Re: [OSM-talk] will walkingpapers printed on black and white work?

2010-03-10 Thread Erik Johansson
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: On 27/02/10 05:21, Michal Migurski wrote: Interesting, I've been treating PDF uploads as errors, essentially. =) I wasn't aware of printers that spoke PDF instead of JPEG/TIFF. If this is a common problem I can look into ways

Re: [OSM-talk] will walkingpapers printed on black and white work?

2010-02-27 Thread Tom Hughes
On 27/02/10 05:21, Michal Migurski wrote: Interesting, I've been treating PDF uploads as errors, essentially. =) I wasn't aware of printers that spoke PDF instead of JPEG/TIFF. If this is a common problem I can look into ways of handling it. So far most of the image libraries I've been using

Re: [OSM-talk] will walkingpapers printed on black and white work?

2010-02-27 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Tom Hughes wrote: The PDF that a scanner produces will normally just contain a big embedded bitmap image. No idea how easy that is to extract though. Some scanner software produces a composite PDF with both vector content (OCRed text) and the bitmap image in front. The vector content is

Re: [talk-ph] [OSM-talk] will walkingpapers printed on black and white work?

2010-02-26 Thread maning sambale
Thanks! On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) ajrli...@googlemail.com wrote: Simon Hewison wrote: Sent: 26 February 2010 10:55 AM To: t...@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] will walkingpapers printed on black and white work? On 26/02/2010 08:25, maning

[OSM-talk] will walkingpapers printed on black and white work?

2010-02-26 Thread maning sambale
Hi, I am using walking-papers printed on black white laser printing but I didn't tried uploading the scans (I don't have a scanner). I simply used the map as reference for my mapping. My questions is: If the map is printed on b/w will the rectification work when it's uploaded in

Re: [OSM-talk] will walkingpapers printed on black and white work?

2010-02-26 Thread Ciarán Mooney
Hi, My questions is: If the map is printed on b/w will the rectification work when it's uploaded in walking-papers.org? Yes. The rectification/orientation stuff is done on shape rather than colour. Ciarán ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] will walkingpapers printed on black and white work?

2010-02-26 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Simon Hewison wrote: Sent: 26 February 2010 10:55 AM To: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] will walkingpapers printed on black and white work? On 26/02/2010 08:25, maning sambale wrote: Hi, I am using walking-papers printed on black white laser printing but I didn't tried

Re: [OSM-talk] will walkingpapers printed on black and white work?

2010-02-26 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
El 26/02/2010 12:14, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) escribió: Sadly, this means that the nice HP 9000 multi-function printer at work doesn't really work for it, despite it being A3. But it's pretty easy to convert a PDF to a jpg, no? It depends. There are unix utilities to extract images

Re: [OSM-talk] will walkingpapers printed on black and white work?

2010-02-26 Thread OJ W
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Simon Hewison si...@zymurgy.org wrote: Also, It doesn't warp the images - it shouldn't have to (unless your printer and scanner have serious problems) That might be a useful feature, since it lets you take photos of the paper instead of having to get a 'real'

Re: [OSM-talk] will walkingpapers printed on black and white work?

2010-02-26 Thread Michal Migurski
On Feb 26, 2010, at 2:55 AM, Simon Hewison wrote: I've found that it doesn't work too well if the scan is a low resolution, and it can't cope with PDF scans. Sadly, this means that the nice HP 9000 multi-function printer at work doesn't really work for it, despite it being A3.

Re: [OSM-talk] will walkingpapers printed on black and white work?

2010-02-26 Thread Michal Migurski
On Feb 26, 2010, at 12:38 PM, OJ W wrote: On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Simon Hewison si...@zymurgy.org wrote: Also, It doesn't warp the images - it shouldn't have to (unless your printer and scanner have serious problems) That might be a useful feature, since it lets you take