Re: Pics and files
This may be of interest re: PDFs. We recently, maybe 10-11 months ago, bought a very high end office printer/scanner, since we scan over 5000 pages/week and keep/db/archive them all. The new printer
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CNC 6-axis Deisgns
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Re: Pics and files
Yes, I assumed he just flip flopped them. _____ Sent: Monday, July 31, 2017 7:02 PM To: 7x12minilathe Subject: Re: [7x12minilathe] Re: Pics and files
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Michael Jablonski
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Re: Pics and files
7x12minilathe@...> wrote: You have it backwards. Perhaps a typo. *raster* files contain pixels *vector* files contain letters, the same ia with a word processing files,, you can edit and
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Chris Albertson <albertson.chris@...>
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Re: Pics and files
Thanks for that PDF info Michael. I had always assumed somehow that those "vector" types you describe were just stuff that was too old to originate in digital form and thus had been scanned rather
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soffee83
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Re: PDF files
There aren't that many that do both images and text well. Not that the "portable document format" is perfect. Just pretty good for folks who need or want to combine text and images in one file. Works
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wmrmeyers <wmrmeyers@...>
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Re: Pics and files
The confusion here with PDF files is that PDF files can be Vector or Raster. In a Vector based PDF file you can highlight text and copy it as text and paste it into another program. In a Raster based
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Michael Jablonski
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Re: PDF files
Perhaps we can add all of the other type files to this thread too, there are hundreds of file types we all use?
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Jimmy Agar
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Re: Pics and files
PDF files contain images and text, most of the time. Unlike most image files.? Best reason to use PDF files right there. :) Bill in OKC? Sent from my Sprint Phone.
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wmrmeyers <wmrmeyers@...>
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Re: Pics and files
Hi Ralph, <SNIP> If you have a .pdf why do you need a image? </SNIP> The issue arose due to a desire a use a photo hosting site. All the best, Ian
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Ian Newman <ian_new@...>
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Re: Pics and files
True - I needed logo a silkscreen for a Rockwell Collins device I was designing. Needed the color seps of a vector based artwork for a rack unit I was having machined. The only place I could find one
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WAM
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Re: Pics and files
I am intimately familiar with the 1200+ page PDF Specification, as I write programs to read PDFs. They are not image files. They can contain images, but they are not images themselves, they are a
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Ryan Daughtry <rayanth@...>
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Re: Pics and files
actually a .PDF is an image file. If you have a .pdf why do you need a image. Just put it somewhere on the web and do a link to it. .PDF readers are free. Ralph
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Ralph Hulslander
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Re: Pics and files
Mike, I just popped a PDF into my GIMP and imported it as first, layers (no good) and images (okay), but each images gets its own filename even when exporting to TIFF. That means an independent
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fred_dot_u@...
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Re: Pics and files
Mike, PDF is a multi-page format, while JPG/JPEG is not. The former is typically used for documents, while the latter is obviously used for images. Certainly, a document page can be converted to an
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fred_dot_u@...
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Re: Pics and files
No. Only attachments included in the posts pose a problem for dial up connections. Photo and file storage areas are a separate concern. 7x12minilathe@...> wrote:
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mario mohl
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Re: Pics and files
Maybe a bit of an understatement. ;-) Thanks for the Hobby Machinist tip though Dick. Somehow that wasn't one of the places that shows up a lot on Google. Looks good! Signed up yesterday. Take Care
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soffee83
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Re: Pics and files
This is actually a interesting thread. The poster who said they were still on dial-up internet access really got my attention. Obviously for such a user they cannot tolerate embedded images so they
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Ralph Hulslander
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Re: Pics and files
The only thing I would like to say about that is that with every external provider ( dropbox google and so ) there is the risk to loose images and so on. As it has happened with flickr photobucket and
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pigifly
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Re: Pics and files
I've done this myself for single images that fit on the visible screen. But what do you do if, say, you want to turn a 20 page pdf document into a jpg? I'd that what GIMP can do? Mike Taglieri
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Miket_NYC
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Re: CNCZEUS is now Open source
You have figured out why it is not good to use proprietary tools for open source projects. But in the author's favor this was not intended to be open source until the software became so old that it
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Chris Albertson <albertson.chris@...>
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