>From the replies I have received I guess I was not too clear on the question. I have placed a snipit of what I have at http://web.ncf.ca/aa508/snipofAK305ZPS.gif (2.8MB) This is a crop of a scan of about a 1 by 1.5 inch section of a schematic for an Atwater Kent 32 Volt Farm radio. that is about 5 by 8.5 inches in size in the original paper from 1936 that it is on.. I scanned at 1200 DPI and it is quite readable but the GIF file of the entire diagram is about 44mb.! I used a GIF as a JPG is more for Photos and tries to treat the image as a grey scale. For the sample I did not try to "flatten" the contrast down. this should only require a couple of levels of Grey and that alone would make the file much smaller, but depending on the next steps needed, I would not want to throw away information too soon. What I am wanting is to convert that to something like a PDF taht would print out on an 8 1/2 by 11 sheet. Without many re-samplings. When I tried to just convert to a PDF, I got a large file still, but the image had been resampled so many times, that the parts values, which as you can see are just handwritten near the parts were unreadable. Charles MacDonald wrote: > I have collected a bunch of old scehmatic diagrams for varous old > radios. most were cut out of magazines back in the 1930 era. The > drawing were probaly originaly donw on 11X17 Paper, abd were reprinted > as a half page 6*8 1/2 inches. > > What I would Like to do is to scan then on my EPSON STYLUS PHOTO RX500 > which is supported by SANE, and produce a .PDF file, or something > simalar that can print without re-scaling the image. If the scan is > resampled, the anti-aliasing will produce enough confusion taht one will > no longer be able to read the parts values, which on the paper copies > are shown in type that is perhaps 1.5 MM high. > Anyone who can suggest where I should start? -- Charles MacDonald Stittsville Ontario cmacd [ at ] TelecomOttawa [ dot ] net Just Beyond the Fringe http://www.TelecomOttawa.net/~cmacd/ No Microsoft Products were used in sending this e-mail.
