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- From: ns14@crux3.crux2.cit.cornell.edu (Nathan Otto Siemers)
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- Subject: Re: imgworks don't
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- Date: 19 Dec 92 18:40:58 GMT
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- Organization: Department of Chemistry, Cornell Univ.
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- In-Reply-To: karron@karron.med.nyu.edu's message of 19 Dec 92 00:13:10 GMT
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- >>>>> On 19 Dec 92 00:13:10 GMT, karron@karron.med.nyu.edu (Dan Karron (karron@nyu.edu)) said:
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- Dan> If I read in a very large .tiff file from our handy dandy mac
- Dan> scanner, I need to crop it down for a display that will fit the
- Dan> screen. This involves shrinking the image 50%, and cropping
- Dan> from the top and the bottom.
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- Dan> To remove from the top, take pixels from the bottom. And versa
- Dan> visa...(sp?)
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- Dan> I use the sgi save format, and it reverses things yet again. I
- Dan> can make only symmetrical crops from the top and bottom to get
- Dan> things almost ok.
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- Dan> Is this a known problem (I am running 4.0.2 on an Indigo) ?
- Dan> When will we have some kind of overlay box outline cropping
- Dan> facility ? I do like the numeric entry for creating nice,
- Dan> symmetrical, even sized images. However, I spend a lot of time
- Dan> guessing at the numbers to get things to come out ok. I have to
- Dan> guess a lot because what the numbers do is not what you would
- Dan> expect from the gizmos!
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- Numeric entry is not an option, but I heartily reccomend xv
- for many of the image manipulation tasks you may need to do. It is a
- fantastic program, but I am not sure if it is capable of more than 8
- bit color. (i think it is) It is also free.
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- Nathan Siemers.
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