On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 09:04:22PM -0500, Charles MacDonald wrote: > > http://web.ncf.ca/aa508/snipofAK305ZPS.gif (2.8MB) I converted that image to a jpeg and resized it to 25% of the original and I find it more then adequate. You can still see the grain of the paper. The filesize is 5% of the original. I suggest that scanning at 300dpi and storing the image as a greyscale JPEG would be your best bet. I can't see what would be wrong if the schematics were stored this way. To convert and resize I use the imagemagick package with the command: convert foo.gif -resize 25% foo.jpg -- sg