ChromIQ v3.13.4-beta.8

Loading a chart now restores the settings it was made with (a
printerknowledge.com request), and the ChromIQ file dialogs got a usability
pass.

New

• Reloading a chart brings its creation settings back. Whether you open
  a saved profile in Create Chart or load a .ti2 from Print/Measure, the
  options now show the values the chart was actually made with instead of
  stale defaults: for charts made with the ChromIQ layout engine that is
  everything — patch size, spacers, margins, seed, notes, pages and the
  patch count (pinned to the chart's real total) — read from the chart's own
  channels.json; charts made with printtarg (or an older ChromIQ) restore
  instrument, paper and patch count, and a friendly note says which of the
  two happened. The reflected-chart dialog's promise that unlocking starts
  "from these settings" is now literally true.
• The Chart-layout-information panel fills its "on screen" column when a
  saved profile is opened in Create Chart (it stayed all dashes before), and
  the "estimate" column recomputes from the restored settings right
  away, so both columns and the option panels tell one story.

Fixed

• The ChromIQ file dialogs open with a readable sidebar. The shortcuts
  column was so narrow the location names were cut off and every dialog
  needed a manual resize first; it now opens at a comfortable width (and
  stays user-resizable), and dialogs open at a sensible size.
• Six dialogs that still used the operating system's file picker now use
  the ChromIQ one (saving spot readings, saving an ICC in Build Profile,
  layout-preset export/import, clip-template export, and the layout editor's
  image loader — which gained the thumbnail preview), so the
  native-dialogs setting is respected everywhere and every picker carries
  the sidebar shortcuts.

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Installation: Open the DMG, drag ChromIQ to Applications, eject, then launch.

ChromIQ is ad-hoc signed (not notarized). On macOS Sonoma+ the right-click → Open trick often fails with "Apple cannot check it for malicious software." If that happens, remove the quarantine flag in Terminal:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/ChromIQ.app

Then double-click as normal.

Requires macOS 13+ (Ventura) and ArgyllCMS 3.5.0 at /Applications/Argyll/bin.

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☕ ChromIQ is free and always will be — if it saves you time or ink, a coffee is a kind way to say thanks. Completely optional, and the app stays fully featured either way.