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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: orange on September 21, 2005, 02:19:21 PM

Title: various diagrams vectorized in Corel
Post by: orange on September 21, 2005, 02:19:21 PM

Ok, this is a bit offtopic..
I have been playing with Corel and trying to 'vectorize' or 'trace' manually some images from Amiga manuals. Its very boring task, so its not finished yet. But if you are interested, here are the results so far:


link (http://qrange.t35.com/Amiga.htm)


and the originals are here:

link (http://www.shiftreload.com.au/users/4x4/schematics/index.html)

( a500_2000trm_1.zip  and    a500_2000trm_2.zip )

contact me if you feel sudden need to draw the rest of those pages in Corel..  :-)

Title: Re: various diagrams vectorized in Corel
Post by: motrucker on September 22, 2005, 05:49:14 AM

I hate to bring this up, but why? There are much easier ways to accomplish this...........

Title: Re: various diagrams vectorized in Corel
Post by: orange on September 22, 2005, 08:11:55 AM

and why not? most of scanned Amiga things (schematics, manuals..etc) are:

1) few, hard to find (compared to other computers)
2) low res -> hard to read
3) sooner or later you will need them badly

I just thought it will be useful to some. It is the future, and not JPG text scans  :pissed:
Of course best solution would be getting it in original form, assuming they used word processors in those days.
Did you mean djvu by easier, or what? please tell.. :-)

Title: Re: various diagrams vectorized in Corel
Post by: Waccoon on September 22, 2005, 08:35:33 AM

potrace.sourceforge.net (http://potrace.sourceforge.net)

A number of font-ends are available.  Here's one for Java:  delineate.sourceforge.net (http://delineate.sourceforge.net)

Title: Re: various diagrams vectorized in Corel
Post by: orange on September 22, 2005, 08:51:49 AM

thanks for the tip, I'll try it; but I know it won't be nearly as good as hand drawn.. and it probably doesn't OCR text on picture.

Title: Re: various diagrams vectorized in Corel
Post by: Will-i-am on September 24, 2005, 04:00:58 PM

It's not overly hard to trace over bitmaps in a good vector program, especially if you're a decent drafter. CorelDraw is just a CADD program, really, in some repsects. I have done much the same thing back in the day, trying to show my boss than an Amiga would be handy in our civil engineering work. I used Microstation (it's like Autocad) to trace scanned pics of maps and type over text blocks using different layers and then exported the results in DXF format so I could suck them into Dynacadd and Caligari24 in my Amiga. I also downloaded DEM files from USGS and rendered them in Vistapro. I never got any good use out of the ocr packages, though. Even the good ones back then sucked hugely.

Title: Re: various diagrams vectorized in Corel
Post by: X-ray on September 25, 2005, 09:32:06 AM

@ Waccoon

Thanks very much for that link.