I am in the process vertorizing dozens of early geologic maps. it is not an easy task. I do the following steps
scan at 300 or 400 dip (grey scale or color - never just black and white) and save in jpeg (sometimes tiff for very large files - I found a Kinkos that charges me $20 per scan period (either color or B&W, up to 36 inch width and any length). clean up the images in photoshop (remove grey background, make blacks black and whites white, etc, get rid of dot patterns or anything that is not a line). this part can take hours and hours I then use adobe streamline. It does a good job for line art. the only problem is that it creats lots of individual line segements (caused by the raster lines that have uneven thickeness, etc) that have to be connected. If there are just a few lines, I open the image up in illustrator, create an additional layer and trace over the original image (sometimes this is the fastest, easiest way to go). I would love to automate the process, but have never been able to do it (each image is just too different). good luck s. figuers _______________________________________________________________________ List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MapInfo-L" in the message body.
