[PLUG] Multi-page TIFF

[Larry Brigman]

Another possible solution would be to see if the windows viewer that all
the users know will run under wine.


On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Chuck Hast <wchast at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, for some reason the lines even on a good white
> rendering come out gray rather than black. As to re-
> scanning them, with Emhart it is what it is. I would
> be happy if I could just see all of the pages, the fun
> thing is that the fax viewer on Windows will view them
> just fine. Indeed at times I have to go move them to
> a Win XP box to open them as I get tired of fighting
> with all of the issues on my linux box.
>
> What are you viewing them with?  As I said, the light
> lines, seems to be a part of the way they come out
> and I know that has been that way ever since I worked
> with them, but the multi-page, that is my real issue.
> The only thing that is working at this time is Image
> Magic, and that is kind of fiddly to get from one page
> to another.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
> >wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 22 Apr 2014, Chuck Hast wrote:
> >
> > > Here is the link to some tiff samples:
> > > https://www.dropbox.com/sh/cl0drntnnj5w6vs/TfUaN2mHqd
> >
> > > I have imagemagic and it will display them but the 2nd page
> > > is sort of grayed out, I can see the drawing but it is gray and
> > > the lines are just deeper gray.
> >
> > Chuck,
> >
> >    When I look at the three pages on dropbox.com, the first two pages
> are
> > so
> > faint they're barely readable. The third page is sufficiently dark to be
> > easily read.
> >
> >    Perhaps the issues are with the .tif files and not the viewers?
> >
> >    BTW, I get scanned documents from clients quite frequently. They're
> all
> > .jpg files and I wonder if whomever in the Engineering Department creates
> > these drawings can scan them in a bit-mapped format other than TIFF.
> >
> > Rich
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