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- From: iversen@dsfys1.fi.uib.no (Per Steinar Iversen)
- Subject: MD30C scanner and related software.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.152953.14396@alf.uib.no>
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- Sender: iversen@vsfys1.fi.uib.no (Per Steinar Iversen)
- Reply-To: iversen@vsfys1.fi.uib.no
- Organization: Department of Physics, University of Bergen, Norway
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 15:29:53 GMT
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- Someone here bought a MD30C scanner here recently. After installing the basic
- software it performs nicely. However all the scanned images are either in DDIF
- or PostScript formats. The idea was that one could use CONVERT/DOCUMENT to
- convert to other formats for export. However this does not work very well:
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- $ conv/doc/message test.img/form=ddif test.tif/form=tiff
- %TIFF-E-UNSUPPLANAR, unsupported planar configuration
- %CDA-E-ERROUTLOG, error messages produced during output conversion, see error log
- %CDA-E-ERROUTLOG, error messages produced during output conversion, see error log
-
- Despite the messages, CONVERT does not produce any error log files either.
- Similarly conversions the other way, from TIFF files created on other systems
- does not work either, the conversion does not create any messages, but the
- VIEW command creates error messages like this:
-
- Used a generic page as default page
- Unsized image of 271 by 414 pixels
- scaled to 49486 by 75600 centipoints
- Error processing image information, cannot display
-
- This is similar to what we get when attempting to display TIFF files known to
- be OK.
-
- Is this software broken, is it likely to be our setup somehow, or do we have
- to wait for the next release? The DECdirect catalogue claimed one could archive
- images in TIFF, TGA, PCX, BMP, EPS and other formats.... We would be happy to
- learn of any ways to make this work.
-
- -psi
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