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David Neiger (neiger@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au) wrote:

: Wolfgang,
:         Could I recommend PhotoFinsh by Z-Soft (although I believe that it is
: now wupported by WordStar).  It supports a wide variety of scanners (hand 
: /colour flatbed) and is an excellent program.  It is reliable (i.e. it 
: hasn't crashed yet) and runs perfectly under Windows 3.1.

: It supports PCX,TIF,MSP (why would you need that), TGA (24 bit), GIF, BMP and
: EPS (great for colour PS if you can afford one).

: No sales plug..I'm just a user but its a package I never regretted buying.


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: David S. Neiger                 |  neiger@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au
:                                 |  neiger@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au

Regarding PhotoFinish:

How do you get PhotoFinish to save a good, high definition image into a file
that can be used by WordPerfect?  My father-in-law uses PhotoFinish and gets
a great image on the screen and if he dumps it directly to his HP laser
printer, the image is also great.  But, if he saves it into a PCX file (or
TIF) for use as part of a WordPerfect document, it loses a lot of definition
and looks quite blah.  He is scanning good quality black and white
photographs with a good scanner, if that matters.

Can you (or anybody) suggest some work-rounds, or possibly somebody can
suggest another scanning program that doesn't have this problem?  He likes
the fact that PhotoFinish doesn't leave him with a grid, but for use in his
geology lab book, the image has to be much better than what he is currently
getting.

If you reply to this, please also send me e-mail.  Thanks.

Stuart Bobb
sjb@fc.hp.com