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| From | Dave <dave@triffid.co.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.acorn.misc |
| Subject | Re: Sprite files |
| Date | 2025-02-23 11:54 +0000 |
| Organization | TLP |
| Message-ID | <5bf3aa4d8bdave@triffid.co.uk> (permalink) |
| References | <5bf32b2585newslists@npost.uk> <mpro.ss38ij00gcjvo0mg5.news@stevefryatt.org.uk> <5bf3a4da5fnewslists@npost.uk> |
In article <5bf3a4da5fnewslists@npost.uk>, Chris Newman <newslists@npost.uk> wrote: > In article <mpro.ss38ij00gcjvo0mg5.news@stevefryatt.org.uk>, > Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> wrote: > > On 22 Feb, Chris Newman wrote in message > > <5bf32b2585newslists@npost.uk>: > > > Anyone know a foolproof method for changing sprite files to 2 > > > colours and square pixcels so Sleuth won't complain? > > ChangeFSI? The current version in RISC OS 5 appears to do this easily. > I found I have 1.69 (17-Dec-22) in resources. > I set the sprite output to monochrome 25 coors and that opened in > Sleuth 3 but when I tried to OCR it gave a fatal error warning. > Setting to 16 colours opened in Sleuth but as a big black square - no > text. I'll keep working on it. Interesting reading, this thread has brought forth old night/daymares. Back in the days... Before I moved my graphics stuff over to the Win PC side, we had the need for OCRing, and we tried for years to get Sleuth to convert documents, trying all sorts of scanned documents and settings etc, and it occasionally worked, but very unreliable and exceedingly picky. Yes we were well aware of the image constraints... In the end, I gave up and moved WinPC side, where I can now scan and OCR documents of all sorts without hardly any problems. So just out of interest I ran Sleuth to see if it was as bad as I remembered, and it absolutely was, invariable throwing up an error message "Failed to find any readable text". After trying that WC contents again... While I would wish you well with your task... On a hiding to nothing comes to mind... :-( Dave -- Dave Triffid
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Sprite files Chris Newman <newslists@npost.uk> - 2025-02-22 12:45 +0000
Re: Sprite files Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2025-02-22 14:06 +0000
Re: Sprite files Chris Newman <newslists@npost.uk> - 2025-02-23 10:55 +0000
Re: Sprite files Chris Hughes <news13@noonehere.co.uk> - 2025-02-23 11:31 +0000
Re: Sprite files Chris Newman <newslists@npost.uk> - 2025-02-23 12:01 +0000
Re: Sprite files Chris Newman <newslists@npost.uk> - 2025-02-23 23:34 +0000
Re: Sprite files Dave <dave@triffid.co.uk> - 2025-02-23 11:54 +0000
Re: Sprite files John <newsmcc@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2025-02-23 14:37 +0000
Re: Sprite files Dave <dave@triffid.co.uk> - 2025-02-24 08:30 +0000
Sprite files Dave <dave@triffid.co.uk> - 2025-02-26 11:50 +0000
Re: Sprite files Chris Newman <newslists@npost.uk> - 2025-02-26 16:42 +0000
Re: Sprite files Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2025-02-26 17:45 +0000
Re: Sprite files Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2025-02-26 17:54 +0000
Re: Sprite files Jean-Michel <jmc.bruck@orange.fr> - 2025-02-26 21:10 +0100
Re: Sprite files Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2025-02-26 22:04 +0000
Re: Sprite files Jean-Michel <jmc.bruck@orange.fr> - 2025-02-27 10:07 +0100
Re: Sprite files druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2025-02-28 09:51 +0000
Re: Sprite files Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2025-02-28 10:45 +0000
Re: Sprite files Jean-Michel <jmc.bruck@orange.fr> - 2025-02-28 12:38 +0100
Re: Sprite files Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2025-02-28 14:02 +0000
Re: Sprite files Chris Newman <newslists@npost.uk> - 2025-02-28 15:58 +0000
Re: Sprite files Jean-Michel <jmc.bruck@orange.fr> - 2025-02-28 20:02 +0100
Re: Sprite files Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2025-02-28 11:07 +0000
Re: Sprite files druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2025-02-28 14:17 +0000
Re: Sprite files Chris Newman <newslists@npost.uk> - 2025-02-27 22:17 +0000
Re: Sprite files Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2025-02-27 23:32 +0000
Re: Sprite files Chris Newman <newslists@npost.uk> - 2025-02-28 00:24 +0000
Re: Sprite files Stuart <Spambin@argonet.co.uk> - 2025-02-28 10:45 +0000
Re: Sprite files Jean-Michel <jmc.bruck@orange.fr> - 2025-02-28 12:50 +0100
Re: Sprite files Chris Newman <newslists@npost.uk> - 2025-02-28 15:57 +0000
Re: Sprite files Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2025-02-28 17:24 +0000
Re: Sprite files Jean-Michel <jmc.bruck@orange.fr> - 2025-02-28 20:37 +0100
Re: Sprite files Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2025-02-28 21:26 +0000
Re: Sprite files Jean-Michel <jmc.bruck@orange.fr> - 2025-03-01 11:31 +0100
Re: Sprite files Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2025-03-23 19:14 +0000
Re: Sprite files Jean-Michel <jmc.bruck@orange.fr> - 2025-03-24 11:38 +0100
Re: Sprite files Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2025-03-24 15:20 +0000
Re: Sprite files Jean-Michel <jmc.bruck@orange.fr> - 2025-03-24 18:50 +0100
Re: Sprite files Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2025-03-24 18:46 +0000
Re: Sprite files Jean-Michel <jmc.bruck@orange.fr> - 2025-03-25 10:33 +0100
Re: Sprite files Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2025-03-25 10:40 +0000
Re: Sprite files Jean-Michel <jmc.bruck@orange.fr> - 2025-03-25 19:52 +0100
Re: Sprite files Alan Griffin <ajg@argonet.co.uk> - 2025-03-25 21:45 +0000
Re: Sprite files Jean-Michel <jmc.bruck@orange.fr> - 2025-03-25 23:16 +0100
Re: Sprite files Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2025-03-25 23:52 +0000
Re: Sprite files Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2025-03-25 21:58 +0000
Re: Sprite files Kevin Wells <kev@kevsoft.co.uk> - 2025-02-27 23:27 +0000
Re: Sprite files Chris Newman <newslists@npost.uk> - 2025-02-28 15:53 +0000
Re: Sprite files Kevin Wells <kev@kevsoft.co.uk> - 2025-02-26 21:03 +0000
Re: Sprite files Jean-Michel <jmc.bruck@orange.fr> - 2025-02-24 10:42 +0100
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