TRANSLATE(1)

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🌈 NAME 🌈

okay so bestie, this is the Translate page from the User Commands corner of the manual — aka TRANSLATE(1) 💅 and it does exactly one iconic thing: it translates colors through an MPP profile. that's the whole vibe. periodt. ✨

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Translate colors through an MPP profile 💖

like. that's it. that's the gig. colors go in, colors come out, the MPP profile is the main character in between. 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

mpplu [-v] [-f func] [-i intent] [-o order] profile

so yeah, you're running mpplu, you're handing it a profile, and everything else is optional flags because we love choices 🫶

👑 OPTIONS 👑

  • -v — Verbose. it talks more. spill the tea, program 🌸
  • -f function — pick your direction, bestie: f = forward, b = backwards. no third option, it's giving binary 🦋
  • -p oride — override the PCS. your choices are x = XYZ_PCS, l = Lab_PCS, y = Yxy, s = spectral 💜
  • -l limit — override the default ink limit, from 1 to N00%. yeah, N00%, that's what it says, i don't make the rules 😭
  • -i illum — choose the illuminant for print/transparency spectral data. options are A, C, D50 (the default, def.), D50M2, D65, F5, F8, F10 or file.sp ⭐
  • -o observ — choose the CIE Observer for spectral data: 1931_2 (def), 1964_10, S&B 1955_2, shaw, J&V 1978_2 👑
  • -u — Use Fluorescent Whitening Agent compensation. glow-up literally 💖
  • -g — Create gamut output 🌈
  • -w — Create gamut VRML as well 🔥
  • -n — Don't add VRML axes. minimalism era 🙈
  • -a n — Gamut transparency level 🧚
  • -d n — Gamut surface detail level ✨
  • -t num — Invoke debugging test code "num", 1..n. specifically: 1 = check partial derivative for device input, 2 = create overlap diagnostic VRML gamut surface 🛠️

🍓 FEEDING IT COLORS 🍓

the colors to be translated should be fed into stdin, one input color per line, white space separated 💅

  • a line starting with a # will be ignored (comments stay unbothered, we love that) 🙈
  • a line not starting with a number will terminate the program. like, that's it, we're done here, goodbye 💀
so fr fr: keep your input clean, one color per line, and don't get cute with a line that starts with something that isn't a number unless you want the program to clock out early. no cap. 😭

and that's the whole page, bestie 🎀 this was TRANSLATE(1) from User Commands, dated September 2014 — mwah, iconic, go translate some colors 💖✨🦋

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