| > 1. "Resolution of image cannot be determined. Setting resolution
> to that of display device."
This warning appears because, DDIF file which paint is trying to read in
does not yet have any info on the resolution (the scanner does not place
any info in the DDIF file) so paint cannot tell what resolution the picture
is meant to be. As a default it sets the resolution to the resolution of
the display device. Paint stores the size of the picture in the DDIF file
(in world units - inches or centipoints, I can't remember) when you save a
file, so when reading in a file, it can determine the resolution from the
number of pixels divided by the size, (there wasn't a convenient place
just to store the resolution). When opening a file which has been saved
by paint, this message will not appear.
> 2. "Entire picture will not fit on screen."
This informs the user that the picture is larger in pixels than the size of
the screen. It will be necessary to scroll around in order to edit the
entire picture. You may view the entire picture in a scaled form using the
Full View option from the options menu.
> Secondly, PAINT gracefully reports an error message when I try and
> edit a colour image. However, I get an ACCVIO when I attempt to
> edit a 256 grey scale image.
I'll look into this. Can you give me a pointer th the grey scale image.
Thanks.
> Third. Dynamically and reversibly zooming in and out of the image would
> be a great help.
We'll see. The zoom function right now gives an 8x zoom of a (variable
size) portion of the picture. Editing becomes very tricky if there is more
than one picture pixel per screen pixel - so there probably wont be editing
of the entire picture in a scaled down form (ie. see the whole thing on the
screen at once and be able to edit it).
> Fourth and finally, when rotating an image, or portion thereof,
> it would be nice to have a 'dial up UI' such that a person does
> not have to enter the number of degrees to rotate the image. Thus,
> at a simple level, when a user selects 'Rotate' an 'icon' appears
> which shows the current orientation of the image. The user then
> has the option of using the mouse to 'grab' the icon and rotate
> it to the desired angle. It would be nice if the image would rotate,
> in real time, with the movement of the mouse, however I don't expect
> to see this until they issue me with a desktop CRAY.
Paint does not yet support rotation, but it will in the next version.
-Jonathan Joseph
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| I think the ability to edit the scanned images is great too, it
makes it nice and easy to get "clean" images if the scanned original
is not very good, although i have had trouble getting DECwrite to
accept the edited versions! This might be as a result of field test
software, or is it?? anyone else have this problem?
Gerry
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| > I just started running under VMS T5.3 and DECwindows V2.0. Two of the
> common error messages I am getting are explained here but I need to
> know why I am getting "The picture is too large". I am trying to input
> scanned C and K(D) images.
Paint can not edit images larger than 3300 x 2550 pixels. This is the size
of an 8� x 11 image at 300 DPI. You should be able to edit scanned pages
without any trouble. Paint also cannot edit images smaller than 10 x 10 pixels.
Oh, when I say no larger than 3300 x 2550 pixels, I mean that the short side
cannot exceed 2550 pixels and the long side cannot exceed 3300 pixels. so
2600 x 2600 is too big.
-Jonathan
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| >Paint can not edit images larger than 3300 x 2550 pixels. This is the size
>of an 8� x 11 image at 300 DPI. You should be able to edit scanned pages
>without any trouble. Paint also cannot edit images smaller than 10 x 10 pixels.
Uh, how about those folks who use A4-sized paper, which is a little bit
taller than 11 inches? Are they going to be out of luck when they try
to edit their scanned images?
--Dan
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