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>>>>> On 19 Dec 92 00:13:10 GMT, karron@karron.med.nyu.edu (Dan Karron (karron@nyu.edu)) said:


 Dan> If I read in a very large .tiff file from our handy dandy mac
 Dan> scanner, I need to crop it down for a display that will fit the
 Dan> screen.  This involves shrinking the image 50%, and cropping
 Dan> from the top and the bottom.

 Dan> To remove from the top, take pixels from the bottom. And versa
 Dan> visa...(sp?)

 Dan> I use the sgi save format, and it reverses things yet again. I
 Dan> can make only symmetrical crops from the top and bottom to get
 Dan> things almost ok.

 Dan> Is this a known problem (I am running 4.0.2 on an Indigo) ?
 Dan> When will we have some kind of overlay box outline cropping
 Dan> facility ?  I do like the numeric entry for creating nice,
 Dan> symmetrical, even sized images. However, I spend a lot of time
 Dan> guessing at the numbers to get things to come out ok. I have to
 Dan> guess a lot because what the numbers do is not what you would
 Dan> expect from the gizmos!

	Numeric entry is not an option, but I heartily reccomend xv
for many of the image manipulation tasks you may need to do.  It is a
fantastic program, but I am not sure if it is capable of more than 8
bit color.  (i think it is)   It is also free.

Nathan Siemers.

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