Somewhat OT: Schematic Scanning, Image Stitching

This isn't totally on-topic (sorry, Neil), but just a little tidbit.

I've used PanaVue (www.panavue.com) to stitch scans together before with
pretty good luck. I even scanned some sideart once (Defender) and
stitched it together so I could trace it in Illustrator or the like.
Have yet to complete that little project, but for use in tracing to
reproduce artwork, it would probably work beautifully.

But anyway, someday, if I live long enough, I'm hoping to scan the manuals
I have and have access to in, full-size, 400DPI BW. I've got access to a
Xerox XES8830 at a company I administrate for, and can scan up to E size
prints all night long if I wanted to!

If anyone has a P.I.T.A. schematic or two they'd like scanned, email me
privately.

Sadly, I don't have any vector schematic scans done, but have several
other Atari raster ones finished, as well as MACH 3, and they turn out
really nice!

Brad

On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Jon Raiford wrote:

> Wow! Those scans look great. How big of a deal was it to get them scanned in? Did you have to set up an appointment? Did you just drop the schematics off and pick them up a week later? Would they have been able to do full color if needed (thinking about side art)? Finally, how did they give you the images? Floppy, CD, Zip disk?
>
> Jon
>
> At 02:50 PM 9/17/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >At the risk of being flamed for double posting, here is some info pertaining
> >to vector games
> >that I posted on RGVAC. Just wanted to be thorough... thanks!
> >-------
> >I posted a few months ago (or thereabouts) that I would scan in the
> >schematics (or drawing
> >packages) for the Battlezone Cabaret and the Lunar Lander. Well, I finally
> >did it!
> >Actually, I got tired of trying to stitch all those sheets together, so I
> >took it down to
> >a blueprint place and paid to have them scanned in! Thank goodness for
> >technology, as they
> >scanned them in a whole sheet at a time (no seams).
> >
> >These are done at 200 dpi for the sake of being compact and in a TIF format.
> >I plan to put
> >them in a PDF format soon, and will upload them to the same link provided
> >below. I will
> >also upload the PDF version to some major manual sites.
> >
> >The Lunar Lander manual is next... but it may be awhile before I get to that
> >one. Scanning
> >sure is boring and time consuming! ;-)
> >
> >I would like to recover the cost of getting these scanned (about $10), so if
> >a few people
> >want to send me 50 cents via Paypal, that would be nice, but by no means
> >required. The
> >download is free for all.
> >
> >http://www.knology.net/~turner/BZC/ (Battlezone Cabaret Documents)
> >http://www.knology.net/~turner/LL/ (Lunar Lander Documents)
> >
> >If I ever have to remove them due to space considerations, I will leave a
> >text document
> >detailing where to find them.
> >
> >BTW, if anyone has a good scan of a backdoor sheet for the Lunar Lander, I
> >would love to
> >have a copy!
> >
> >Enjoy everyone,
> >-Commander Dave
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> >
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