QTR.
> 
> Peter Marquis-Kyle
> 
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