GENERATE(1)

✨ GENERATE ✨

okay bestie, gather round, because this is the targen page from the User Commands manual (it lives in section 1, iykyk) and it's literally about generating test chart color values for a target device. no cap. 💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

Generate — Generate Target deviceb test chart color values. 💅

(yeah "deviceb" is right there in the original, we don't fix, we don't touch, we preserve. periodt.)

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So basically: Generate Target deviceb test chart color values, Version 1.6.3. that's the whole vibe. she's a chart-generating icon and she's on version 1.6.3, no notes. 👑

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

targen [options] outfile

here's the rundown of every single option, and bestie I am NOT skipping a single one, we're going the whole way down the list 🫶

• -v [level] — Verbose mode. the level is optional and it goes 1..N, so crank it as loud as you want. 💬
• -d col_comb — pick your colorant combination from this absolute menu of choices:
  • 0: Print grey
  • 1: Video grey
  • 2: Print RGB
  • 3: Video RGB
  • 4: CMYK
  • 5: CMY
  • 6: CMYK + Light CM
  • 7: CMYK + Light CMK
  • 8: CMYK + Red + Blue
  • 9: CMYK + Orange + Green
  • 10: CMYK + Light CMK + Light Light K
  • 11: CMYK + Orange + Green + Light CM
  • 12: CMYK + Light CM + Medium CM
• -D colorant — Add or delete colorant from combination. pro tip straight from the page: use -?? to list known colorants. 🔍
• -G — Generate good optimized points rather than Fast. glow-up mode ✨
• -e patches — White test patches (default 4).
• -B patches — Black test patches (default 4 Grey/RGB, else 0).
• -s steps — Single channel steps (default grey 50, color 0).
• -g steps — Grey axis RGB or CMY steps (default 0).
• -m steps — Multidimensional device space cube steps (default 0).
• -b steps — Multidimensional body centered cubic steps (default 0).
• -f patches — Add iterative & adaptive full spread patches to total (default grey 0, color 836). the default is Optimised Farthest Point Sampling (OFPS). 💖
• -t — Use incremental far point for full spread.
• -r — Use device space random for full spread.
• -R — Use perceptual space random for full spread.
• -q — Use device space-filling quasi-random for full spread.
• -Q — Use perceptual space-filling quasi-random for full spread.
• -i — Use device space body centered cubic grid for full spread.
• -I — Use perceptual space body centered cubic grid for full spread.
• -a angle — Simplex grid angle 0.0 - 0.5 for B.C.C. grid, default 0.333300.
• -A adaptation — Degree of adaptation of OFPS 0.0 - 1.0 (default 0.1, -c profile used 1.0).
• -l ilimit — Total ink limit in % (default = none).
• -p power — Optional power-like value applied to all device values.
• -c profile — Optional device ICC or MPP pre-conditioning profile filename. (Use "none" to turn off any conditioning.)
• -N nemphasis — Degree of neutral axis patch concentration 0.0-1.0 (default 0.50).
• -V demphasis — Degree of dark region patch concentration 1.0-4.0 (default 1.00 = none).
• -F L,a,b,rad — Filter out samples outside Lab sphere.
• -w — Dump diagnostic outfilel.wrl file (Lab locations).
• -W — Dump diagnostic outfiled.wrl file (Device locations).
• outfile — Base name for output(.ti1).

not me listing all thirty-something of these with zero skips, main character energy only 💅 but fr fr, every flag above is real and every default is exactly as written, so don't come for me.

and that's the page, bestie!! 🦋 this one came from the targen source, dated September 2014, sitting pretty in the User Commands manual alongside GENERATE(1). love that for her. slay, ate, left no crumbs. 🌈💖🎀