On Sunday, April 24, 2011 02:23:41 pm Carusoswi wrote: > >Mathias Lindner wrote: > >> The best format would be a vector graphic as suggested. But from my > >> experience it's hard to get a good one from pixel files. > > > >There are programs you can use that can convert (or try to convert) a > >bitmap image to a vector graphic one. One such option is Autotrace which > >you can get from SourceForge at http://autotrace.sourceforge.net/. > > Thanks for all the replies. It might make my situation clearer if I > explain that I do not need to maintain much quality when converting these > drawings, except that I need to preserve s certain level of detail so that > I can read them after I import them into the application for which I am > trying to downsize. > > Of course, the problem that I have run into this morning was that my > application was choking on the tiff files, and most of the solutions I > tried either did not result in smaller files, or the smaller result was so > fuzzy that I could not make out certain details I need in order to work > with the drawings. > > I did manage to crop away unnecessary areas of the original tiffs, so was > finally able to import them at their full resolution into my application > so that I could complete my project. > > Will try all the mentioned solutions to see which yields the optimum > results. I'm not certain my application can work with gif's, however. > > Thanks again. > > Caruso
Gifs are only suitable for web pages. So that should not be an issue one would hope. With respect to your original tiff files, if you have a suitable viewer you can view them as is. On Slackware Linux I have several, including XV and Gwenview. Ubuntu typically doesn't come with a complete set of tools but you could try downloading either of the two I mention above. Then once set at a suitable enlargement you can use Ksnapshot to save the drawing as a png file at 72dpi. -- John Culleton Create Book Covers with Scribus: http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
