Windows ACM is a bandaid: intended for apps that are not fully color managed.  Qimage has full color management and lets you set your monitor profile to anything you like (even something different than what is identified in Windows).

In addition, Qimage is fully compatible with ACM because since Qimage is doing the color management, all image data that is sent to your display is sent tagged as "display ready".  As such, Windows ACM should not be touching the data and there should be zero difference seen on your monitor whether you turn on/off ACM because Qimage has control and most importantly, it is telling Windows not to use ACM because the data is already profiled by Qimage.  If you are seeing something that disagrees with that, you have something else going on.  We have tested Windows ACM and have a lot of people who use it and I've never seen it cause a problem in Qimage.  Are you sure you don't have some other software (perhaps a utility) installed that overrides the intended Windows behavior, perhaps to "force" apps to try to use ACM even when they shouldn't?  I ask because ACM will not work with most apps: an app has to specifically "make itself" compatible with ACM.  You can't just enable ACM and have it properly color manage an old app that knows nothing about color management: those apps won't know enough to tag the image data so that ACM can use it.

Regards,
Mike

I'm using Windows 11 with a hardware-calibrated EIZO CG2730 monitor.
I have enabled in the (Windows-) Settings > Display > Advanced Display menu the option "Automatically manage color for apps".
This feature enables non-color managed apps to show the correct colors, such as the Desktop Icons, even when I set the monitor
to a color space like AdobeRGB.
A detailed description of this feature can be found here https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/auto-color-management

When the "Automatically manage color for apps" feature is enabled, the colors in the Qimage UI are wrong. Looks like every
file is treated as a sRGB file (see the MS blog).

To get Qimage working with correct Colors, I need to enable the Compatibility Mode "Use legacy Display ICC Color Management" for Qimage.exe as
described here https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/wcs/advanced-color-icc-profiles
In this case, for the Monitor Profile, you must select the "Emulated Color Profile" (which is marked as the Windows Monitor Profile).

It seems to me that Qimage is not fully supporting Windows Auto Color Management as introduced by Windows in 2022. Is that correct?
Is there any plan to update Qimage to work with this “Automatically manage color for apps” (for displays) feature without this work-around?

Regards
Reiner

Qimage is photo printing software.  You cannot print documents from Qimage.  You could rasterize a document in Photoshop and then use the PS plugin to send the pages to Qimage but honestly, I don't see any benefit.  Just print with Acrobat or something that is designed for documents.

Regards,
Mike

Hi
I got Construction drawings, but cant find out how to print out PDFs.
How to I go about doing that.
Br
Ragnar

Thank you Mel. I appreciate your help

Thank you so much Mike. That's great to know and very helpful!

Mel's answer is correct.  All the non-destructive edits are in the same folder as the images.  We have *.flt files from the image editor and if you've done any raw refines, those will be *.qrs files (also stored in the folders with the original images).  So as long as you copy all files in the image(s) folder, you'll get all of the Qimage edits.

Regards,
Mike

Each pictures edit file (.flt file) should be in the same folder as the image itself.  So should move with it.

Hi folks.

I have a large number of images (460GB) which are on my :C Drive. Many of these images have qimage non destructive edits applied. I would like to move everything (keeping the same folder structure) to a new external HDD. I know that I can open folders and use qimage menu to move images, but that process is very slow for thousands of files. If I transfer all the files to the new external HDD first (keeping the same folder structure), is there a way I can maintain all of the non-destructive qimage edits and apply them to the re-located images? I know some applications create seperate files inside the image folder, where they store the edit information but I don't see those with QI. Am I right to assume these are all stored in the qimage database? Can I (for example) copy this database in to the new drive to maintain all the edit data?

Sorry if this info has already been provided. I was unable to find anything in search

Kin regards John

Nice feature ... thanks !