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from: Steven Hirsch
date: 2009-01-29 07:24:30
subject: Re: Apple II interface card schematics

Michael J. Mahon wrote:

>>>>> Those are great.  Unfortunately, the graphic format does not 
>>>>> reproduce legibly
>>>>> when printed.  I dropped him a note to inquire about
vector formats.
>>>>
>>>> If he doesn't have those or will make them available you
could always
>>>> work on the color saturation (with Photo Shop or similar) and tone i
>>>> down to b&w.
>>>
>>> It would be pretty easy to "double" each pixel width
and height,
>>> so that lines would all be two pixels wide, if that helps.
>>
>> I took a quick shot at cleaning up the PNG graphics using 'xv' on 
>> Linux, but nothing really helped.  I don't own (nor do I have any 
>> familiarity with) Photoshop.
> 
> I hadn't tried printing the .png's before, but I just printed the
> 16K RAM card with WinXP's default photo viewer, and it is perfectly
> readable.

Go figure... Neither 'xv' nor the KDE image viewer would produce a legible 
version.  I installed the GIMP and without any fiddling it renders correctly.

Live and learn!

Steve
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