Another possible solution would be to see if the windows viewer that all the users know will run under wine.
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Chuck Hast <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, for some reason the lines even on a good white > rendering come out gray rather than black. As to re- > scanning them, with Emhart it is what it is. I would > be happy if I could just see all of the pages, the fun > thing is that the fax viewer on Windows will view them > just fine. Indeed at times I have to go move them to > a Win XP box to open them as I get tired of fighting > with all of the issues on my linux box. > > What are you viewing them with? As I said, the light > lines, seems to be a part of the way they come out > and I know that has been that way ever since I worked > with them, but the multi-page, that is my real issue. > The only thing that is working at this time is Image > Magic, and that is kind of fiddly to get from one page > to another. > > > > On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Rich Shepard <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > On Tue, 22 Apr 2014, Chuck Hast wrote: > > > > > Here is the link to some tiff samples: > > > https://www.dropbox.com/sh/cl0drntnnj5w6vs/TfUaN2mHqd > > > > > I have imagemagic and it will display them but the 2nd page > > > is sort of grayed out, I can see the drawing but it is gray and > > > the lines are just deeper gray. > > > > Chuck, > > > > When I look at the three pages on dropbox.com, the first two pages > are > > so > > faint they're barely readable. The third page is sufficiently dark to be > > easily read. > > > > Perhaps the issues are with the .tif files and not the viewers? > > > > BTW, I get scanned documents from clients quite frequently. They're > all > > .jpg files and I wonder if whomever in the Engineering Department creates > > these drawings can scan them in a bit-mapped format other than TIFF. > > > > Rich > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > > > > -- > > Chuck Hast -- KP4DJT -- > Glass, five thousand years of history and getting better. > The only container material that the USDA gives blanket approval on. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
