Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2271 mails)

[Fred Miller <fmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 25 April 2004 1:26 am, Stanley Long wrote:

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> > This discussion proves that there are a lot of us who are trying to do
> > high end graphics and photo production with Linux, and therefore there
> > needs to be a LOT more effort put into this area.
>
> Yep, I just took in a Calcomp ScanPlus 1000 (36" wide drawing scanner).

Hehehehe.......nice!

> I could assemble some little window-box w/ a scsi card for it, but
> prefer that it run from one of my window-less Linux workstations.
> Does the VueScan guy read this list?

'Don't know, but hope so.

> The "D" and "E" size construction project documents from my VariCAD go
> to an Oce' machine at http://www.digital-blueprint.com
>
> There are serious things being produced on Linux desktop machines.

Yes, there are, and I'm excited about the future! Gimp has come a long way. 
There's much that can be done with it, even though more than 8-bit won't be 
supported for AT LEAST a year from now, from what I've been told. Gimp is 
also VERY slow in sending images to the printer.

Fred

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