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| From | Kevin Wells <kev@kevsoft.co.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.acorn.misc |
| Subject | Re: Sprite files |
| Date | 2025-02-27 23:27 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <1e0ff9f55b.Kevin@Kevsoft> (permalink) |
| References | (6 earlier) <5bf5356db2dave@triffid.co.uk> <5bf5501d72newslists@npost.uk> <93f055f55b.harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> <bcbb56f55b.harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> <5bf5f2ac6enewslists@npost.uk> |
In message <5bf5f2ac6enewslists@npost.uk>
Chris Newman <newslists@npost.uk> wrote:
>In article <bcbb56f55b.harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk>, Harriet Bazley
><harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> wrote:
>> On 26 Feb 2025 as I do recall, Harriet Bazley wrote:
>
>> > On 26 Feb 2025 as I do recall, Chris Newman wrote:
>> >
>> > [snip]
>> >
>> >
>> > > I have a file which consists of many, many PDF pages. They contain
>> > > the words to approx 2075 jazz tunes. I wanted one so I used
>> > > !Snapper to tack a screen shot. I also tried outputting a whole
>> > > page fro !PDF then cropping what I didn't need. Also tried the same
>> > > from MuView. 'Twould seem Sleuth doesn't want to lay with sprites
>> > > taken like this. It seems
>> > >
>> >
>> > OCR won't work with sprites at screen resolution (which is only about
>> > 90x90dpi).
>> >
>> However, depending on how the PDF file was created, i.e. (whether it
>> holds the actual text or whether it is just somebody's wrapper for a
>> collection of fuzzy JPEGS) it might be possible to get the page output
>> at a much higher resolution - you can fake this in !PDF by zooming the
>> view to, say, 400% and then using the Save as Sprite option. It still
>> won't be in monochrome, so you will have to tick the monochrome
>> 2-colour option in ChangeFSI and resave as a Mode 25 sprite.
>
>The original book was printed from a home computer. That has then been
>taken apart re runthrough an automatic feed sacanner to produce a file of
>397 PDF pages (171Mb). Each page has several songs distributed over two
>columns.
>
>By uing !PDF and zooming the view up mightinly I was able to take a
>screen shot of just he song I wanted.
>
>Running that through ChngeFSI at monochrome resulted in a block of black
>instead of text unless I set the output to 256 colours. Then Sleuth3
>worked.
>
>The output wasn't brilliant due to the imitations of te original.
>
>I couldn't find a way of sending a single page to CView and running the
>whole thing caused GView to stop with a window of multiple error messages.
>
With PDFutils you can split the pdf up into single pages, export the pdf
to jpegs, pngs, tiffs plus other graphic formats.
<https://www.riscos.info/packages/DocumentDetails.html#PDFUtils>
Plus my KPDFutil provides a front end so their is no need to enter the
commands:
<http://kevsoft.co.uk/#KPDFutil>
--
Kev Wells
http://kevsoft.co.uk/ https://ko-fi.com/kevsoft
carpe cervisium
British by birth English by grace of God.
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