I use LView as my image editor and it can open or save to most common
formats, it is Win9X compatible, for those of us that don't like esoteric
command structures...or have a little less time to experiment.
John :-#)#
At 05:04 PM 7/9/00, Brad Gass wrote:
>Hello, everyone.
>
>Just a bit of scanning/image conversion info that I find useful, maybe you
>will too.
>
>For those of you who don't have Adobe Acrobat, or for that matter, any
>image manipulation software at all, you may want to consider using
>ImageMagick.
>
>It's pretty much command line driven, but hey, that's what batch mode
>processing is all about :)
>
>You can check it out at
>http://www.wizards.dupont.com/cristy/ImageMagick.html.
>
>To do PDF/Postscript conversions, you'll need Ghostscript. You can get it
>at http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/.
>
>A small note here. The Ghostscript main interpreter, gswin32c.exe, must
>be in your path for ImageMagick to work right from the command line when
>manipulating/converting Postscript/PDF files. On my machine, it's at
>c:\aladdin\gs6.01\bin\.
>
>I use it relatively regularly, and find it to be a pretty valuable tool
>when goofing with images.
>
>My two cents, your mileage may vary!
>
>
>Brad
>
>
>On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Dan wrote:
>
> > Ok - the MH schematics are all scanned in, they aren't perfect, but someone
> > better at image manipulation than I can clean them up if they'd like.
> >
> > I have them up on my share: ftp://148.63.2.209 - Yes, it is slow because it
> > is a bi-directional satellite link, but it can now handle 100+ simultaneous
> > connections. (They only have the link optimized for HTTP right now so FTP
> > connections are hideously slow, but at least I have *lots* of room on my
> > local drives...)
> >
> > I am also pushing the bits up to Chris's share at
> > ftp://ftp.westnet.com/pub/users/c/chris/ I'm sure Chris will move them to
> > the arcade share when they are all there.
> >
> > I am trying to convert the images into TIFF format per Al's suggestion, but
> > they are winding up to be multimegabyte files when I do so, I'll keep
> > playing with compression settings and see what I can do.
> >
> > Enjoy!
> > -Dan
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Christopher X. Candreva <chris@westnet.com>
> > To: <vectorlist@synthcom.com>
> > Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2000 7:02 AM
> > Subject: Re: VECTOR: Anyone have the Major Havoc manual to scan ?
> >
> >
> > > On Sat, 8 Jul 2000, Dan wrote:
> > >
> > > > You can pull the scans via ftp here: ftp://148.63.2.209 look in the
> > > > /pub/majorhavoc directory.
> > >
> > > Since his link seem to be a bit taxed, I've mirrored the files at
> > > http://www.westnet.com/~chris/arcade/MajorHavocManual/
> > >
> > > Thanks Dan !
> > >
> > > -Chris
> > >
> > >
> > > ==========================================================
> > > Chris Candreva -- chris@westnet.com -- (914) 967-7816
> > > WestNet Internet Services of Westchester
> > > http://www.westnet.com/
> > >
> > >
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