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authorMattias Andrée <maandree@operamail.com>2015-11-29 15:45:37 +0100
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Signed-off-by: Mattias Andrée <maandree@operamail.com>
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crt-calibrator – Calibration utility for CRT monitors
-Copyright © 2014 Mattias Andrée (maandree@member.fsf.org)
+Copyright © 2014, 2015 Mattias Andrée (maandree@member.fsf.org)
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
crt-calibrator is an interactive tool that guides you through
calibrating your CRT monitors. When done, the program will
- print colour ramps information that is useful when setting
+ print gamma-ramp information that is useful when setting
the calibrations automatically. If FILE is specified, this
information is stored to that the file named FILE.
@@ -20,6 +20,21 @@ NOTES
used to calibrate monitors with nice gamma-curves, such as
CRT monitors. Not monitors with sigmoid-curves.
+RATIONALE
+ Few users have calibration hardware, and CRT monitors can
+ be sufficiently calibrated manually without them. However,
+ before crt-calibrator the best way to calibrator CRT monitors
+ was to have specialised test images, with colour bars and
+ samples. But this requires expertise, the common user will
+ know how to contruct these images or the best procedure for
+ applying the corrections. And it is tedious if you do not
+ find any interactive tool for change changing the settings.
+ The alternative why was to use test pictures that relied on
+ you deciding what looked most realistic rather than the
+ image itself telling you. But that's not all, to my knowledge,
+ this is actually the first program that runs outside a
+ display server.
+
SEE ALSO
analyse-gamma(1), blueshift(1)
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+.TH CRT-CALIBRATOR 1 CRT-CALIBRATOR
+.SH NAME
+crt-calibrator - CRT monitor calibrator utility for Linux VT
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.BR crt-calibrator
+.RI [ FILE ]
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.B crt-calibrator
+is an interactive tool that guides you through calibrating your
+CRT monitors. When done, the program will print gamma-ramp
+information that is useful when setting the calibrations
+automatically. If
+.B FILE
+is specified, this information is stored to that the file named
+.BR FILE .
+.PP
+The program cannot be run from inside
+.BR X ,
+it is required that it is run from the
+.BR Linux\ VT ,
+otherwise known as the TTY.
+.SH NOTES
+.B crt-calibrator
+should not be used to calibrate LCD (neither LED or TFT), plasma
+monitors, or OLED. It should only be used to calibrate monitors
+with nice gamma-curves, such as CRT monitors. Not monitors with
+sigmoid-curves.
+.SH RATIONALE
+Few users have calibration hardware, and CRT monitors can be
+sufficiently calibrated manually without them. However, before
+.B crt-calibrator
+the best way to calibrator CRT monitors was to have specialised
+test images, with colour bars and samples. But this requires
+expertise, the common user will know how to contruct these
+images or the best procedure for applying the corrections. And
+it is tedious if you do not find any interactive tool for change
+changing the settings. The alternative why was to use test
+pictures that relied on you deciding what looked most realistic
+rather than the image itself telling you. But that's not all,
+to my knowledge, this is actually the first program that runs
+outside a display server.
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.BR analyse-gamma (1),
+.BR blueshift (1)
+.SH AUTHORS
+Principal author, Mattias Andrée. See the COPYING file for the full
+list of authors.
+.SH LICENSE
+Copyright \(co 2014 Mattias Andrée
+.br
+License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
+.br
+This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
+.br
+There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
+.SH BUGS
+Please report bugs to https://github.com/maandree/crt-calibrator/issues
+or to maandree@member.fsf.org