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| 1642.1 | Do you have a MAC? Call Microtek | NOBOZO::MILLING | | Wed Nov 01 1989 06:40 | 19 |
| ref: .0
You'll need to run the MSF-300G off a MAC. There are several
application packages from Microtek or 3rd-parties that can be used.
The best way to save the image is in a TIFF file. Then, you can
use network utilities to move the file to a VAX and run it through
the TIFF to DDIF converter (one of several CDA converters).
If you used the MSF-300G to bring in a bitonal image then you are
all set; things like DECpaint and DECwrite should be able to handle
the image just fine.
On the other hand, if you used the greyscale capability of the
MSF-300G (I understand that the TIFF to DDIF converter supports
greyscale images), then you are currently quite restricted in
that DECpaint and DECwrite haven't upgraded to use the as yet
unreleased DECimage V2 with greyscale capability.
Bob
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| 1642.2 | | NOBOZO::MILLING | | Wed Nov 01 1989 06:42 | 7 |
| ref: .1
I forgot to mention that the early MSF-300G doesn't connect to any DEC
platform except maybe the Tandy. Later versions have a MAC-compatible
SCSI which, again, doesn't connect to any DEC platform.
Bob
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| 1642.3 | What about over ascii line? | JOHNSN::JOHNSON | Good Night America, wherever you are | Wed Nov 01 1989 19:53 | 7 |
| This particular scanner is currently connected to a serial port on an Ultrix
Firefox. The existing software is slow (6 minutes to scan 8 X 10 @ 75dpi) but
the real problem is that the current software only writes out a primitive
version of a IFF file format (only one header is filled in). Does anyone
know of any software that will handle the Microtek MSF-300G on a serial line?
-- Thanks, Phil
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| 1642.4 | Documentation? | GR8FUL::HERBERT | Orwell was only off by a few years | Thu Nov 02 1989 11:36 | 4 |
| What documentation do you have on the device protocol? Writing
something that produced DDIF might not be that difficult.
Kevin
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| 1642.5 | Pointer | REGENT::BROOMHEAD | Don't panic -- yet. | Thu Nov 02 1989 11:52 | 3 |
| Ask this question in the VISUAL::IMAGING conference.
Ann B.
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