Berkeley Enterprises 1956 Report

From: John Foust <jfoust_at_threedee.com>
Date: Mon Jan 11 08:47:01 1999

At 01:29 AM 1/11/99 -0600, Doug Yowza wrote:
>
>I have the plans for Magdum, and it's about 30 pages of hand-drawn
>schematics. Does anybody know of a way to convert a raster scan of this
>kind of stuff to some sort of vectorized format (maybe EPS)?

There are methods of scanning blueprints and converting them to CAD
formats, but these programs are expensive and esoteric, and I'm not
sure how much hand-drawing they tolerate. There are common methods
of auto-tracing for illustration purposes. PhotoShop, for example,
can trace a bitmap and export the path as an Adobe Illustrator file,
a form of EPS.

However, these AI/EPS files are ASCII, meaning they'll
take up as much (or more) space than a mono TIFF. What's your objective?
Distribution of the images? I say leave them as scans. Autotracing and
cleanup of 30 pages would consume days. How would you view EPS/AI files?
Tools for viewing and printing bitmaps are far more common and easier
to use than tools that handle EPS/AI. (I know about Ghostscript.)

- John
Received on Mon Jan 11 1999 - 08:47:01 GMT