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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

> You can also use Xvesa or Xfbdev on BL2. Of course, the only reason that
> would be necessary is if you don't want to configure a hi-res X server.
> What's nice about BL3, though, is that you have a ready-to-run distribution
> for X, and you only have to install one package for most X applications.
> Therefore, everything is small and simple, just the way it should be.

I AM using Xvesa with BL2.  After a few weeks of fiddling to get it to 
work, I can now just move it around between computers to any video card 
(except some laptops with Chips and Technologies).  BL3 was certainly 
easier, and if you add a later glibc it will do almost as much as BL2.

 >
> > My HP scanner scans at 8.5" x 11.69" and you can adjust the width and
> > height by fractions of a milliter but the closest I could get to the
> > required size for pbmtoppa was too pixels too short (or else too
> > large - when I am oversize I don't get told what size file I tried to
> > send it).  I narrowed it in between two pixel sizes.
>
> Isn't it possible to add something to your script to resize it before
> sending it to pbmtoppa?

The maintainer of netpbm suggested a cropping program.  I will try 
shortening the 11.69" scanned page to 11" if there is some way to crop 1 
pixel at a time.  I would need to make it 414 pixels shorter for US Letter 
size.  Scanjet works in multiples of 1.52588e-05 mm instead of pixels.

After I learn to crop then I can try to scale a 200 dpi pbm into a 600 dpi 
pgm and then back to a pbm (hopefully not a fuzzy one again) so I can 
print the things sent me by people who think scanners are 'pdf machines'.

pamscale is a newer replacement for pnmscale.  Maybe it will preserve pbm?

One other option is a DOS viewer (pictview), which scales things up, but 
is quite slow since DOS uses memory inefficiently.  No fun doing this to 
100 pages before printing.

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Cute.

> David
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