[Gimp-user] GIMP, .pdf, and threshold

2016-04-11 Thread m . roth
Hi, folks, I'm running CentOS 6.7, and the most current GIMP for that, 2.6.9-8. A friend, half a continent away, is scanning parts of a number of old 'zines for me. From that, The originals were printed on colored paper I want to do OCR. On a couple of .pdfs, one I d/l from the 'Net, a

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP, .pdf, and threshold

2016-04-11 Thread m . roth
Hi, Tobias, Tobias Jakobs wrote: > 2016-04-11 16:40 GMT+02:00 : >> >> I'm running CentOS 6.7, and the most current GIMP for that, 2.6.9-8. > > Uff, that's an really old version... It's what's current for CentOS 6 (and I *really* am putting off going to CentOS 7 as long as possible, I despise sy

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP, .pdf, and threshold

2016-04-11 Thread m . roth
Kevin Payne wrote: > My initial guess would be that your image mode is Indexed. > > Check Image>>Mode and make sure it is set to RGB after importing the > images. > I *think* it's RGB, but I'll doublecheck that. Thanks. mark > Kevin > > > > From: g

[Gimp-user] [Fwd: Re: GIMP, .pdf, and threshold]

2016-04-12 Thread m . roth
Hi, Tobias, Original Message From:m.r...@5-cent.us To: "Tobias Jakobs" Cc: "gimp-user-list@gnome.org" -- Tobias Jakobs wrote: > 2016-04-11 16:40 GMT+02