Re: [Hardhats-members] ScanSoft graphic component and The Gimp

2005-10-12 Thread Kevin Toppenberg
Wow, you have some cool tools in your toolbag. Thanks Kevin On 10/11/05, Suchi Pande [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin Toppenberg wrote: OK, Let's say I am willing to support .pdf files. Anyone have ideas about how to go about this: -- OLE adobe's reader? -- Determine what Todd's mystery

RE: [Hardhats-members] ScanSoft graphic component and The Gimp

2005-10-11 Thread David Sommers
Berman Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 9:50 PM To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] ScanSoft graphic component and The Gimp On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 21:29 -0400, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: Todd, Tell me about why .pdf is important. Because PDF is the natural

Re: [Hardhats-members] ScanSoft graphic component and The Gimp

2005-10-11 Thread Kevin Toppenberg
Suchi, Thanks for the excellent link. I found the URL: http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php Thanks! Kevin On 10/10/05, Suchi Pande [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Basically, attempting to use the gimp for this is pretty scary and heavy stuff. Deployment on windows becomes far more

Re: [Hardhats-members] ScanSoft graphic component and The Gimp

2005-10-11 Thread Kevin Toppenberg
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Todd Berman Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 9:50 PM To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] ScanSoft graphic component and The Gimp On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 21:29 -0400, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: Todd

Re: [Hardhats-members] ScanSoft graphic component and The Gimp

2005-10-11 Thread Todd Berman
On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 21:37 -0400, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: OK, Let's say I am willing to support .pdf files. Anyone have ideas about how to go about this: -- OLE adobe's reader? -- Determine what Todd's mystery library is (gtk+?) libpoppler. Again, not a viable option for a Delphi/Win32

Re: [Hardhats-members] ScanSoft graphic component and The Gimp

2005-10-11 Thread Mark Dalton
Isn't the goal to move to portability? In other words away from Delphi? That is one of the problems with CPRS already. MarkOn 10/11/05, Todd Berman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 21:37 -0400, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: OK, Let's say I am willing to support .pdf files. Anyone have

Re: [Hardhats-members] ScanSoft graphic component and The Gimp

2005-10-11 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
On Oct 11, 2005, at 7:16 PM, Mark Dalton wrote: sn't the goal to move to portability? In other words away from Delphi? That is one of the problems with CPRS already. Mark That's certainly what I thought. === Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] One must shy away from questionable

Re: [Hardhats-members] ScanSoft graphic component and The Gimp

2005-10-11 Thread Todd Berman
On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 21:16 -0500, Mark Dalton wrote: Isn't the goal to move to portability? In other words away from Delphi? That is one of the problems with CPRS already. Speaking from experience, reimplementing CPRS is not for the faint of heart, and honestly, is not going to be

Re: [Hardhats-members] ScanSoft graphic component and The Gimp

2005-10-11 Thread Kevin Toppenberg
That may be the goal of the powers that be, but right now VistA is being adopted as a practical solution. And I am able to code in Delphi, so there is no reason for me not to extend it for my site. Kevin On 10/11/05, Mark Dalton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't the goal to move to

Re: [Hardhats-members] ScanSoft graphic component and The Gimp

2005-10-11 Thread Kevin Toppenberg
On 10/11/05, Todd Berman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 21:37 -0400, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: OK, Let's say I am willing to support .pdf files. Anyone have ideas about how to go about this: -- OLE adobe's reader? -- Determine what Todd's mystery library is (gtk+?)

Re: [Hardhats-members] ScanSoft graphic component and The Gimp

2005-10-11 Thread Suchi Pande
Kevin Toppenberg wrote: OK, Let's say I am willing to support .pdf files. Anyone have ideas about how to go about this: -- OLE adobe's reader? -- Determine what Todd's mystery library is (gtk+?) -- send all media to an imbedded internet explorer (and let it handle the various file types,

RE: [Hardhats-members] ScanSoft graphic component and The Gimp

2005-10-11 Thread David Sommers
: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 10:56 PM To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] ScanSoft graphic component and The Gimp On 10/11/05, Todd Berman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 21:37 -0400, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: OK, Let's say I am willing to support

RE: [Hardhats-members] ScanSoft graphic component and The Gimp

2005-10-11 Thread David Sommers
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Toppenberg Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 10:56 PM To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] ScanSoft graphic component and The Gimp On 10/11/05, Todd Berman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 21:37 -0400, Kevin

Re: [Hardhats-members] ScanSoft graphic component and The Gimp

2005-10-11 Thread Suchi Pande
I said: htmldoc is a another fine linux/MS windows command line utility http://www.wdvl.com/Authoring/Languages/Perl/PerlfortheWeb/index16.html is a quick perl-centric introduction to it. man htmldoc on my linux box is pretty good too for the details. PJ

Re: [Hardhats-members] ScanSoft graphic component and The Gimp

2005-10-10 Thread Todd Berman
On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 18:47 -0400, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: I have taken a few minutes and went through several (but not all) of the modules in VistAImaging to see how it uses the propriatary graphic module TGear created by AccuSoft (www.accusoft.com). Here are the methods and properties that

Re: [Hardhats-members] ScanSoft graphic component and The Gimp

2005-10-10 Thread Kevin Toppenberg
Hmmm what are you all doing for upload scanning/rotating/manipulation etc.? My current system is to allow the user to select an image file to upload. I.e. I don't have integrated TWAIN interface etc. One application of this might be to have incoming faxes to be delivered to a preset

Re: [Hardhats-members] ScanSoft graphic component and The Gimp

2005-10-10 Thread Todd Berman
On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 19:16 -0400, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: Hmmm what are you all doing for upload scanning/rotating/manipulation etc.? We have (and are) writing code to do it, so you can do all of your basic manipulations from inside our application. We do not have an integrated TWAIN

Re: [Hardhats-members] ScanSoft graphic component and The Gimp

2005-10-10 Thread Ismet Kursunoglu
Basically, attempting to use the gimp for this is pretty scary and heavy stuff. Deployment on windows becomes far more difficult, and you are asking for a lot of trouble. Not to mention that a delphi app and a gtk+ app are not going to cooperate really well, and its not like you can embed

Re: [Hardhats-members] ScanSoft graphic component and The Gimp

2005-10-10 Thread Kevin Toppenberg
Ismet, I had not seed that. Excellent link. Thanks! Kevin On 10/10/05, Ismet Kursunoglu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Basically, attempting to use the gimp for this is pretty scary and heavy stuff. Deployment on windows becomes far more difficult, and you are asking for a lot of trouble.

Re: [Hardhats-members] ScanSoft graphic component and The Gimp

2005-10-10 Thread Kevin Toppenberg
Ben, This was a great reply. It does validate my approach. I am just worried that it won't be simple enough for some people. I am going to play with this a bit on my own, and try to make the work flow as straightforward as possible. Thanks. Kevin On 10/10/05, Ben Mehling [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Hardhats-members] ScanSoft graphic component and The Gimp

2005-10-10 Thread Kevin Toppenberg
Todd, Tell me about why .pdf is important. I could attach any file I want to a note. The issue will be the generation of thumbnails, and also the display of the .pdf documents. Are you going to host the .pdf viewer in your application? It seems that would also make deployment more difficult.

Re: [Hardhats-members] ScanSoft graphic component and The Gimp

2005-10-10 Thread Nancy Anthracite
I agree that pdf is important. For one thing it is one of those few things that will survive email pretty much unscathed by antivirus software and it is pretty universal at this point so it is very likely you will be receiving images in that format via email, etc. The good news is that most

Re: [Hardhats-members] ScanSoft graphic component and The Gimp

2005-10-10 Thread Todd Berman
On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 21:29 -0400, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: Todd, Tell me about why .pdf is important. Because PDF is the natural choice for text documents, just as TIFF was 10 years ago. I could attach any file I want to a note. The issue will be the generation of thumbnails, and also

Re: [Hardhats-members] ScanSoft graphic component and The Gimp

2005-10-10 Thread Suchi Pande
Basically, attempting to use the gimp for this is pretty scary and heavy stuff. Deployment on windows becomes far more difficult, and you are asking for a lot of trouble. Imagemagick is a high level command line suite for image manipulation. Great for batch processing images in linux and ms