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From: baumgart@esquire.dpw.com (Steve Baumgarten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Problem with Aldus Freehand
Keywords: Freehand, bitmaps, memory
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Date: 24 Oct 89 17:54:56 GMT
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In article <3490@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> leue@galen.crd.ge.com (Bill Leue) writes:
>Briefly, there seems to be some arbitrary (and low) limit on the size of
>a bitmap that I can import.  I scanned some material at various resolutions
>from 75dpi to 300dpi using an Apple scanner and one-bit-per-pixel, and saved
>them as PICT II.  MacDraw II cheerfully imports any and all of these large
>bitmaps, but Freehand always complains about too little memory.  Even
>a quite modestly-sized bitmap, only about 3"x4" at 75 dpi, wouldn't load.
>
>Whasamatta dis program??!??  I had heard various reports about problems
>with Applescan's PICT format, so I imported it into MacDraw II and 

One problem I've had with AppleScan is that if you ask it to save the
document, it saves *the whole page*, including any blank areas around
the part of the page you're really interested in.  I had a small 2x2"
logo that I scanned at 300dpi; when I selected "Save", the resulting
file was almost 300K.  "Save selection", however, with just the logo
selected, created a much smaller file that I then had no trouble
working with.

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