The storage problem may be easier- how about burning them onto a CD-Rom? BH -----Original Message----- From: Landis, Bill @ Phoenix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: MapInfo Mail List 1 (E-mail) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, 16 July 1999 1:50 Subject: RE: MI Aerial Photography - Printing and Storage >Remote sensing details aside, sounds like you are running into the dreaded >MI raster resampling feature. MI can't print 24 bit color at 24 bit to >postscript printers. It resamples the raster to 8 bit to print. That isn't >the problem. The problem is that it uses the Windows color pallet for the >resample, thus your images look like they are at a low resolution, when in >reality they do not have enough colors to properly represent the image. > >Scan your images at 1200 dpi, but if you are going to print them in MI then >you will have to resample them to 8 bit yourself with Photo Editor. Just >make sure that when you resample them you have PE create an optimized >pallet. The images will degrade slightly, but most will not be able to >distinguish the difference. > >You are going to run into the same problem with Mr. Sid files. That is why >I do not believe that Mr. Sid is a good solution for MI. Besides ER Mapper >will give you a better compression tool for free and ER Mapper's format has >plug-ins for MI, AV, AutoCAD, PhotoShop and other apps. But even with ER >Mapper you will run into a printing problem. > >There is a company, Engineering Mapping Solutions that has a good solution. >Their product EMSView is a stand alone viewer that will display your >compressed images as a single image and export them out to all major GIS >apps in 24, 16 and 8 bit TIFFs (world and tab files included). They have >even developed a mbx that will allow you to import an image from within MI. >Their number is (602) 870-7811. > >Hope this helps, > >Bill Landis... >Information Management Director, Global Mapping Services >CB Richard Ellis >P 602 735 5233 F 602 735 5655 >"If at first you do succeed, try not to look astonished." - unknown > > -----Original Message----- > From: Steven Heapy [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 1999 7:15 PM > To: 'MapInfo-L' > Subject: MI Aerial Photography - Printing and Storage > > Our Council has just had some aerial photography flown at >1:5000 and are > investigating at what DPI we should have this scanned at ie >600 or 1200 > DPI > > We are currently testing both, obviously the 1200 requires >more storage > and cost but gives an improved image on the screen and >prints better. > However both images that are printed through MapInfo 5.5 in >the layout > seem to loose a fair amount of quality compared to being >printed in say > Photo Editor. > > Also has anyone used and printed images compressed with Mr >Sid over a NT > network. > > All comments, sugestions and ideas regarding DPI >(resolution), storage > and printing would be appreciate > > Regards > Steve > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] and put > "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put >"unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
