RE: [gentoo-user] how to szie an image so it fits on One sheet of paper (command line)

2003-08-01 Thread Henk Abma
Well, obviously it does support jpegs out of the box, it just isn't doing quite what you were expecting it to do. Clear. Converting the image to a size of 72*8.5 results in an image that prints correctly. pnmtops does the scaling automatically as someone else pointed out. However I assume

Re: [gentoo-user] how to szie an image so it fits on One sheet of paper (command line)

2003-08-01 Thread Bryan Feir
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 09:59:52PM +0200, Henk Abma wrote: Well, obviously it does support jpegs out of the box, it just isn't doing quite what you were expecting it to do. Clear. Converting the image to a size of 72*8.5 results in an image that prints correctly. pnmtops does the

[gentoo-user] how to szie an image so it fits on One sheet of paper (command line)

2003-07-31 Thread Henk Abma
Hello, What I wanted to do was to scan a sheet of paper, and reproduce it on my printer, sort of a command-line copier. Since my printer is at 300 dpi, I thought it would be simple: scan the paper at 300 dpi, and enter: lpr scanned-paper. Hovever this gives the result of enlarging the image,

Re: [gentoo-user] how to szie an image so it fits on One sheet of paper (command line)

2003-07-31 Thread Bryan Feir
On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 01:25:11PM +0200, Henk Abma wrote: What I wanted to do was to scan a sheet of paper, and reproduce it on my printer, sort of a command-line copier. Since my printer is at 300 dpi, I thought it would be simple: scan the paper at 300 dpi, and enter: lpr scanned-paper.

Re: [gentoo-user] how to szie an image so it fits on One sheet of paper (command line)

2003-07-31 Thread Henk Abma
On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 07:55:55PM -0400, Bryan Feir wrote: Well, by default, pnmtops in the netpbm package will convert a Portable aNyMap to Postscript, and always reduce it to fit on one page. (You can do 'pnmtops -scale 0.25 input |lpr' to explicitly scale it down; by default it will

Re: [gentoo-user] how to szie an image so it fits on One sheet of paper (command line)

2003-07-31 Thread Bryan Feir
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 02:58:54AM +0200, Henk Abma wrote: In the cups documentation it is stated that cups supports jpegs 'out of the box', so I thought the procedure described was the logical thing to do. Well, obviously it does support jpegs out of the box, it just isn't doing quite