I've been trying to get the scan of the SFxN manual done at work
during the lunch hour and am having some problems. The scanner is an
HP Scanjet II, and the software is very coy about what it is actually
doing in terms of resolution, color depth, and sharpening. It has a
rather microsoftish paternalism to it of holding your hand and
concealing its workings behind useless everyday language.
One trial scan of a page produced an image where the fine print
couldn't be read. Another trial with different settings produced a
lovely, highly readable image -- at about 2 megs as a raw bitmap!
Yet another setting gave a 10 meg bitmap!
Can some PDMLer please bail me out with practical advice?
Also, I need practical advice on converting the scans into, say, GIF
format. Pentax seems to have used only two ink colors in this manual,
so one would think that a 16-color palette would suffice, but I am
still having to experiment.
--
Rodger Whitlock
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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