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- From: kholland@hydra.unm.edu (Kiernan Holland)
- Subject: Re: ADPro vs. ImageMaster: Which is better for DTP?
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- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 05:18:59 GMT
- Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
- References: <1992Aug7.060003.8846@sarah.albany.edu> <ottmar.02kx@ajberl.adsp.sub.org>
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- In article <ottmar.02kx@ajberl.adsp.sub.org> ottmar@ajberl.adsp.sub.org (Ottmar Roehrig) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug7.060003.8846@sarah.albany.edu> tw5232@albnyvms.bitnet (Teddy Wang) writes:
- >>I've got two jobs coming up which will require me to buy an image processing
- >>program of professional caliber. I know that the Art Department Professional
- >>and Imagemaster are the two big boys on the block currently, but which will
- >>suite my needs better?
- >>
- >>I will be scanning pictures (B & W film to 256 shades of gray TIFF) using a
- >>hand scanner and a 286. As stated above the pictures will be in TIFF format.
- >>Next, the pictures (which will probably be large since I plan to scan them at
- >>200-300 dpi) have to be cropped (as to get faces.) And finally, the final
- >>cropped output (which I'd like to have in eps format, or 256 grayscale IFF
- >>format) will be imported into a DTP program.
- >>
- >
- >I'd recommend ADPro just (not only) because of the fact that it
- >directly supports scanner-software from within the normal
- >user-interface. You don't have this in ImageMaster. But beware that
- >ADPro needs a lot of RAM. Think of 10-12 MB or more. And finally
- >don't forget that you'll need the Professional Conversion Pack which
- >includes TIFF-Savers and -loaders.
- >
- >Ottmar
- >--
- >AtelierRoehrig UUCP: ...!cbmvax!cbmehq!cbmger!ajberl!ottmar
- >Ottmar Roehrig, ECG130 cbmger.de.so.commodore.com!ajberl!ottmar
- >Hamburg, Germany
- >
- >"There's method in his madness" (Shakespeare, Hamlet II.)
-
- Yes, ADPRO works entirely in either 8-bit or 24-bit modes.
- If your image is color, it will require 3bytes per pixel.
- For a typical 8x11 inch color image from a scanner,
- that is (300x300)x(8x11)x3 bytes per picture. Or about 24 megs.
- The 8-bit picture would require 1/3 that much.
-
- This is one reason why I have said that ASDG needs to
- go with some sort of Pseudo-VM support, like HAMLAB and JPEG Version 3.0.
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