I got the scanning figured out. Of course that means that I had to add arbitrary rotating and brightness/contrast. The rotating was the hardest part. You know how back in high school you never thought you'd need trigonometry? Now I have to figure out how to make it all work on Windows 98. !@#$% different operating systems.
Well, It's all working in XP. I just finished it, so I need to do some more testing, especially on other operating systems.
1. Click on the scan button to scan the image. I scanned at 300 dpi in grayscale. 2. Select "Rotate Arbitrary..." to fix the crooked scan. It took a couple of guesses, but I added an undo so you can take more than one crack at it. This one ended up being 2.6 degrees clockwise. 3. Draw a box with the crop tool and select crop from the menu. 4. Adjust the brightness and contrast. For old mags somewhere around 50% for each works well. 5. Rotate 90 degrees clockwise and save.
Whew! Lots of work, but I no longer need any other programs to scan and clean up plans before printing. YAY!
< Message edited by Bipe Flyer -- 3/12/2006 9:34:48 AM >
To do some of the image manipulation functions it uses GDI+, which comes with Windows XP. For other versions of Windows, you just need gdiplus.dll installed. Here's the info from Microsoft:
Redistributable files for GDI+. System Requirements Supported Operating Systems: Windows 2000; Windows 98; Windows ME; Windows NT; Windows XP
So the short answer is yes, it should.
< Message edited by Bipe Flyer -- 3/12/2006 11:41:18 AM >
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I too do most of my scans in the black and white. Previews are much faster and oft times the yellowing of old paperor sometimes the lighter colored backgrounds found in some plans just plain does not show up thus making clean up not at all or at the least much easier.
I find that the scan looks cleaner if it is high contrast grayscale. Black and white tends to be more pixelated and you need to find the right threshold to keep the black specks to a minimum. It doesn't really matter because they're just going to be cut up. Black and white definitely makes a smaller file and uses less system resources.
I chose grayscale as an example to show off the brightness/contrast setting. It wouldn't be a big job to add pixel depth conversion.
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I just finished it, so I need to do some more testing, especially on other operating systems. 
