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Re: A serious challenge for Feeb

From owl <owl@rooftop.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject Re: A serious challenge for Feeb
Date 2019-02-12 04:22 +0000
Organization O.W.L.
Message-ID <saczv8083ta.u@rooftop.invalid> (permalink)
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DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote:
> On 2/11/2019 10:50 PM, Steve Carroll wrote:
>> On Monday, February 11, 2019 at 8:19:47 PM UTC-7, DFS wrote:
>>> On 2/11/2019 8:45 PM, Steve Carroll wrote:
>>>> On Monday, February 11, 2019 at 6:39:27 PM UTC-7, DFS wrote:
>>>
>>>>>> <https://imgur.com/a/8xuEc7B>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> (I added a little 'lighter' image)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>    
>>>>> Can you see that your 2nd image is a little over-rotated?
>>>>
>>>> At this rate you can't complain!
>>>>
>>>> <https://imgur.com/a/EtTpp9l>
>>>>
>>>> I think it's an optical illusion ;)
>>>
>>>
>>> Maybe, maybe not.
>>>
>>> In a fit of Snit you clipped the 2nd pic.  Why?
>> 
>> Because it actually had a slight rotation issue and wasn't
>> centered as well (and the dark text against those dark
>> backgrounds didn't show up as well).
> 
> 
> "And in next weeks lesson we shall discuss image rotation!"
> ...
> And when the bulb turns on Steve Carroll shall slap himself on the
> forehead.  :)"
> 
> 
> 1) Who said [something very close to ] it?
> 2) In what famous thread?
> 
> 
> 
>>> https://imgur.com/a/8xuEc7B>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>>> I figured you had a ton, trying to prompt Feeb into action.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> A whole .pdf's worth.
>>>>>
>>>>> Feeb changed the background color of a .jpg, but finding those random
>>>>> collections of black pixels and differentiating them from, say, a page
>>>>> number, is probably much more challenging.
>>>>
>>>> As in 'not doable'.
>>>
>>>
>>> Feeb and owl offered up some solutions - I'll try them later.
>> 
>> Neither of them address the stray mark issue. If you have
>> access to the original I'd rescan. If not, it'd take you about
>> a work week's worth of hours with MS paint I'd imagine (to
>> get rid of the stray marks, that is). I tried some layering with
>> different blend modes on channels to see if that might do
>> the trick but I don't think it'd satisfactorily remove 'em. Do
>> all those pages have issues to that same degree (even
>> the text pages)?
> 
> 
> Every page I looked at, some to a high degree.  Did I say it was 1120 
> pages (less front and back cover, which aren't too bad)?
> 
> A fair number of pages have sections like this:
> https://imgur.com/a/akua4AJ
> 

2nd ed. of that book:

http://www.codeman.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Computer_Systems-A_Programmers_Perspective-2e.pdf

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A serious challenge for Feeb DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2019-02-11 19:42 -0500
  Re: A serious challenge for Feeb Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2019-02-11 16:53 -0800
    Re: A serious challenge for Feeb Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2019-02-11 16:57 -0800
      Re: A serious challenge for Feeb DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2019-02-11 20:11 -0500
        Re: A serious challenge for Feeb Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2019-02-11 17:23 -0800
          Re: A serious challenge for Feeb DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2019-02-11 20:39 -0500
            Re: A serious challenge for Feeb Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2019-02-11 17:45 -0800
              Re: A serious challenge for Feeb DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2019-02-11 22:19 -0500
                Re: A serious challenge for Feeb Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2019-02-11 19:50 -0800
                Re: A serious challenge for Feeb DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2019-02-11 23:10 -0500
                Re: A serious challenge for Feeb owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2019-02-12 04:22 +0000
                Re: A serious challenge for Feeb Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2019-02-11 20:32 -0800
                Re: A serious challenge for Feeb Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2019-02-11 20:42 -0800
                Re: A serious challenge for Feeb Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2019-02-12 05:40 +0000
                Re: A serious challenge for Feeb DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2019-02-12 10:40 -0500
                Re: A serious challenge for Feeb owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2019-02-12 16:39 +0000
                Re: A serious challenge for Feeb DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2019-02-12 13:43 -0500
                Re: A serious challenge for Feeb owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2019-02-12 20:18 +0000
                Re: A serious challenge for Feeb DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2019-02-12 19:58 -0500
                Re: A serious challenge for Feeb Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2019-02-13 06:48 -0800
                Re: A serious challenge for Feeb "F. Russell" <frussell@random.info> - 2019-02-13 15:10 +0000
                Re: A serious challenge for Feeb Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2019-02-13 08:02 -0800
                Re: A serious challenge for Feeb Ratchetjaw <ratchetjaw@mail.com> - 2019-02-13 16:28 +0000
                Re: A serious challenge for Feeb Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2019-02-13 09:29 -0800
                Re: A serious challenge for Feeb owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2019-02-12 04:03 +0000
                Re: A serious challenge for Feeb DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2019-02-12 10:56 -0500
                Re: A serious challenge for Feeb DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2019-02-12 10:58 -0500
                Re: A serious challenge for Feeb Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2019-02-12 07:59 -0800
                Re: A serious challenge for Feeb owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2019-02-12 16:37 +0000
                Re: A serious challenge for Feeb Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2019-02-12 08:42 -0800
                Re: A serious challenge for Feeb owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2019-02-12 17:09 +0000
  Re: A serious challenge for Feeb "F. Russell" <fr@random.info> - 2019-02-12 01:27 +0000
  Re: A serious challenge for Feeb owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2019-02-12 02:04 +0000
    Re: A serious challenge for Feeb DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2019-02-11 21:11 -0500
      Re: A serious challenge for Feeb owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2019-02-12 02:19 +0000
        Re: A serious challenge for Feeb DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2019-02-12 09:36 -0500
  Re: A serious challenge for Feeb Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2019-02-12 09:54 +0000
    Re: A serious challenge for Feeb DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2019-02-12 09:30 -0500
      Re: Re: A serious challenge for Feeb Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2019-02-12 15:24 +0000
      Re: A serious challenge for Feeb "F. Russell" <fr@random.info> - 2019-02-12 22:40 +0000
        Re: A serious challenge for Feeb Ratchetjaw <ratchetjaw@mail.com> - 2019-02-12 23:07 +0000
        Re: A serious challenge for Feeb DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2019-02-12 19:53 -0500
          Re: A serious challenge for Feeb "F. Russell" <frussell@random.info> - 2019-02-13 18:15 +0000
    Re: A serious challenge for Feeb Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2019-02-12 07:21 -0800

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